Patient's question:
Hello doctor, I would like to consult about how to treat oligospermia. My colleague complained that he has oligospermia and has been married for many years, but his wife has still not become pregnant. What kind of condition is this? How can oligospermia be treated effectively?Doctor's answer:
In traditional Chinese medicine, a low sperm count is considered a category of deficiency fatigue. It is often caused by insufficient innate endowment, excessive sexual activity that damages kidney essence, or prolonged illness leading to a deficiency of qi and blood, resulting in a lack of sources for kidney essence. Ultimately, this leads to insufficient kidney essence, making kidney deficiency the direct cause of a low sperm count. Although kidney deficiency also includes aspects such as kidney qi, kidney yang, and kidney yin, generally speaking, they are all related to insufficient kidney yin. In this case, replenishing kidney yin can also replenish sperm, as Zhang Jingyue said: "Those who excel in replenishing yang must seek it within yin, so that yang can be continuously generated with the help of yin. Those who excel in replenishing yin must seek it within yang, so that yin can be continuously replenished with the help of yang." Common foods and medications for replenishing sperm include: eel, black fish, loach, sea cucumber, tendon, soy products, shrimp, chicken breast, black fungus, black sesame seeds, small walnuts, sheep kidneys, pig kidneys, dog testicles, chicken liver, and Liuwei Dihuang Wan (water pills).