Effective Ayurvedic management of Infertility due to low AMH in Elderly Women - Case Study

Abstract

Pregnancy or the motherhood beyond the edge of reproductive age is referred as Pregnancy in “Elder gravida”. In the developing and developed countries age of marriage and there by child bearing are relatively late in life. Chances of pregnancy for healthy couples in their 20s and early 30s are around 1 in 4 women, 40s around 1 in 10women. Generally reproductive potential decreases as women get older, one of the common reasons is due to low AMH. Age is the single biggest factor affecting a women’s chance to conceive and to have a healthy baby and fertility can be expected to end 5 to 10 years before menopause. Risk of pregnancy complications increases with age. The risk of miscarriage and chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus increases from the age of 35years. Complications such as GDM, Placenta previa, Caesarian section and still birth are common among older women than younger women. According to Ayurveda, Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of women to contribute to conception and also who is unable to carry pregnancy to full term. Ayurvedic management gives a new hope in women by strengthening body’s own self-healing and balancing mechanism without any intervention by outside or foreign substance to replace or correct the hormones in the body. Case Study: A female patient aged 38 years diagnosed as Primary Infertility due to low AMH treated with Virechana followed by Matrabasti and Shaman Chikitsa, after 3 months of treatment her AMH level increased and also patient got Conceived.