Male Infertility

The unspeakable trauma can be set at rest with the right therapy

Infertility is a failure to produce an offspring even after a year of conjugal life. If one in six couples in the world are going through this trauma of infertility it is a cause for concern.

It has been found that 40-50 per cent of the occasions of childlessness it is due to male infertility. Research shows that there is a drop in the sperm count over the last few decades probably due to various environmental, dietary and lifestyle changes.

The sperm is produced in the seminiferous tubules of the testes and there is a power house of organelles attached to it enabling it the power of movement to reach to the ovum for fertilization.

Infertility could be due to deficient production of the spermatozoa in the testes.

There could also be a hormonal imbalance i.e. not enough testosterone is produced or the pituitary gland in the brain does not produce the hormone which furthers the action of the male hormones or it could even be the hypothalamus. All this can be investigated if there are no secondary sexual characters or with the help of a simple blood tests.

There could be obstruction of the spermatozoa formed to be released out of the tubules that can cause the absence of sperm in the discharge. There could be a local cause like varicocele wherein there is sluggishness of circulation of blood in the veins that can increase the local temperature of the testes which is detrimental for the survival of the sperm.

Local infection of the testes, prostate gland can cause lack of quality of the sperm. Injury locally to the area can cause deficient sperm production.
Certain long standing illnesses like cystic fibrosis, anaemia or sexually transmitted diseases can cause or compound this problem.

Infertility could occur if the total sperm count is less than 60 millions/ml.

Proper nutrition is very necessary as fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds. Homoeopathic medicine has good remedies to see that various causes of male infertility are addressed. To see that the stagnation of the blood vessels of the testes is reduced, Hamamellis helps to start with and surgery should be the option when it is beyond medication. If the total count is less, medication like Zinc met, if the motility of the sperms is less, Selenium and in some cases of abnormal forms remedies like Lycopodium and Sulph are known to help.