Over the past few decades, fertility rates have dropped in the "Western" world. The inability to conceive has given rise to numerous treatment plans. While Western medicine advocates the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF), intrauterine insemination (IUI), donor sperm or egg transfers and other reproductive technologies, success rates are not always optimal. People have increasingly searched for alternatives to improve their results. Of all the alternative health systems, TCM appears to have the highest rate of success for infertility.