What are the Causes of Sterility and Infertility?
Infertility implies an apparent failure of a couple to conceive, while sterility indicates absolute inability to conceive. Primary infertility is if the patient fails to conceive after having produced a child or have a miscarriage. Due to fast and stressful life this problem is becoming more common today and people are spending a big portion of their savings.

Causes of Sterility
In male, systematic diseases
like diabetes and obesity; endocrine disorders like pituitary infantilism, hypothyroidism, adrenal hyperplasia are important causes. Similarly factors like heavy smoking, alcoholism, nervous tension about sex, and psychological problems can also be responsible. Genital factors like defective spermatogenesis, testicular atrophy following mumps; infections like gonococcal and tubercular in the genital tract, and aging above 45 can cause this disorder. The normal semen shows sperm count 60 to 120 million per ml with motility 80 to 90 percent.

Azospermia denotes absence of sperms. Oligospermia is mild when the count is 80 million, moderate 50 million and severe when less than 5 million per ml.

In Female, systematic diseases sufficient to suppress the ovulation and age above 40 are very common causes. Endocrine factors like frohlich's syndrome, psychological factors like fear, and nervousness can also cause this problem. Genital factors like narrow vaginal introitus, vaginal atresia, high vaginal acidity, cervical, uterine, tubal, and ovarian disorders can cause sterility in females.

Treatment
Proper counseling should be done for both husband and wife. Make sure that the menstrual cycle of the women is regular, and sperm count in men is absolutely normal in all respects. Start tonification therapy for both. Advice Anti-Vata diets for both partners. Use aphrodisiac herbs like ashwagandha, mucuna pruriens, bala, white musli and ipomea digitata for male infertility. Mixture of any 3 herbs in equal parts with dose of 1 to 2 gms a day for 1 month is useful. There are also some other effective natural herbal supplements to cure these problems for the root. But better will be to take medical consultation from some health expert before taking any herbal pills or supplements.