European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

MANAGEMENT OF ASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA THROUGH AYURVEDA – A CASE STUDY

Dr. Muktha Bharadwaj K. A.* and Dr.Vinay Kumar K. N.

ABSTRACT

Infertility is failure to conceive after one or more year of unprotected coital act. Male infertility can be defined as an inability to cause a pregnancy in a fertile female. Around 45% of males are responsible for infertility worldwide. Asthenoteratozoospermia is a coined term i.e, Asthenozoospermia and Teratozoospermia. Asthenozoospemia is an infertility condition in which a man produces sperms with low motility, and Teratozoospermia is defined as abnormal sperm morphology caused by either defect in the head, midpiece or tail. The combination of both these terms is Asthenoteratozoospermia where the sperm will be having low motility and abnormal morphology. A 32year old male presents for evaluation after 4years of failure to conceive was diagnosed as having Asthenoteratozoospermia with low sperm motility and abnormal sperm morphology. He was given initially with Virechana karma and Vrishya basti along with some oral medications after which there was marked improvement in seminal parameters.

Keywords: Infertility, Asthenozoospermia, Teratozoospermia, Asthenoteratozoospermia, Virechana karma, Vrishya basti.