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24 female volunteers – between 28 and 45 and with regular sex partners – were recruited for the Chinese study, published in the journal Sexual Medicine in august All the women involved suffered from sexual dysfunction, or persistent problems that prevent a person from experiencing satisfaction from sexual activity, which is thought to affect approximately 43% of women and 31% of men in the US.
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For the study, which ran between October 2018 and February 2022, the women underwent two to three 30-minute sessions a week, with acupuncture needles inserted into the top of the head, abdomen, above the ovaries, below the knee, on the ankle. , foot and lower back.
The women were instructed to answer questions before and after acupuncture treatments, which the Mayo Clinic describes as a traditional Chinese medicine technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force in your body by applying acupuncture needles to target areas of the body.
Using the Female Sexual Function Index, a way to measure how pleasurable and satisfying sex is for women, they rated subjective sensation, sexual desire, sexual arousal, vaginal lubrication, orgasm, sexual satisfaction and dyspareunia (vaginal pain).
After treatment, all women saw an improvement in theirFSFI theirs. In fact, desire was the biggest improvement, with 23 out of 24 women saying they noticed a difference and 100% of the group saying they were more aroused.
Although it appears to be an effective treatment, experts at the Zhouzhuang Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Shandong, where the study took place, admitted they are not 100% sure why it seems to increase libido, but said they believe it does. Something to do with acupuncture to increase estrogen.
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