Men’s Health Alternative Medicine
Treating Men's Health
Gender Issues At Silverlake Acupuncture
If you are a transgender, nonbinary, or gender-fluid person or otherwise do not consider yourself conform to traditional gender norms, we welcome you. We make our best effort to use your preferred terminology when communicating with you to reduce any barriers to your care. If you currently have biologically male anatomy, we can help with your health concerns regardless of your gender expression.
Acupuncture Treats Men’s Health Issues
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine effectively treat a number of male health concerns. The goal of all treatments is to restore the inherent health of the human body, so you won’t require treatment or herbal medicine forever.
Men’s Health In Oriental Medicine
Andrology is a relatively new specialty in Oriental Medicine, but men have received specialized treatment for maintaining their health for at least 700 years before the common era. Modern acupuncturists combine this wealth of ancient knowledge with Western science and medicine to take an integrative approach to men’s health.
How Does Acupuncture Treat Men’s Health Conditions?
When the natural rhythms, ebbs and flows, and cycles of life are out of sync, disease arises. Acupuncture and herbal medicine are used to restore balance to the body.
Men Have Major Concerns
About Their Sexual Health And Fertility
Many men will encounter a condition affecting sex drive, sexual function and fertility at some point in their lifetime. While uncomfortable to some, it’s important to speak frankly about them and communicate all the concerns and details of your condition. Many of the issues men have about their sexual health can be resolved through treatment with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. I see patients with these concerns routinely, and also see remarkable changes that last.
The sexual health and fertility conditions I see most often in the clinic and their most common symptoms are:
- Erectile dysfunction (ED or “impotence”): Difficulty getting and maintaining an erection and lowered sexual desire, and the emotional component involved.
- Low libido or low sex drive: A decreased desire to have sex.
- Premature ejaculation (PE): early ejaculation or ejaculating before it is desired.
- Male Factor Infertility or Subfertility: Male factor infertility is the umbrella category for any cause of infertility due to the biologically male partner. There are many causes of male factor infertility which result in changes to sperm, as mentioned below.
- Low sperm count or oligospermia: Low sperm count is classified as having fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen. This is a common cause of infertility in males.
- Poor sperm morphology or teratospermia: This means that the sperm have an abnormal shape. This can negatively affect fertility, and make it difficult to conceive a child.
- Low sperm motility: this means that most of the sperm moves inefficiently in a non-progressive manner, or not at all.
- Urinary Dribbling: This is sometimes referred to urinary incontinence or post-micturition. Urinary dribbling is an involuntary dripping or leakage of urine from the bladder. It is the result of loss of bladder control, and can affect men of any age.
- Prostatitis: The symptoms of prostatitis include painful or difficult urination and pain in the perineum, groin or lower body. It can be chronic or acute, bacterial or non-bacterial. Pain during ejaculation is a common symptom.
If you have any of these issues, or something else not mentioned here, call Silverlake Acupuncture. We treat Men’s Health issues with Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and have been doing so since 2006. Call us at (323) 662-6560 to make an appointment or use our online appointment system.
