<p style="text-align: center;">Rinaldo Rinaldi^1-2, Filomena Petti^1-2, Bangrazi Sergio^1-2, Liguori Stefano¹, Laura Silli¹</p><p style="text-align: center;">1Istituto Paracelso, Rome, Italy;&nbsp; 2Post-Graduate Acupuncture Master, “Sapienza” State University, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy;</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Objective. The spermatozoid abnormality is the main cause of male infertility, mostly due to oligospermia often associated with dymorphysm and hypomotility of spermatozoa. In recent years, the authors adopted a particular therapeutic approach combining tuina with acupuncture-moxibustion to treat male infertility, with encouraging results.</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Materials and methods. Since May, 2013 till December, 2016, 10 cases ranging in age between 32 and 44 years, married since 1-7 years and suffering from male infertility, were treated combining tuina (stable pressing technique - anfa) continuously applied for 30 minutes on Huiyin (CV1) - alternated with direct moxibustion with 5 moxa cones on the same acupoint - with acupuncture on Guanyuan (CV4), Zhongji (CV3), Zusanli (ST36), etc. performed with the warming-needle technique.The above combined procedure was applied once every other day, 3 times a week; 21 sessions were a therapeutic course.</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Results. After 1 course of treatment, the number and activity of spermatozoa increased to a certain extent (30%-40%) in 7 cases (70%); a little bit (around 20%) in 1 patient, who decided to proceed with the treatment; no change in 2 cases, who withdrew from the trial. After the 2nd-3rd course, out of the above 8 treated patients 7 (87,5%) had a child. Besides the outcomes obtained in 2 representative cases, demonstrated by the relevant tests, a short film of a peculiar phenomenon occurring during the tuina treatment in several patients, will be showed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Conclusions. In spite of the very limited series of cases treated, the results achieved have proved very satisfactory. Therefore the authors consider the above combined approach - simple, absolutely safe and effective - worthy of the widest spreading in clinic.</p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Key words: male infertility, tuina, moxibustion with moxa cones, warm needle acupuncture.</p><p><br/></p>