Complementary Medicine & Infertility

At the Berkley Center For Reproductive Wellness & Women's Health we understand the enormous emotional, physical and spiritual impact that presents as a result of conception difficulties.

Our mission is to help you achieve your goal of conception and full term pregnancy.

We provide a safe, warm and compassionate environment offering a personal and caring relationship for each and every one of our patients. We understand that caring and nurturing are just as important to your success as medicine and procedures.

In addition to providing expert treatment through the administration of acupuncture and customized herbal medicine, our team consists of a wonderful nutritionist, a Maya abdominal massage therapist, a certified yoga instructor and a clinical social-worker and hypnotherapist and a reproductive endocrinologist. All experts in fertility.

We know from experience that a team oriented approach always works best. It is our philosophy that through an integrated approach to reproductive wellness, patients will have the best outcome possible.

We invite you to join our family so we can help you start yours.

Warmest wishes,

Mike Berkley, Licensed Acupuncturist

Doctor of Acupuncture (RI)
Director

www.berkleycenter.com

212-685-0985

Acupuncture & Infertility

Learn all about how acupuncture, herbal medicine, yoga, nutrition, meditation and maya abdominal massage increase the fertility quotient.

Learn More about Acupuncture & Infertility Here.: Get comprehensive information about pathologies that cause infertility such as PCOS, elevated fsh, blocked tubes, endometriosis, poor sperm parameters and more and how we have been successfully treating them for 10 years.

Gain access to a multitude of studies about infertility and complementary methods of treatment.

Traditional Chinese Medicine & Infertility

Diagnostic Window - East Meets West

One Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis which exists and which may be etiologic for male or female infertility is called Liver qi stagnation. One of the key identifiers of an individual with the pattern differentiation of Liver qi stagnation is anger, rage, frustration, depression and anxiety.

"Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and anger may help in determining the nature of infertility experienced by some couples, and identify those who would benefit most from psychological counseling, suggest researchers.

Dr. Secondo Fassino (University School of Medicine, Turin, Italy) and colleagues recorded the personal characteristics of 156 infertile and 80 fertile couples, and measured their degree of psychopathology. When the researchers divided the couples according to the nature of the infertility-organic, functional, or undetermined-they found that the triad of anxiety, depression, and a tendency toward anger suppression successfully predicted the diagnosis of organic or functional infertility in women, with 97 percent accuracy.

For infertile men, anxiety was also an important independent predictor of functional infertility, increasing the likelihood of having this form of infertility five-fold, while depression was more predictive of organic infertility. However, with men - unlike women - anger did not appear to influence infertility in men.

Herbal Medicine

The efficacy of herbal medicine in treating infertility is indisputable to the patient community although the mechanism of action is not completely understood at this time. Similarly the mechanism of action of tricyclic antidepressants is not fully understood in its effect on chronic pain (i.e., in the case of fibromyalgia), but its efficacy has been maintained.

I have used herbal formulae repeatedly to lower elevated FSH levels, to regulate irregular menstrual cycles, to mitigate pain in the endometriosis patient; to mitigate pain in the patient who presents with ovulation and/or menstruation related migraines; to thicken an unresponsive endometrium; to treat the amenorrheic; the oligomenorrheic patient; to treat patients with partial tubal occlusion; and the patient who presents with idiopathic infertility. Additionally, I have successfully treated male factor infertility, which includes presentations such as low sperm count and poor motility.

Complementary medicine and Western methods used together provide greater pregnancy rates.

How to Get Here

New York City, Westchester & Brooklyn Locations.

If you don't live near any of our locations, please remember that we offer telephone consultations.
212-685-0985

Great Books & DVD's on Infertility

Fertile XX (50ml) - Herbal Formula for Enhanced Female Reproductive Health and Fertility

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Fertile XY (50ml) - Herbal Formula for Enhanced Male Fertility

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Curing Infertitlity / TIME Cover: September 30, 1991, Art Poster by TIME Magazine

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Infertility:Exploring the Male Factor

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Infertility: The New Solutions

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Infertility at Time of Diagnosis

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Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)

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Baby Mama

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Children of Men (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

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Adoption: Worth the wait 6 Toddler T-Shirt

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The Fertility SuperStore

Books, Vitamins and other helpful products to help you on your journey!

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