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Ethics in Infertility Treatment: A Comparative Study of Allopathic and Siddha Medicine, Slides of Biotechnology

Ethical and unethical practices in infertility treatment using allopathic and siddha medicine in india. It covers causes of infertility, treatments, unethical practices, ethical issues, and case studies. The document aims to provide insight into the moral dilemmas and controversies surrounding infertility treatment in both systems of medicine.

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Ethics in Infertility treatment

A study of practices in Allopathy

and Siddha medicine

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Treatment / Procedures - Allopathic Practitioners
  • Unethical Practices of Allopathic Medicine - Criticism
  • Treatment / Steps followed in Siddha System of medicine
  • Unethical Practices of Traditional Medicine – Criticism
  • Case History of successful patients treated through Siddha system of Medicine
  • Conclusion

Infertility

  • Infertility is the inability to conceive after

attempting to do so for 1 year.

  • It occurs in about 10%-15% of couples
  • It is a result of physiological problems in either

partner

  • Increasing prevalence a cause for concern
  • Attributed largely to changes in

lifestyle,environment and pollution.

How big is it a problem?

20

20 50

10

Male Female Combined Unknown

Source: American college of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Treatment / Procedures - Allopathic

Practitioners

  • Male Infertility
    • Hormonal therapy to increase Sperm counts
  • Female Infertility (Ref. Novak’s Textbook of Gynecology )
    • Medication to stimulate the ovaries to “ripen” and release eggs (e.g.: Clomiphene citrate)
    • Surgery to restore patency of obstructed fallopian tubes ( Tuboplasty )
    • Artificial insemination which involves the woman being inseminated with Husband / donor sperm.
    • Invitro fertilization (IVF) in which eggs are removed from the woman, fertilized and then placed in the woman’s uterus bypassing the fallopian tubes.

Treatment Options

Exogenous

 IUI

 ICSI

 Sperm extraction

 GIFT

 ZIFT

Unethical Practices of Allopathic Medicine - Criticism (cont…..)

  • Psychological impact
    • Anxious to conceive – creates and worsened Marital discord
    • Clinical depression rates among Women undergoing Infertility treatment similar to those with Cancer or Heart disease.
  • Medications like Steroids & Anti-fungals known to cause Infertility
  • Surgical complications of Diagnostic procedures (Diagnostic laproscopy)
  • Birth defects are increased with the use of IVF in general and ICSI specifically.

Ethical issues

  • Issues regarding Donor Insemination - Emotional turmoil of Father - Emotional turmoil of Child - Lack of paternal bonding by children - Legal issues regarding property rights, etc - Possibility of genetic disorders being transmitted through Donor insemination - Use of unauthorized Donor Insemination

Emotional bonding between Mother

& Child….!

Treatment / Steps followed in Siddha System

of medicine

  • Includes new combinations of herbal drugs not available in other systems
  • Aimed at providing a Healthy life and not just the cure of

symptoms.

  • System based on “ Tridosha” – humoral theory akin to modern

Endocrinology

  • System inculcates good cultural principles & moral conduct
  • System based on natural herbs and Ingredients rendering new

impetus for stimulation of active life

  • Siddha Rx paves the way for restoration of the potency of

obstructed fallopian tubes without any surgery.

Treatment modalities –Endogenous

(Ref. Indian Medicinal Plants, Arya Vaidya Sala )

Aloe indica

Withania somnifera (^) Phyllanthus niruri

Terminalia chebula

Treatment modalities –Endogenous

(Ref. Indian Medicinal Plants, Arya Vaidya Sala )

Phyllanthus emblica

Piper longum Terminalia bellirica

Phylanthus reticulatus

All the above mentioned points

are rationally proven and not

mere “BLIND BELIEFS”

Unethical Practices of Traditional

Medicine & Criticisms

  • Issues of compatibility between varieties of

Traditional medicine & the scientific method

  • Lack of proper testing or Evidence based

Medicine (EBM)

  • No Randomized Control trials
  • Safety aspects