Terms Related to Infertility:
Sterility

Symptoms & Signs
Infertility is the diminished ability or the inability to conceive and have offspring. Infertility is also defined in specific terms as the failure to conceive after a year of regular intercourse without contraception. Irreversible infertility is also referred to as sterility. Since ages various indigenous

preparations have been used in treating sterility and infertility in India. Some useful herbs include Shatavari, Phalagrita, Manjistha, root and bark of Pipala, Bakul, Kevda, Ashwagandha, Saraswati grita. The main causes for infertility according to Ayurveda are eating spicy, salty and hot food that increase pitta and destroys shukra (semen), overindulgence in sexual activities that leads to shukra kshaya (loss of semen) it may also cause clibya (impotency), controlling sexual urges for longer duration that results in veeryaavarodha (Obstruction of semen) and leads to decreased libido. In some cases impotency is acquired by birth also.