"Xiao Ping Zhai is incredibly compassionate and understanding, and her results are very good." Michael Dooley- Consultant Gynaecologist "Thank you, I am so greatful for your excellent care, You really are magnificent!" J.C "Thank you for everything you have done for us this year, and for giving us hope." Sally "A huge thank you for all your help and support. " Justine "At 44 I had almost given up hope, thank you once again for all your help. " Katie "I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your help last year." Lisa "We would like to thank the entire team at 'The Zhai Clinic' for helping us." Camelia "We will never be able to thank you enough for all you help in making our dreams come true." Helen "Thank you very much to you and your team, you always managed to make us feel positive and hopeful." Svetlana "I’m sure without all your help and treatment this wouldn’t have happened. I felt so well and positive going into the IVF and that I’m sure was all it needed to get the end result. She’s PERFECT!” (2009) " (2009) "“My beautiful baby boy is now eight weeks old. Our son really is our miracle baby. At 44 I had almost given up hope of having another baby. I really couldn’t believe it when, six weeks into my treatment at the Zhai Clinic, I became pregnant. So I really wanted to say thank you and to all of your team. We are very grateful to you." 2009 "“Words cannot express our deep thanks for your amazing skills''." A.N "''Four miscarriages, two IVF treatments and you just sorted us out so quickly – months! We are so proud of our gorgeous son & younger brother. Thank you so much.” " 2009 "We know that without your help Oliver would not be with us now, and he is worth the wait. We cannot thank you enough for helping us!" Martin and Denise "We are so grateful for the help that you gave us, and we have no doubt that without your help this miracle would not of happened, especially after so many years of conventional fertility treatment adn numerous miscarriages. I am particulary indebted to you for your continued support when the majority of other doctors had told me to give up hope of ever having a child of my own. Thank you again. " K M "We are most grateful and feel very privileged to have been under your care. There is hope for those older women out there, and I would encourage anyone in a similar position as we were to try Chinese Medicine. Thank you once again. " Mrs Sarah B "Nick and I can't thank you enough for all the help you gave us prior and alongside our IVF treatment. " Mr and Mrs P "I can't believe that our little miracle has finally arrived. Thank you so much for being part and making it all possible for us to have Jasmine in our lives, we really appreciate everything you have done for us. " Lisa "All that remains to be said is that we will be eternally indebted to you for making our dream, which often felt out of grasp come true. You will always have a special place in my heart. " K & H "We wanted to thank you and your colleagues for all your help and achieving our pregnancy." Daniel and Sam "We still can't believe that after 7 years and 5 IVF attempts we finally have a baby. Thank you for all your help and great care." Melanie "I am very grateful for your treatment alongside my IVF treatment and will always remember how positive and relaxed you made me feel whenever I came into your clinic." Nadine "I thought you'd like to know that our baby has arrived at last. All is going well and she is really here! We still can't believe she's here and keep going into her room to check! " Sally and Andrew "Thank you very much for your medical guidance. Alex was born and he is healthy, hungry and happy. We are delighted. Without you it would be a very different story. " Simone "Huge thanks for helping us to achieve our dream. Words cannot express how happy we are to finally have our beautiful little boy, and we are forever grateful to all of the team at The Zhai Clinic for helping us get there. " Adele and Neil "Thank you so much for your never ending support and encouragement throughout our visits to you. My pregnancy was so smooth, no doubt due to your continued care. When we are ready to extend our family we will see you again. " Verity and Olly "Words cannot express how grateful we are to you and your wonderful team, for giving us the chance to have the most precious gift in the world." Rebecca and Alan "I just wanted to say thank you for all your help, herbs and support! I gave birth to a very healthy baby boy." Karen and Paul "I wanted to let you know that we were blessed by the arrival of a second baby daughter and im sure that your treatment to help my FSH condition was responsible for both spontaneous pregnancies. Without your help we would never have achieved our dream of a family, thankyou. " Joanne "Our much longed for baby has now arrived, after a very straight forward pregnancy and labour. I am sure that our son would not be here if it were not for the herbs and acupuncture I had in the months before he was conceived. Thank you very much for all your help. " Alison "When IVF fails for childless couples, despair can set in, but Dr Xiao Ping Zhai has helped hundreds of infertile women to concieve - She is the Miracle on Harley Street. " Telegraph "The Doctor Who Makes Babies! Dr Xiao Ping Zhai has helped hundreds of infertile women to get pregnant using acupuncture, herbs and boiled twigs." The Observer "Thank you- Two small words but the only ones we have to express how we love and respect you for all you have done. You have without doubt changed our lives abd made our dreams come true." Daniel and Sam "We are overjoyed with the birth of our little daughter. Thank you so much for your help and support in achieving this. The medicine gave us a lot of hope in such a short space of time with amazing results." Mr and Mrs A "Thank you so much for all your care and attention. We still can't quite believe 'our little miracle! He is completely fantastic, Thankyou" Karen and Mark

Press & Testimonials

  • The Baby Maker

    25 October 2009 , The Guardian

    When, in the mid-1990s, Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai began using traditional Chinese medicine to treat infertility, her Harley Street practice was confined to a couple of rooms, each no bigger than a stationery cupboard. I first met Zhai more than six years ago, when Michael Dooley, a gynaecologist and fertility consultant, formerly at the Lister hospital in London and now running his own clinic in Dorset, told me about her success rate in getting women pregnant. Between 1995 and 2000 she had treated 224 patients (average age 37) with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). After treatment for at least six months 76% of the women had become pregnant. Of these pregnancies, 77% resulted in a baby, and of the 23% who miscarried, 69% went on to have a baby later. In 2000 the fertility clinic at the very top of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority league table was claiming a success rate of up to 38.8%. Zhai's success was in the 70s. "I don't know what she does," Dooley told me. "I don't understand it at all, but her results are amazing and I'm keeping an open mind." He'd begun sending his most difficult patients to her, many of them poor candidates for IVF due to age or egg supply or FSH levels (a measure of the perimenopause); women who, by normal diagnosis, did not stand a hope in hell's chance of conceiving naturally or through assisted treatment (many of them wouldn't even qualify for treatment in some clinics). Zhai, with her herbs and her acupuncture and all the bizarre practices that go with a TCM consultation – more of which later – was Dooley's last-chance saloon.

  • Plants Used in Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Male Infertility Possess

    01 July 2008 , Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine,54:4,185 — 195

    Xiao Ping Zhai along with Kent University researched the treatment of male infertility. In this study Chinese herbs commonly used in the treatment of male infertility were investigated for relevant biochemical activity. Male factor infertility predominantly arises via barriers to, or defects in, spermatogenesis. The process of spermatogenesis is under strict endocrine control; in addition oxidative stress has been implicated in male infertility with significant levels of reactive oxygen species detected in 25% of infertile males. A total of 37 individual herbs and seven herb decoctions used in the treatment of male factor infertility were therefore tested for endocrine activity using a recombinant yeast based assay and antioxidant activity using the FRAP (ferric reducing antioxidant potential) assay. Individual herbs tested did not show androgenic properties, 20 showed strong and 10 weak anti-oestrogenic activity (per g of dried herb tamoxifen equivalents ranged from 1.18– 1280.66mg and 0.06–0.98mg, respectively). Oestrogenic responses were elicited for two herbs (85.30–550 mg oestradiol equivalents/g dried herb), with seven and three herbs exhibiting a strong or weak anti-androgenic response (per g of dried herb DHT equivalents ranged from 1.54–66.78mg and 0.17– 0.32 mg), respectively. Of these 37 herbs, strong (15 herbs), intermediate (7 herbs) and weak/no (15 herbs) antioxidant activity was detected (ranging from 0.912–1.26; 0.6–0.88 and 0–0.468 mg ascorbate equivalent/mg dried herb, respectively). The seven decoctions (previously used to treat patients) tested elicited strong (5 herbs) and weak (2 herbs) anti-oestrogenic responses (per g of dried herb tamoxifen equivalents ranged from 1.14–13.23mg and 0.22– 0.26 mg, respectively), but not oestrogenic, androgenic nor anti-androgenic, consistent with their individual composition. With regard to antioxidant activity the following responses were recorded: three strong, three intermediate and one weak (ranging from 1.02–1.2; 0.72–0.76 and 0.44 mg ascorbate equivalent/mg dried herb, respectively). The prospects for introducing Chinese herbal treatments into the Western-based medicine are discussed.

  • Miracle On Harley Street

    04 March 2004 , Telegraph

    When IVF fails for childless couples, despair can set in. But Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai has helped hundreds of ‘infertile’ women to conceive with the help of traditional Chinese medicine, and now her approach is being studied by forward-thinking Western doctors.

  • The Chinese Remedy

    01 April 2003 , Issue Volume 38

  • My Little Chinese Take Away

    03 October 1999 , Sunday Mirror

    'After years of failed fertility treatments Caroline Stuart finally conceived with the ancient Chinese herbal remedies. I heard about Chinese fertility expert, Dr Xiao Ping Zhai. Straight away I had faith in her, she was gentle and sympathetic, and I felt encouraged because a lot of her patients were my age'.

  • A Father after a Seven Year Wait

    30 June 1998 , Evening Standard

    'A London doctor who uses traditional Chinese medicine to help childless couples seems to be getting results'.