Acupuncture in Pregnancy

Editorial Acupuncture may be an excellent tool for pregnancy. Moreover, much of its acceptance by scientific community is due to the pioneers well designed studies which demonstrated that it could be effective in gravidic nauseas [1]. Acupuncture can be used in antenatal period, in deliverance and postnatal. In deliverance, it is used experimentally as an optional and complementar tecnique for analgesia [2]. It can be also used before conception, both to increase the chance of a normal pregnancy and improve rates of artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization [3]. The use of acupuncture in the obstetrics pathologies of pregnancy like miscarriage threat and Specific Hypertensive Disease of Pregnancy is understudied although Betts et al. [4] call attention for the use in the first case. The relative success in treating Essential Hypertension in other kind of patients [5] may be a stimulus for its use in the secon