Impotence - Symptom, Causes, Home Remedies of Impotence
What is Impotence ?
Impotence is a disease peculiar to males; in females the corresponding disorder is known as frigidity. Impotence can be defined as the inability to perform the sexual att, or incomplete performance which leaves the female partner partially or totally dissatisfied.
It has been found that about seventy per cent of males complaining of the incapacity to perform the sexual act suffer from psychological impotence. They may be suffering from a guilt complex because of having indulged in masturbation in their childhood and adolescence, or they may be feeling guilty because they have been indulging in unnatural sex. Some of them may be in a perennially excited state due to constant thinking about performing the sexual act, and the moment they get an opportunity, they ejaculate even before their female partners have reached a state of physical readiness, or before the commencement of the act. Actual physical or organic impotence is rather rare.
Sushruta and Charaka have categorised impotent males according to the perversion that excites them to perform sexual activity. Sushruta has described them as Aasekya-those who are excited on licking the semen; Saugandhika-those who get excited when they smell the vagina; Kumbhika--those who get excited only when they are the passive partners in anal sex; and Irshyaka--those who are voyeurs and get excited when they watch others performing the sexual act. Charaka has similarly classified impotent males according to their peculiar preferences.
Symptoms & Causes of Impotence
Impotence may be partial or total, temporary or permanent. But the most satisfactory classification of the disorder is in either of two categories: organic or functional. Among organic causes are lesions of the external genitals, such as a tight foreskin; disturbances of the endocrine glands, such as diabetes, diminished activity of the gonads, thyroid gland, or the pituitary gland; diseases of the central nervous system, such as tabes dorsalis-a paralysing condition caused by syphilis; locomotor ataxia, or the disordered. and disjointed movement of the limbs, due to lack of coordination; any severe disturbance of health, such as diabetes mellitus, addiction to alcohol and the like.
Among the psychological factors are ignorance, fear, and weakness of sexual desire. Ayurveda maintains that impotence may be caused by the vitiation of any of the three doshas of the body- vata, pitta, and kapha, or a combination of all the three.
Home Remedies for Impotence
Diet and Other Regimen: A high protein diet is an essential part of the treatment. Fish, eggs, testicles of a goat, partridge meat, eggs of a crocodile, urad dal, butter, and ghee are specially recommended for impotency.
Mental tension should be avoided. If one is suffering from diabetes or taking any drugs for hypertension, the doctor should be consulted.
Medicines & Prescriptions: In the case of organic impotence, such as a tight foreskin, surgery is the only recourse. If the failure to perform is psychological, a proper explanation of the facts of life to the patient would help.
In Ayurveda, vajikarana or aphrodisiacs have been developed from the earliest times to deal with cases of impotence. Drugs prescribed for sterility would definitely help.
The popular medicines used in the treatment of this condition according to Bhiskharma Siddhi, a popular treatise on Ayurvedic medicine, are: Apatyakara Swarasa, Kamalakshadi Churna, Vanari Gutika, Shri Madananda Modaka, Mahachandanadi Taila, Mritsanjivani Sura, Vtrya Stambha Vati, Chandrodaya Rasa and Makaradhwaja.
List of Gynaecological Problems
Gonorrhoea
Dysmenorrhoea
Impotence
Frigidity
Leucorrhoea
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