A Literature Review of Women’s Sex Hormone Changes by Acupuncture Treatment: Analysis of Human and Animal Studies

Table 4

Changes in other hormones by acupuncture treatment.

					Changes in hormone level
Author	Year	Subject	Condition	Number of sample (exp/con)	Disease	Acupuncture compared to	Acupuncture method
						disease
Feng et al.	2012	Animal (rat)	PCOS	8/8	▽ Progesterone	▲ Progesterone	EA+MA
Pastore et al.	2011	Human	PCOS	40/44	▲ Testosterone	≒ Testosterone	MA
Stener-Victorin et al.	2000	Human	PCOS	24	▽ Prolactin	▲ Prolactin	EA
Yao et al.	2007	Animal (rat)	Ovariectomized	8/8	▽ PrRP	▲ Brain PrRP	EA
Zhao et al.	2003	Animal (rat)	Ovariectomized	10/12	▽ GnRH	▲GnRH	EA
Dong et al.	2001	Human	Menopausal syndrome	11	▽ Progesterone,; ▽ Prolactin	≒ Progesterone,; ≒ Prolactin	MA
Xiong et al.	2015	Animal (rat)	Embryo implantation dysfunction	6/6	▽ Progesterone,; ▽ Prolactin	▲ Progesterone,; ▲ Prolactin	MA
Magarelli et al.	2009	Human	in vitro fertilization	34/33	▽ hCG,; ▽ Prolactin	▲ hCG, ▲ Prolactin	N/A
Gaudernack et al.	2006	Human	Labour	48/52	N/A	▽ need of oxytocin	MA
Uvnäs-Moberg et al.	1993	Animal (rat)	Normal	6/6	N/A	▲ oxytocin	EA
Yang et al.	2006	Animal (rat)	Analgesia	6/7	▽ oxytocin	≒ oxytocin	EA
Yang et al.	2006	Animal (rat)	Analgesia	9/9	▽ oxytocin	≒ oxytocin	EA

▲ Increased, ▽ decreased, ≒ not significant, and N/A; not applicable.