Ihave been undergoing acupuncture treatment for infertility since a week. is it cause for my gastric problem?

i am undergoing acupuncture treatment for infertility since a week, after three failed IVF's. however my acupuncturist is not much experienced with treating infertility. since my treatment, i have had severe gastric problems, followed by loose motion. can acupuncture be the cause? my diet is very restricted, though i did have fried rice on one ocassion

Yes and no. Hard to answer without a more detailed description of the treatment and the problems your experiencing.

This would depend heavily on your pattern, the treatment principle being used, and whether or not you have a history of gastrointestinal problems, in addition too depending on what you're eating, and your emotional state preceding these problems.

For example, saying your on a very restricted diet, implies that you have a medical history of GI issues (such as a low acid diet for chronic gastric ulcers, or a low residue diet for a history of intestinal diverticulum or diverticulitis), or that you're doing something rather severe for another reason, which could also be a contributing factor to GI disturbances. (Being on the master cleanse in an attempt to detoxify the body can easily produce GI disturbance and loose stools) So, yeah what's the diet?

It can be common when using acupuncture to treat poor bowel circulation for a patient to experience borborygmus (rumbling bowels, aka stomach growling) and have a bowel movement after receiving acupuncture treatment, but again this is usually limited to treatments deliberatly intended to promote bowel movement.

The best course of action would be to keep your acupuncturist aware of all changes that are happening with your body during the course of treatment, which would definatly include these problems.

Other than that, your question is pretty much impossible to answer accurately without an informed picture of your medical history, a detailed description of these gastric problems, and a detailed description of this very restricted diet, as well as the reasoning to why you're on it.

Essentially, the traditional chinese medical differential diagnosis of loose stools is limited to cases of excess dampness, or a yang deficiency of the spleen or kidney. If this is accompanied by pain, that would also indicate the stagnation of qi and or blood, depending upon the quality of pain. For example, dull pain with a cold sensation in the abdomen and loose stools where the pain is worse after a bowel movement and the patient has little to no desire to eat would indicate deficiency of spleen yang with stagnation of qi.

Its possible if the pattern was misdiagnosed that an improper treatment principle (such as using heavy dispersing to dissolve stagnation in a patient whose stagnation is being caused by an underlying deficiency) could lead to such gastric distress, but its also possible that its due to other factors or even a combination of all of them, such as diet, emotional changes, or the stress of being unable to accomplish something you want with all your being to accomplish, such as conceiving life.

Also, did you start taking any new medications this week? This includes prescribed pharmacueticals, over the counter supplements, and any herbal formulas that may have been prescribed by your acupuncturist.