Melody Turnbull, a longtime acupuncturist in the Boulder, Colorado area, has announced that her office is ready to serve the needs of couples who specifically seek to bear multiple children by using acupuncture for fertility.
(prHWY.com) August 14, 2012 - Seattle, WA -- Melody Turnbull, a longtime acupuncturist in the Boulder, Colorado area, has announced that her office is ready to serve the needs of couples who specifically seek to bear multiple children by using acupuncture for fertility. Turnbull is owner and chief practitioner at Needle Knows Acupuncture.
"Through years of admittedly trial-and-error efforts, my team has found the right combination of acupuncture and herbal treatments to spark not just an infertile couple's ability to have a child, but to have many children at one time," Turnbull told reporters.
The head of a four-person practice at Needle Knows, Turnbull said she has had several client couples bear triplets and at least one
quadruple-child birth after coming to her for fertility difficulties. Patient confidentiality rules prevented her from identifying the couples, she said.
One mother who spoke to the press about her experiences was Joan Johnson, a housewife from Silverton, Colorado. "Jason and I had tried and tried for years, with no luck. I think the difficulty made me determined to have twins at least. Dr. Turnbull made it happen for us!" The Johnsons have 2-year-olds named Harley and Judith.
With roots in ancient China, for more than 3,000 years acupuncture has employed needles inserted at strategic points along the body's energy pathways to stimulate the "ch'i" or "qi," as Chinese acupuncturists refer to the energy flow. Increasingly popular in the West in recent decades, acupuncture has been paired with herbal medicine to address everything from smoking cessation and weight loss to infertility issues.
But up to now, no one has claimed the ability to guarantee multiple births without the use of traditional fertility drugs such as gonadotropins or clomiphene. Other specialists in the field say Turnbull enjoys the general respect of her peers, but they expressed doubts about her latest claim.
"Melody is an excellent practitioner," said Ron Tackersley, who added that he attended the American Academy of Acupuncture with Turnbull. Tackersley now heads the Alternative Medicine program at Everglades University.
"She was at the top of our class, and I've heard nothing but good things about her work in the field ever since. But bringing a child to term is risky enough for couples with a history of infertility. I'd have to see more to know whether she's been able to pull this off."
Turnbull says skeptics and critics will come around as more infertile couples undergo the regimen and choose to go public with the happy results. "I recognize we're pushing the frontiers of health treatment here, but when the outcome of acupuncture for fertility can be so positive, that can't be anything but good."
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