Dr Snell helps women conceive

A doctor who claims to achieve a remarkable 87 per cent success rate helping women in Australia to become pregnant has explained how he does it with herbal medicine and acupuncture.

Dr Kenneth Snell, of the Acupuncture IVF and Fertility Clinic in Sydney, says he administers special Chinese medicine and acupuncture to facilitate in vitro fertilization (IVF).

He says his special treatment program has helped achieve an 87 per cent success rate for pregnancies.

His rate of 87 per cent compares favourably with typical rates of less than 40 per cent for most IVF programs.

Dr Snell says, "I have proven with studies which I have conducted with the cooperation of patients at my clinic over recent years, that my treatment program facilitates a much higher success rate for in vitro fertilisation."

Dr Snell has also achieved high success rates with women over forty, including women who have failed IVF before or have been told that they will not conceive due to their eggs being too old.

He explains his fertility treatment saying, "Chinese medicine is taken over more than one cycle usually. Western medicine tries to achieve a result within one cycle, although a lot of women fail their IVF cycles and return for multiple IVF treatments unsuccessfully.

"So in the long run, Chinese medicine taken over a few cycles is usually quicker and more effective," he says.

"It also requires fewer doses of IVF drugs which often have harmful and long-lasting side effects. Chinese medicine is safe and natural and has no side effects," he says. "Its good effects are greatly enhanced when combined with acupuncture."

Chinese medicine is the main form of fertility treatment in his clinic. Acupuncture is always used as a secondary treatment to increase the effects produced by Chinese medicine.

His specialised treatment programs are used to enhance fertility.

He treats simple hormonal imbalances and more debilitating kinds of gynaecological problems which prevent women from conceiving.

He administers natural Chinese medicine and acupuncture to a woman for three to five months until the embryo is transferred into her uterus.

After the transfer, he administers different natural Chinese medicines and more acupuncture to prevent threatened abortion and miscarriage.

He says, "This medicine facilitates easier transfer of the embryo into the uterus by dilating the cervical opening, nourishes the embryo facilitating embryo growth, prevents uterine contractions, prevents bleeding and holds the embryo in place."

Dr Snell says his acupuncture and Chinese medicine are vastly different to other doctors in technique and medicine composition.

Best results are achieved when acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are prescribed together, he says.

During the course of treatment, the Chinese herbal medicine is routinely changed to achieve maximum results. The patient is never kept on the same medicine.

Depending on the time of the menstrual cycle, the acupuncture treatment is also changed to achieve maximum results.

Dr Snell says his special treatments achieve fast results for infertility and fertility-related conditions. "Patients notice improvements in the first few weeks of treatment."

Dr Snell operates the Acupuncture IVF and Fertility Clinic at Chatswood in Sydney. He has owned and operated the clinic since 2004.

He is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.

Patients from across Australia and different countries seek his advice and received his treatment.

Dr Kenneth Snell has been acknowledged in the press and on radio and television in Australia, Korea and England and on the internet world wide.

He is a member of the Fertility Society of Australia, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association.

Natural fertility is a specialised area of his training.