Alternative Medicine

A range of dietary supplements and herbal medicines claim to offer new methods in prevention or treatment of prostate disease. A quantity of supplements promise and are slowly gaining acceptance in conventional medicine. But even now, the benefits and risks of many products and practices remain unproved and untested. Unfortunately, the manufacturing of these products isn’t well standardized and the amount of active element may vary from one bottle to another bottle or even from pill to pill.

According to research, herbal goods marketed to alleviate common prostate problems, such as frequent urination or a weak urine flow, include:

§                  African plum tree (Prunus africana) §                  African wild potato (Hypoxis hemerocallidea, Hypoxis rooperi) §                  Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) §                  Rye grass (Secale cereale) §                  Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica, Urtica urens)