Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China.
First Affiliated Hospital, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Oct 18;13:1009537. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1009537. eCollection 2022.
Fertility, a social, cultural, and medical issue, has aroused public attention because of its potential to predict future health. In recent years, the incidence of male infertility has increased significantly, and various risk factors, such as congenital factors, acquired factors, and idiopathic factors, have led to this situation. Male infertility causes substantial psychological and social distress in patients. With the implementation of the two-child policy, male infertility has brought enormous psychological and social pressure and huge economic burden to patients and the healthcare system. This has attracted the attention of not only men of childbearing age but also many male experts. The conventional therapeutic approaches for treating male infertility, including drugs, varicocele surgery, intrauterine insemination, fertilization, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection, can restore fertility to a certain extent, but their efficacy is far from satisfactory, not to mention some adverse events. Therefore, acupuncture has been chosen by many men to treat their infertility and produced significant effects. In the present paper, the efficacy and mechanism of acupuncture in the treatment of male infertility were analyzed from different perspectives such as regulating hormone secretion, reducing inflammation, and improving semen parameters. The existing literature shows that acupuncture can effectively treat male infertility.
生育问题是一个涉及社会、文化和医学的问题,由于其可能预测未来的健康状况,因此引起了公众的关注。近年来,男性不育的发病率显著增加,各种风险因素,如先天因素、后天因素和特发性因素,导致了这种情况。男性不育会给患者带来巨大的心理和社会困扰。随着二孩政策的实施,男性不育给患者和医疗体系带来了巨大的心理和社会压力以及经济负担。这不仅引起了育龄男性的关注,也引起了许多男性专家的关注。治疗男性不育的常规方法包括药物治疗、精索静脉曲张手术、宫腔内人工授精、受精和胞浆内精子注射等,这些方法可以在一定程度上恢复生育能力,但疗效远不尽如人意,更不用说一些不良反应了。因此,许多男性选择针灸来治疗不育症,并取得了显著的效果。本文从调节激素分泌、减轻炎症和改善精液参数等不同角度分析了针灸治疗男性不育的疗效和机制。现有文献表明,针灸可以有效治疗男性不育。
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