Male Infertility Management Using Homoeopathic Medicines: An Observational Study Focused on Asthenospermia
By Dr Seema Murali ( [email protected])
Infertility is having a pivotal role among clinical conditions which affects more than 10% of world’s population. The socio-psycho stigma and economic factors associated with infertility have a major impact in family health and welfare. Asthenospermia is a clinical condition in which sperm motility is less than WHO cut of levels (less than 40% of anterior motility), it is a major cause for the male infertility. Even though conventional methods like ICSI is available for treating Asthenospermia (with an average cost of Rs.76000) the common people cannot economically afford it. In this regard we have conducted an observational study on 50 cases of Asthenospermia who received Homoeopathic treatment for 6 months at fertility care centre, Thiruvananthapuram from 2017 July to 2018 January.
The total sperm count and anterior sperm motility was fixed as the observational data points. A Quasi experimental study was designed and the data sets were derived from the organized analysis and evaluation of semen analysis reports. Standard and individualised homoeopathic medicinal management was carried out and the cases were evaluated on 3rd and 6 months respectively. The data analysis and multivariant ANOVA were carried out using SPSS -2017. It is identified from the obtained results that among the treatment group total sperm count increased from a mean value of 23.19 before treatment to a mean value of 41.68 after 6 months of Homoeopathic medicinal treatment. At the same time mean anterior motility, (Asthenospermia) of 13.28 before treatment raised to a value of 32.96 after treatment for 6 months period. Obtained results revealed that total sperm count increased more in patients without varicocoel when compared to the patients with varicocoel. Moreover we did not observe any correlation between varicocoel and Asthenospermia.
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Oriparambil Sivaraman Nirmal Ghosh ([email protected])
