19-01-2012, 21:52
In my opinion, yes. But this is controversial. PC is made industrially from diosgenin. Wild yam and fenugreek contain diosgenin. Originally, people started taking diosgenin hoping it would increase progesterone, but no direct biochemical path has been found that makes progesterone from diosgenin.
However, there are studies that see an increase in serum progesterone and prolactin from oral diosgenin.
http://journals.sfu.ca/africanem/index.php/ajtcam/article/viewArticle/868
http://www.sid.ir/En/ViewPaper.asp?ID=32334&varStr=27;AL-CHALABII%20I.;YAKHTEH;SUMMER%202005;7;SUPPLEMENT%201;50;50
However, there are studies that see an increase in serum progesterone and prolactin from oral diosgenin.
http://journals.sfu.ca/africanem/index.php/ajtcam/article/viewArticle/868
http://www.sid.ir/En/ViewPaper.asp?ID=32334&varStr=27;AL-CHALABII%20I.;YAKHTEH;SUMMER%202005;7;SUPPLEMENT%201;50;50