Acupuncture in pregnancy.

Abstract

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 second case, but there is not enough clinical experience yet.