Description
Chorionic gonadotrophin- hormonal drug, excreted from the urine of pregnant women. Has luteinizing and follicle-stimulating action. Stimulates the synthesis of sex hormones in the ovaries and testicles, ovulation, spermatogenesis, provides the function of the yellow body; stimulates the development of genital organs and secondary sexual characteristics.
Men may use HCG in following cases: hypogenitalism, eunuchoidism; hypoplasia of testicles, cryptorchidism; adipozogenital syndrome, pituitary fascism, sexual infantilism; oligoasthenospermia, azoospermia.