Infertility in females refers to the incapacity to conceive and give birth to a living baby. Infertility or failure to reproduce must be distinguished from frigidity which denotes failure to perform the sex act or performing it imperfectly.

• Female infertility due to physical disability: Female infertility may be due to physical defects, physical debility, and functional faults. Sterility due to physical debility can result from poor health as a consequence of certain acute or chronic diseases. Complaints like gonorrhoea, syphilis, and inflammation of the fallopian tubes also come under this category.
• Other causes of female infertility: Chronic anemia, constipation, and leucorrhoea aggravate these conditions. Sterility may also be caused by loss of essential glands or organs of reproduction, or a decrease in their functions. Obesity or emaciation due either to dietetic errors or faulty metabolism is other factors which call contribute to female infertility.

The symptoms are consist of psychological factors like stress, tension, mental depression, anxiety and fear which may also result in psychosomatic sterility.

• Banyan root: The tender roots of the banyan tree are one of the valuable remedies, which have proved to be very beneficial for treating female sterility. This remedy should be repeated after the completion of the menstrual cycle every month till conception takes place
• Jambul leaves: An infusion of the fresh tender leaves of jambul fruit is a very good remedy for the treatment of sterility or miscarriage due to an ovarian or endometrium functional disorder. The infusion may be taken with either two teaspoons of honey or 200 ml of buttermilk.
• Besides these other useful remedies are wild carrot seeds, rutin, smartweed leaves.

• Avoid spicy foods: Spicy foods must be avoided by a lady suffering from female sterility. She must drink lots and lots of liquids.
• Rest: The suffering patient should take a lot of rest.
• Avoid horse riding: Riding horses or other forms of transport, particularly in which the hips come in the contact with a hard seat, should be prohibited.