정자감소로 인한 남성불임증의 최근 중의치료동향에 대한 연구 = The Study on the Current Treatment of Male Infertility Caused by Oligospermia in Oriental Medicine

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Oligospermia is a deficiency in spermatogenesis with a low sperm concentration, less than 20 million per 1 ml semem. This is one of many important causes of male infertility. The number of sperm of average male has been decreased since last several decades. It is known that environmental hormones and drug abuse have incurred oligospermia continually. Oligospermia is divided into three types;spermatogenesis failure, sperm-carrying defect and idiopathic type. Until now, drug therapy has not proved itself to be effective, and ART(Assisted Reproductive Technique) is not a radical method in treating oligospermia, quantatatively and/or qualitatively, having scientific and/or ethical limit. The object of this study is to investigate current trend in oligospermia treatment and search out effective treatment method. In oriental medicine, oligospermia was referred to defective ejaculation and/or thinness of seminal fluid, and the cause of the disease was recognized as insufficiency of Kidney Essence. Therapeutic target was supplementing the Kidney Essence. Sperm density is increased and fertility rate increased. Therapeutic method is divided into drug and acupuncture theraphy. When, in drug formulae, Supplementing Kidney Essence medicinals become main stream, and Circulating Blood and Extinguishing Bloodstasis medicinals sidestream, the formula's effects was better. In fact, the effects of these methods was proved excellent. It is known that some medicinals and acupuncture correc thypothalamus-pituitary gland-sexual gland axis disturbance, recover testis function, and invigorate seminal production. Besides above methods, there are other methods to treat oligospermia-pasting umblicus with herb medicinals, controlling food intake and psychotic theraphy.