Dr. Lee, urologist male fertility specialist and leading doctor from Wuhan Dr. Lee TCM Clinic, who has specialized in reproductive health for more than 30 years, answers some frequently asked questions about prostate diseases.
What is prostate?
The prostate is part of the male reproductive system that located between the bladder and penis, it is about the size of a walnut.
What does a prostate do?
The prostate makes a fluid that is part of a man's ejaculate. This fluid nourishes and protects men's sperm. It makes PSA (short for Protein-specific antigen) protein to help sperm in the vaginal tract. Many studies have also shown that prostate helps breaking down a mucous plug found on the cervix, in this way, sperm can easily meet the eggs to achieve conception.
What is prostatitis?
Protatitis is one of the most common diseases in men, each year, more than 35000 men are diagnosed with prostatitis in the US. Generally speaking, prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate, acute baterial prostatitis, chronic baterial and non-bacterial prostatitis are the most common types of prostatitis. Caused by a baterail infection, acute prostatitis typically starts suddenly, and it can be effectively treated by antibiotics, however, chronic nonbacterial prostatitis is not caused by bacteria infection, and antibiotics won't work. In fact, you may not know that more than 95% of prostatitis cases are nonbacterial CPPS. If antibiotics are not the answer, then what is? According to the latest reports from NPS in this global Antibiotic Awareness Week (14-20 November 2016), antibiotic resistance is happening now, with increased rates of resistance being reported to many commonly-used antibiotics. And natural herbal medicine is generally considered as an effective prostatitis alternative treatment.
How to treat prostatitis?
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill is a patented herbal remedy for prostatitis, it can effectively treat baterail prostatitis and reduces pain and discomfort caused by prostatitis, additionally, it promotes blood circulation to dissolve statis, promotes Qi circulation to stop pain, preserves the kidneys and liver, dissipate hard lumps (damaged tissue or calcification spots), so as to finally curing chronic non-bacterial prostatitis at the end.