THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF UNANI MEDICINES IN THE PROBLEM OF UQR(INFERTILITY): AN OVERVIEW

*Shamsa Ahmad, Dr. Fahmeeda Zeenat, Prof. Suboohi Mustafa

ABSTRACT

Infertility, the woman has never conceived despite cohabitation, regular unprotected sexual intercourse and exposure to pregnancy for 1 year and more is an important health issue causes medical, social and financial problem worldwide. The incidence is increased continuously due to various factors like social pressure, late marriage, late childbirth which harms include heavy economic burden. According to WHO around 17.5% adult population or 1in 6 people affected worldwide from infertility and about 50% of them are related to female infertility and other to male causes etc. Although various conventional treatment are currently available but may be contraindicated in some patient also have the limitation of unsatisfied outcomes and high cost of ART procedures find a alternative treatment always in the need. In Classical Unani literature various drugs has been mentioned for the treatment of Uqr (infertility). Unani medicine considered as suitable alternative to conventional medicines because of its phytoestrogenic, antioxidant, utero tonic, ovulation inducing, aphrodisiac and nutritional properties. An effort has been made in this paper to critically reviews the literature on the potential benefits of unani single and compound drugs as a treatment for infertility.

Keywords: Uqr, Infertility, Unani medicine.