ISSN: 2578-4986
Authors: Kumar P*, Upreti D and Chavan SG
Infertility is still a major issue in our society because of change in natural habits, food habits and living style. Infertility means inability to produce offspring after 12 months of unprotected intercourse. Where societies do not respect an infertile person, it causes major loss of self confidence and other mental and physical problem to the concerned person. Almost 15% of world population is suffering from infertility where male infertility contributes to half of the reasons. Here we had thrown light on Male infertility specifically Oligospermia due to increased number of cases in past years. Oligospermia is called as Ksheena Retas or Ksheena Shukra in Ayurveda, which means low sperm counts or sperm counts less than 15millions sperm/ml of sperm. In this article we have discussed about the cause, symptoms and management of ksheena shukra as per Ayurveda context. The main objective is to rule out the causes, dig into Ayurvedic prospective and affordable Ayurvedic treatment of Ksheena Shukra. Numerous treatment is available in allopathic medicine field but no such desirable results have been achieved as most treatment is hormonal based which do not treat disorder from its roots. Classical Ayurvedic texts like Charak samhita, Shushruta samhita, Ashtang Hridyam etc, modern textbooks, journals and different websites have been taken for studying about literature aspect. After analyzing looking into all aspects, it was concluded that Ayurvedic herbs with properties like sheeta, balya, vrishya, madhura, sheet virya, brihana and pacifies vata and also therapies which pacifies vata like basti have great effect in treating Ksheena shukra which are easily available and affordable for all divisions of society.
Keywords: Kshina Retasa; Sperm; Andrology; Vajeekarana
