Does anyone know of any fertility-enhancing herbs or herbal treatments, internally or externally, for men or women? What are they?
I don’t, really, at least, not where I have heard evidence that they work. The rumor on alt.infertility is that evening primrose oil is supposed to be helpful for women who have a shortage of fertile [cervical fluid]. I don’t know that it actually *does* help; on the other hand, I don’t know that Robitussin does either. I haven’t tried either. What I do know about evening primrose oil (source – _The Honest Herbal_ – which has lots of useful information about the safety and effectiveness of various herbs) is that its active ingredient is cis-gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), a precursor of prostaglandin E1, and that there is some clinical evidence for its effectiveness in treating PMS (among other things). A review article referenced in the writeup in _The Honest Herbal_ as A. J. Barber: Pharmaceutical Journal 240: 723-725, 1988. There is a thread going in alt.infertility … about herbal treatments of male factor, but all I’ve seen anyone come up with so far is pollen, which has all kinds of
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