Tribulus and Improved Sperm Quality

• Effect of Tribulus terrestris L. on sperm parameters in men with idiopathic infertility: A systematic review.

  • 2019-02
  • Systematic Review
  • Complementary therapies in medicine 42
  • • Sima Sanagoo
    • Behnaz Sadeghzadeh Oskouei
    • Nafiseh Gassab Abdollahi
    • Hanieh Salehi-Pourmehr
    • Nazanin Hazhir
    • Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili

  • PubMed: 30670288
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2018.09.015

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Sperm Quality

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Only one quasi-experimental without control arm article reported that the use of T. terrestris L. in the treatment of idiopathic male infertility was not effective

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

• Beyond tribulus (Tribulus terrestris L.): The effects of phytotherapics on testosterone, sperm and prostate parameters.

  • 2019-05
  • Review
  • Journal of ethnopharmacology 235
  • • Heitor O Santos
    • Scott Howell
    • Filipe J Teixeira

  • PubMed: 30790614
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.02.033

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Sperm Quality

  • Low evidence

  Moderate evidence supports the use of ... black seeds ... to improve seminal parameters.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  5000 mg/d of powdered mucuna seed