Increasing evidence shows that acupuncture therapy may have a role in promoting fertilization.Authors of the present paper collected the related articles in English published from January 2003 to May 2013 in databases of Ovid Medline

Maternity and Infant Care and Medline(Pubmed)

and made an analysis.Results of many randomized controlled clinical trials(RCT)indicated that acupuncture intervention had a positive role in raising pregnancy rate

fetus surviving rate of the transplanted embryo

and increasing the neuropeptide Y content in the ollicular fluid in patients experiencing embryo transplantation

and in raising survival rate of zygote

conception rate of embryo transplantation

and in improving azoospermia in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.But many systematic reviews and Meta-analysis did not support the above-mentioned conclusion of acupuncture therapy about promoting fertilization.The authors hold that despite of dominated positive outcomes of RCT for acupuncture-assisted fertilization

further well designed RCT are still warranted for providing further definite and convincing evidence.