ROLE OF UTTAR BASTI IN THE MANAGEMENT OF FEMALE INFERTILITY: AN EVIDENCE BASED REVIEW

Abstract

Background - Infertility is the most sensitive and cumbersome problem which haunts most of the couple now a day’s especially female factors which is one of the major cause in fertil-ity.Among female factor the sub factors are ovarian, tubal, endometrial and uterine. The factors such as lifestyle, stress, excessive usage of contraceptive, genetic problems, smoking and drinking habits increases such cases day by day. Panchakarma provides best efficacy because it helps in balancing Dosha and Dushya.Uttar basti is one such type of the treatment modality being indicated for infertility. It helps in de-toxification of body specially the reproductive system thus helps in balancing Tridosha mainly the Vata Dosha which ultimately helps in retaining and caring the pregnancy. Aim - Aim of the study is to evaluate the role of Uttarbasti in the management of female in-fertility. Resources-Sources of this review study are post-graduation student’s thesis of Ayurvedic colleges of India and Various International Journal Articles. Discussion-Present review study is an effort to understand the efficacy of Uttarbasti in the female infertility. In order to establish it as a safer, cost effective and highly significant Ay-urvedic treatment modality with evidence based clinical trials. Conclusion -Considering this study it is realised that Uttarbasti has a lot of therapeutic po-tential in the management of female infertility. Need some more study to establish the Uttar-basti as a bench mark treatment over all complaints and cause of infertility by using different medicines.