In a study from Israel, 16 patients with subfertility related to sperm impairment were treated with acupuncture twice a week for 5 weeks and compared to a control group. The sperm motility and intactness of the axonema were greatly increased in the study group.

Siterman S, Eltes F, Wolfson V, Zabludovsky N, Bartoov B. ‘Effect of acupuncture on sperm parameters of males suffering from subfertility related to low sperm quality’. Arch Androl. 1997 Sep-Oct; 39(2):155-61.