Abstract

MANAGEMENT OF PRIMARY INFERTILITY THROUGH AYURVEDA - A CASE REPORT

Dr. Neha Rani*, Soni Kapil, Seema Shukla and Anil Bhardwaj

Abstract

Infertility can be considered as a major health care problem that can have drastic effects on couple‟s lives. Infertility is proven to be the most stressful experience with various psychological damage. Infertility can be manifested either as the inability to become pregnant, inability to uphold a pregnancy and inability to continue a pregnancy till term. There are various causes of infertility. In most of cases these three major causes of infertility are seen, including - male factor, ovulatory dysfunction or Tubal-peritoneal disease. A couple with married life of 3 years and wanting to conceive since 2 years visited the OPD of RGGPGA College, Paprola, HP. Couple was already taking treatment for primary infertility from some other institution without any results. Wife was k/c/o Hypothyroidism with PCOS while husband was having unresponsive semenogram report to medical management. A treatment protocol including Sanshodhan karma was planned for them. In male, treatment planned was - Yoga basti (anuvasanabasti with Balaashwgandhatail, niruha with Vidharigandhadiniruhbasti) and nasyakarama (Shodhannasya with Trikatuchurna and Nasya with Anu tail). In female, treatment protocol was- VirechanKarma with Trivritaadi yoga, Anuvasanabasti with Ksheerbala tail, Niruhabasti with Palashadikwath, lekhanabasti with Triphalakwath and Uttarbasti with Phalkalyan ghrita. After shodhankarma, the couple conceived spontaneously. There was no adverse effect observed during the treatment.

Keywords: Infertility, Virechana karma, Niruhbasti, Lekhnabasti, Anuvasanabasti, Uttar basti, Nasya karma.