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REVIEW ARTICLE ON THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF VAJIKARANA GHRITA IN MALE INFERTILITY W.S.R. TO CHARAK SAMHITA

Shubham Babanrao Charbhe* and Seema U. Atram

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Review article on therapeutic potential of different types of vajikarana ghrita in male infertility w.s.r. to charak samhita. Vajikarana: Vajikarana is one of the branch of ashtang ayurveda, Vajikarana deals with, 1) Various sexual and reproductive disfunction. 2) Management of pathophysiology of spermatogenesis. 3) Healthy sexual potency. 4) Improving progeny. In sanskrit, vaji means horse, the symbol of sexual potency and performance thus vajikarana means producing a vigour like horse. Male infertility: A man is not able to start a pregnancy with his female partner. As per WHO estimates 60- 80 million couple worldwide currently suffer from infertility. Of all infertility cases, approximately 40-50% is due to male factor. Aims: To find out therapeutic potential of different types of vajikarana ghrita in male infertility, which are mentioned in charaka Samhita vajikarana adhyaya, on the basis of dravya, guna and karma. Material and Methods: The present review is mainly focus on Charaka samhita vajikarana adhyaya, drugs mentioned under vajikarana ghrita yogas are referred from the Bhavprakash nighantu and sharangdhara samhita. also referred published work from PubMed, journals, Google scholar, and research papers. Discussion: According to samanya vishesh siddhant, drugs with similar characteristics increases similar characteristics in the body. ghrita and shukra has equal characteristics so that consumption of ghrita helps in shukra vriddhi. Similarly, 4 types of vajikarana yogas namely, vajikarana ghrita, vrishya ghrita, vrishya shatavari ghrita and apatyakara ghrita contain dravyas which have madhurarasa, guru-sheeta guna and are balya, brihana, shukral, shukravardhaka, vrushya. Therefore this four types of ghrita works in male infertility. Result: vajikarana ghrita, vrishya ghrita, vrishya shatavari ghrita and apatyakara ghrita has therapeutic potential in management of male infertility.

Keywords: Ghrita, Vajikarana ghrita, Male infertility.