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Health food stores carry a number of herbal treatments that are marketed to treat prostate enlargement, including red clover, saw palmetto, pygeum africanum, stinging nettle, beta-sitosterol and rye-grass pollen (cernilton). But only saw palmetto has been studied in large, long-term trials and proved to show some effectiveness. However, scientific data is still lacking.
Saw palmetto is extracted from the ripened berries of the saw palmetto shrub, has been used by millions of men to ease BPH symptoms and is often recommended as an alternative to drug-based medication. A fat-soluble saw palmetto extract with 85-95% fatty acids and sterols is the usual form taken. The most common dosage is 160 mg. twice daily if you have prostate trouble. The daily dosage range is 80 - 320 mg.
Note: a well-conducted study published in the February 9, 2006 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine found that saw palmetto was no better than a dummy pill in relieving the signs and symptoms of BPH.
As most cases (90%) of prostatitis are non-bacterial in orgin, antibiotics are of limited use.
An anti-inflammatory containing a standardized combination of extracts of turmeric, ginger, Holy Basil, green tea, rosemary, skullcap, and oregano.
A powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory claimed to be effective in dealing with category III prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome.