Clinically, chronic bacterial prostatitis accounts for approximately 10% of all cases. Its clinical symptoms vary among patients, which may be related to the acute bacterial prostatitis or follow the infection near the prostate gland, such as seminal vesiculitis, cystitis, epididymitis and so forth.
Usually, there are many drugs can be used to treat chronic bacterial prostatitis, involving antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. You should know that these drugs can easily cause side effects. So there are also many people seeking no-side-effect treatments. Among them, herbal therapy is often suggested. There are five often used herbal ingredients for you.
1. Plantain seed
It is showed that the water-soaked with it has varying degrees of inhibition on various bacterial viruses. And the plantain seed features a clear diuretic effect, which can improve the increase of water excretion and enhance the excretion of urea, uric acid as well as sodium chloride.
2. Houttuynia cordata
Houttuynia cordata is usually seen as a natural antibiotic. A kind of yellow oily substance extracted from this herb features an obvious inhibitory ability to solve various bacteria in vitro. It can also react on e.coli, quercetin, isoquercetin and so on. What’s more, other flavonoids in houttuynia cordata also have a great anti-inflammatory function, which can deeply inhibit the early stage of inflammation. Therefore, it does have an obvious preventive effect on symptoms of prostatitis.
3. Cortex phellodendrin
The pharmacological studies show that cortex phellodendrin has the functions of killing bacteria, dispelling inflammation, antipyretic and antiviral microorganisms. It is able to terminate the common intestinal bacteria like e.coli.
4. Dandelion
This belongs to a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, whose medical value has been accepted in many medical books. And it is easy to find and gain it, since it is distributed in many field and features a good reputation of natural antibiotics.
5. Argy wormwood leaf
The pharmacological studies of current medication think that argy wormwood leaf is a herb that is broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral. It is able to dispel massive bacteria and viruses. In today’s society, argy wormwood leaf has become more convenient and effective for more patients to try.
The herbs mentioned above have a good preventive and improving effect on chronic bacterial prostatitis, but you should also know that the etiology and pathogenesis of prostatitis are still complicated, and the efficacy of a single herb is limited, and long-term use may have certain side effects on the human body.
