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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
versão On-line ISSN 1561-3194
Resumo
RAMOS PADILLA1*, Kenia e BANOS HERNANDEZ1, Ihosvani. Chinese Traditional Medicine in male infertility. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.6, pp. 70-77. ISSN 1561-3194.
Introduction:
oligoasthenozoospermiais a common cause of male infertility. The kidney according to Chinese Traditional Medicine is one of the most affected organs associated with this health condition.
Objective:
to describe the traditional syndromes associated with male infertility, searching for more effective individualized treatments.
Methods:
an observational and descriptive study was carried out in the Natural and Traditional Medicine Service at Abel Santamaria Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital in Pinar del Río during 2016; 86 infertile patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The sample was distinguished according to: adjustment of the work-rest regime, inadequate diet, toxic habits, intemperate sexual activity, symptoms and traditional signs, characteristics of tongue and pulse, and syndromes of Zang-Fu organs, according to four diagnostic methods.
Results:
61,6 % of the patients manifested alterations of the work-rest regime, 54,6 % inadequate food intake with increase of fatty foods, and 41 % ingestion of alcoholic beverages; 80,2 % showed lassitude and pain in the lumbar region and knees predominantly, pale tongue with fine-white coating (27,5 %) and the deep and filiform pulse (34 %). The prevailing syndromes according to Zang Fu organs were: Kidney Yang deficiency (34,9 %), Kidney Jing deficiency (29,1 %) and Kidney Yin deficiency (24,4 %).
Conclusions:
kidney deficiency syndromes predominated in infertile patients. The differentiation of the syndromes in these patients is of great importance for the adequate alternative of traditional treatment and its effectiveness.
Palavras-chave : INFERTILITY, MALE;WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL..