Get with the Flow: Herbs for Prostate Health

» DancingFirefly - How about prevention?

An excellent article, thank you.

My father-in-law has just finished a course of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. They caught it early, and hopefully got it all. His brother died of it several years ago.

So, I've been encouraging my husband (age 34) to take some "prostate health enhancing" tea once or twice a week. The ingredients are green tea, fennel seed, extracts of saw palmetto, pygeum, pumpkin seed, soy, korean (panax) ginseng plus natural raspberry flavor, ginseng root, peppermint, caraway seed, lavendar flowers, and rosemary.

Based on my (very rudimentary) herbal studies, I rather thought this blend looked unlikely to hurt at that dosage, and with some potential to help.

Any thoughts on whether something like this is worth doing prevention-wise? Is there any reason to think there could be ill effects from taking this approach?

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» cit3 - prevention

the combination you speak of is actually a good choice. Less is known about pumpkin seed, etc. but they have had historical benefit. Since prostate cancer is a testosterone-dependent cancer, one could surmise that blocking the enzyme that makes testosterone more potent (like saw palmetto does) you would have a more hostile environment for prostate cancers to grow. I wish more research would be done on it. It wouldn't be hard to do. Also I don't think there is anything in there that would harm your husband. Make sure he has regular PSA testing at the doctor's office, okay? chris traxler

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» DancingFirefly - Thanks

I'll keep at him about going to the dr, too. I think the last time I successfully dragged him to the dr, though, was to get the required premarital blood tests done. Stubborn fella. :-(

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