For women trying to get pregnant, acupuncture and herbal medicine promote conception by boosting blood flow to the pelvic organs. This provides a woman with more nourishment, normalizes FSH levels, balances estrogen and progesterone levels, and improves and strengthens the uterine lining, thus promoting conception and a healthy, full-term pregnancy (see Infertility).

For women in menopause, acupuncture and herbal medicine not only eliminate hot flashes, night sweats and sugar cravings, but also promote weight loss and better sleep patterns, relieve pain and emotional stress, and stabilize mood swings. They also minimize osteoporosis and poor mental function. Studies have shown that acupuncture and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) produce comparable changes in estrogen levels, but that only acupuncture increases the level of both thyroid stimulating hormone, which speeds up metabolism, and testosterone (the male hormone), which may help prevent breast cancer and bone density loss.