Ashish Gupta1,
Abbas Ali Mahdi2, Mohammad K. Ahmad2, Navneeta Bansal2,
Pushplata Sankhwar3, Satya Narain Sankhwar4
1Centre
of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, SGPGIMS Campus, Lucknow, UP, India; 2Department
of Biochemistry, King Georges Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India; 3Department
of Obstetrics & Gynecology, King Georges Medical University, Lucknow,
UP, India; 4Department of Urology, King Georges Medical
University, Lucknow, UP, India
Efficacy of Withania sonmifera (W. somnifera) were evaluated on metabolic profile of seminal plasma of infertile patients (n=180). Patients were administered (5g/day) W. somnifera root powder for three months. Lactate, alanine, choline, citrate, glycerophosphocholine (GPC), glutamine, tyrosine, histidine, phenylalanine, and uridine were measured in seminal plasma using 1H NMR spectroscopy. W. somnifera therapy repairs the disturbed concentration of lactate, alanine, citrate, GPC, histidine and phenylalanine in seminal plasma and recovers the quality of semen of post-treated infertile men with compared to pre-treated. Results suggest that W. somnifera may be used as an empirical therapy for infertility treatment and clinical management.