Vegetarian food recommendation in the traditional Islamic teachings to increase the fertility of men

• Main Author: Reza Dehghani Bidgoli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2019-10-01
• Series: Journal of Ethnic Foods
• Subjects: Infertility; Men; Medical narrations; Religious teachings
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42779-019-0014-6

Abstract About half of the infertilities are due to men’s problems. In medicine, there are valuable treasures that confirm the effectiveness of some of them today and they have been approved for the treatment of diseases. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the drug’s advice in increasing the fertility of men in Muslim narrative texts and compare it with new knowledge of humanity in medicine. For this purpose, we searched the fertility, men, and vegetable food keywords in the database and valid Islamic books and presented them in this article. Also, the results of academic research have also been pointed out to confirm these religious teachings. Some of the issues in traditional Islamic teachings that have been expressed centuries ago have been confirmed by modern medical science and have been the basis of making effective drugs for treating male infertility. Some of them also need further research. According to the emphasis of available Islamic traditional medicine from the infallible on the efficacy of the vegetable food in improving the quality of the seminal fluid and also confirming the usefulness in clinical trials, these plants can be useful in increasing fertility.