Female infertility is a state of fertility disorder caused by multiple reasons. The incidence of
infertility for females has significantly increased due to various factors such as social pressure, late marriage, and late childbirth, and its harm includes heavy economic burden, psychological shadow, and even marriage failure. Conventional solutions, such as
hormone therapy, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and embryo transfer, have the limitations of unsatisfied obstetric outcomes and serious adverse events. Currently, complementary and
alternative medicine (CAM), as a new treatment for
infertility, is gradually challenging the dominant position of traditional
therapies in the treatment of
infertility. CAM claims that it can adjust and harmonize the state of the female body from a holistic approach to achieve a better
therapeutic effect and has been increasingly used by infertile women. Meanwhile, some controversial issues also appeared; that is, some randomized controlled trials (RCTs) confirmed that CAM had no obvious effect on
infertility, and the mechanism of its effect could not reach a consensus. To clarify CAM effectiveness, safety, and mechanism, this paper systematically reviewed the literature about its treatment of
female infertility collected from PubMed and CNKI databases and mainly introduced acupuncture,
moxibustion, and oral Chinese herbal medicine. In addition, we also briefly summarized psychological intervention,
biosimilar electrical stimulation,
homeopathy,
hyperbaric oxygen therapy, etc.