Abstract

FEMALE INFERTILITY – TREATMENT MODALITIES BY AYURVEDA

Dr. Kshama Gupta - Sharir Rachna and Dr. Suhail Jandial MD Kayachikitsa

ABSTRACT

One in every four couples in developing countries had been found to be affected by in- fertility, when an evaluation of responses from women in Demographi and Health Surveys from 1990 was completed in collaboration with WHO in 2004. In India alone many women are suffering from infertility. The major causes are including male factor such as azoospermia, hypospadias, female factors such as peritoneal factor, tubal factor, ovarian factor, cervical factor. Sometimes unexplained causes are also present where b th the partner is nor- mal. Ayurveda describes vandhyatva with its treatment protocol. Since any researchers have worked on this burning issue but still the awareness and proper treatment regarding disease are yet to be explored. So thisarticle contents general awareness and clinically used various treat- ment modalities as per Ayurveda for female infertility.

Keywords: infertility, Vandhyatwa, Ayurveda, streeroga.