Homeopathy For Prostate Enlargement
The prostate is a walnut-sized gland that forms part of the male reproductive system. The gland is made of two lobes, or regions, enclosed by an outer layer of tissue. As the diagrams show, the prostate is located in front of the rectum and just below the bladder, where urine is stored. The prostate also surrounds the urethra, the canal through which urine passes out of the body.
Scientists do not know all the prostate's functions. One of its main roles, though, is to squeeze fluid into the urethra as sperm move through during sexual climax. This fluid, which helps make up semen, energizes the sperm and makes the vaginal canal less acidic.
Symptoms-
Many symptoms of BPH stem from obstruction of the urethra and gradual loss of bladder function, which results in incomplete emptying of the bladder. The symptoms of BPH vary, but the most common ones involve changes or problems with urination, such as
1.Hesitant, interrupted, weak stream
2.Urgency and leaking or dribbling
3.Frequent urination, especially at night
The size of the prostate does not always determine how severe the obstruction or the symptoms will be. Some men with greatly enlarged glands have little obstruction and few symptoms while others, whose glands are less enlarged, have more blockage and greater problems.
It is important to tell your doctor about urinary problems such as those described above. In eight out of 10 cases, these symptoms suggest BPH, but they also can signal other, more serious conditions that require prompt treatment. These conditions, including prostate cancer, can be ruled out only by a doctor's examination.
Complications-
1. Severe BPH can cause serious problems over time. Urine retention and strain on the bladder can lead to urinary tract infections, bladder or kidney damage, bladder stones, and incontinence?the inability to control urination.
2. If the bladder is permanently damaged, treatment for BPH may be ineffective.
Remedies-
Homeopathy offers very good treatment for benign prostate
hypertrophy.
Some of the medicines commonly used for this condition are:
1. Sabal serrulata [Sabal ser]
Sabal is
homeopathic to irritability of the genito-urinary organs. It has general and sexual
debility and it promotes nutrition and tissue building. Here patient has
constant desire to pass water at night. Chronic gonorrh?a. Difficult urination
with cystitis and prostatic hypertrophy. Prostatic
troubles; enlargement along with discharge of prostatic fluid. Wasting
of testes and loss of sexual power. Coitus
painful at the time of emission.
2. Thuja [Thuja]
Thuja has pain and burning felt near neck of
bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Also one of the best
remedies for Prostatic enlargement. Urine stream is split and small. Sensation
of urine trickling in bladder after urinating. Severe cutting pain after
passing urine. Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and
urgent, but cannot be controlled.
3. Ferrum-picricum [Ferrum pic]
Ferrum pic acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric,
with sensitive livers It is considered a great remedy to complete the action of
other medicines. The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the
function of an organ under exertion; e g the voice fails after public speaking.
Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration. Senile hypertrophy of the prostate is one of its leading indications. Patient has frequent micturition at night,
with full feeling and pressure in rectum.
Smarting pain at neck of bladder and penis
4. Baryta-carbonica [Baryta carb]
This remedy is specially indicated in infancy and old age. This remedy is indicated if they
are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish. Diseases of old men when
degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral;-who have
hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive
foot-sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something.
Very averse to meeting strangers. Every time patient urinates, his piles come
down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.
5. Copaiva Officinalis [Copaiva]
Copaiva has burning pressure; painful micturition by drops.
Retention, with pain in bladder, anus, and rectum. Catarrh
of bladder with dysuria. Swelling of orifice. Constant desire to
urinate. Urine smells very offensive. Greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent
odor.
6. Populus-tremuloides [Populus]
Usually indicated in troubles of
old people with gastric and digestive troubles. Severe tenesmus and
painful scalding. Urine contains mucus and pus. Prostate enlarged. Pain behind
pubis; at end of urination.
7. Staphisagria [Staph]
It is one of the chief remedies
for prostatic problems in man with Ill effects of
anger and insults. There is sensation as if a
drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel. Burning in urethra
during micturition. Prostatic troubles with frequent urination and burning in
urethra when not urinating Urging and pain after urinating.
8. Conium Maculatum
[Conium]
In
conium there is much difficulty in voiding urine. It flows and stops again.
Interrupted discharge. Dribbling in old men with desire increased and power
decreased. Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection. Effects
of suppressed sexual appetite.
9.
Hydrangea Arborescens [Hydrangea]
Its
chief action is on Urinary tract system. There is burning in urethra and
frequent desire. Heavy deposit of mucus in urine. Great thirst with abdominal
symptoms and enlarged prostate Profuse deposit of white
amorphous salts in urine.
