Abstract
If females become pregnant when their physical and/or mental condition is poor, the course of pregnancy is likely to be abnormal, elevating the mother-child survival risk through abortion or pathologic delivery. To avoid this, females are equipped with a maternity-protective mechanism (an autonomically driven host defensive reaction) by which minus control of pregnancy is effected so that pregnancy will not develop during such pathologic conditions. Thus, psychosomatic disease is now an important factor determining female sterility. The present study was undertaken to analyze the relationship between female sterility and psychosomatic disease through analyzing sterility in relationship to autonomic imbalance and depression, based on the data on Kupperman index for climacteric symptoms and SRQ-D score collected from the cases managed at our hospital. The analysis revealed that autonomic imbalance and depression correlate with sterility due to ovarian dysfunction. This result suggests that management of psychosomatic disease is important when dealing with female sterility in the present age and that Kampo (traditional Chinese herbal) medicine will play a significant role in management of such cases.
