Progress in clinical and mechanistic studies of moxibustion for the treatment of oligoasthenospermia over the past decade

Key Points

• The research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness and mechanisms of moxibustion in treating oligoasthenospermia over the past ten years.
• Review of clinical studies involving moxibustion for oligoasthenospermia
• Analysis of combined treatments with herbal medicines and acupuncture
• Assessment of moxibustion's role in regulating hormonal axes
• Moxibustion significantly improves sperm quality and pregnancy rates
• Mechanisms include regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis
• Inhibition of germ cell apoptosis and improvement in oxidative stress conditions
• Promotion of DNA damage repair in sperm cells