YOUR long-married but not yet blessed with children? Try doing acupuncture therapy.

Having kids is a dream of all those who have a family. However, not all couples have children easily. No wonder they're willing to spend millions and even billions of dollars for treatment.

Now there's good news for couples who dream of having baby. One of them, or acupuncture therapy acupuncture. Scientists from the University of Maryland Medicine, United States (U.S.), states, acupuncture can be used to help the process of pregnancy.

Some experts also believe acupuncture fertility is giving hope. Besides cheap and simple, traditional methods of acupuncture to be very useful. The results of this study published in the scientific journal British Medical Journal (BMJ), this weekend.

However, doctors at the fertility clinic Baton Rouge LA William Gibbons stated, the theory of acupuncture is still doubtful to help the process of pregnancy.

"I have not seen the evidence. However, if this were proven to help fertility, I would not mind," he explained.

Lead researcher Eric Manheimer said, was the main benefits of acupuncture to control pain and reduce stress. While in the treatment of fertility problems, acupuncture can increase blood flow to the uterus, cervix relax making, and inhibit stress hormones that can interfere with the process of embryo to fetus.

Based on a poll of 1366 women in the U.S., Germany, Australia, and Danish, acupuncture was helping to mix the sperm and egg into an embryo in the womb.

In this study, some women get treatment in vitro fertilization (IVF), some combination of IVF and acupuncture the day before embryo transfer.

When the results of this small study together, the researchers found that the barriers to pregnancy disappeared in 65 percent of women who undergo acupuncture. However, experts warn, the results were not fully able to be concluded that acupuncture really can help fertility. IVF technique helps pregnancy about 35 percent, plus acupuncture chance of pregnancy to 45 percent.

Because of that, until now the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has not issued a policy related to pregnancy acupuncture therapy. Because, according to the ASRM spokesperson Eleanor Nicoll, many research results that show the pros and cons related to the benefits of acupuncture. Some say acupuncture can provide benefits, some states are useless.

Fertility Treatment Director at New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center said Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, the report at a meeting of medical experts concluded that acupuncture is not considered to help fertility.

In contrast to Dr Ann Treviño, 37, who lives in Houston. She believed acupuncture benefits. She has failed three times the experience has a way of intrauterine insemination, and then she tried acupuncture and IVF technique in fertility clinics in San Antonio. The result, now she is pregnant.

"I used to do a lot of reading about acupuncture, just as most people who read from the Internet. Then, I tried it because I really want to improve the chance to get pregnant. With acupuncture, I feel warm and relaxed when the embryo implanted,''she said.