Earlier this year, I was working with a 36-year-old patient who was having trouble getting pregnant. She did not want to put any medications into her body, and she asked me if there were alternatives to hormonal therapy. I asked her a question I once never would have thought to ask: Had she considered acupuncture? I attended medical school at The Ohio State University, steeped in a Western practice known as allopathic medicine. Any exposure to Eastern medicine was limited. Which brings me back…

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