These are the normal “fertile” couples and the rest are labeled as “infertile”. And if you have been having sexual intercourse two or three times a week, at about the time of ovulation without any form of birth control for a year or more and have not become pregnant, you meet the definition of being “infertile”. Couples who have never had a child are said to have “primary infertility”, those women who have become pregnant at least once, but are unable to conceive again are said to have “secondary infertility”.
The foremost Unani practitioner Hakeem SHAH describes that the chances of achieving pregnancy for a couple in a given cycle will depend upon many factors, and the most important ones are:
According to Hakeem SHAH, if infertile couples had 30 years in which to breed, most wives would get pregnant with out any treatment at all. Of course, time is limited, so the odds need to be improved. And this is where medical treatment comes in. In the past, infertility was blamed wholely and solely on the women. Perhaps this was because the male psyche equated fertility with virility and viewed failure to father a child with shame. However, research today shows that 40% infertility emanates directly from the man. The commonest reason for this, is what modern medicine/allopathy calls “idiopathic” which simply means we do not know. In allopathy this is one on the reasons why the diagnosis of male infertility is so frustrating for both patients and doctors of modern medicines. In modern medicine medical treatment for male infertility does not have a high success rate and has unpleasant side effects. This simply reflects the modern doctor’s ignorance about male infertility. They know very little about what causes it, and their knowledge about how to treat it is even more pitiable.
