STI: Stress causes 'fire'

March 15, 2009

Stress causes 'fire'

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) experts answer your queries in this fortnightly column.

 

I feel that I am always having a fever, even when I do not have one. Will this affect the quality of my sperm?

 

Infertility and poor quality of sperm are caused by a deficiency in the functions of the spleen, liver and kidney.

 

They are also caused by insufficient qi, blood, kidney yin and yang. Pathogenic factors such as cold, heat and phlegm also play a part. You feel like you are having a fever because you have insufficient kidney yin.

 

Chinese medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion (heat therapy) and cupping therapy can improve the quality of your sperm by strengthening your organs and dispelling the pathogenic factors.

 

Chinese herbs such as Medicinal Changium Root (Dangshen) and Dwarf Lilyturf Tuber (Maidong) increase sperm count, while Prepared Common Monkshood Daughter Root (Fuzi) and Cassia Bark (Rougui) improve the quality of sperm.

 

Avoid stress as it creates heat and fire in your body, which can affect sperm count.

 

Information provided by Ms Lim Lay Beng, a TCM physician at YS Healthcare TCM Clinic in The Adelphi.