AYURVEDIC APPROCH TO MALE INFERTILITY
Dr. Beneti Kaniz Fatima* and Dr. MS Sonika
ABSTRACT
Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive within one or more years of regular unprotected coitus. Male infertility is one of the burning problems now a day’s. Incidences of this problem increases day by day due to change in lifestyle. Causes of male infertility include abnormal sperm production or function and/or impaired delivery of sperm. Oligospermia is the male infertility issue defined as low sperm concentration in the ejaculation. As per World Health Organization (WHO), a low sperm count is less than 20 million sperm/ml. Normal sperm count varies from 20 to 150 million sperm per milliliter. Ayurveda described various terms related to male infertility such as; Kshina shukra, Kshina retasa, Alpa retasa and Shukra dosha which resembles conditions associated with oligospermia. Ayurveda also described various treatment modalities for the management of Oligospermia named as Vaajeekarana-chikitsa. Also use of herbs and formulation, conduction of balanced lifestyle and diet control, etc. Current paper aims at putting forward the causes and treatment of male infertility as described in Ayurveda.
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