EFFECTS OF PANAX-GINSENG MEYER,C.A. SAPONINS ON MALE-FERTILITY

Sixty-six patients have been treated with Panax Ginseng C.A. Meyer ext ract, of whom 30 oligoastenospermic sine causa (group A), 16 oligoaste nospermic with idiopathic varicocele (group B). Twenty age-matched vol unteers were used as controls (group C), Use of Panax Ginseng extract showed an increase in spermatozoa number/ml and progressive oscillatin g motility, an increase in plasma total and free testosterone, DHT, FS H and LH levels, but a decrease in mean PRL, It is suggested that gins enosides may have an effect at different levels of the hypothalamus-pi tuitary-testis arris.