ArticleCurrent urology reports2002
Phytotherapy and other alternative forms of care for the patient with prostatitis.
Article in Current urology reports, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Role of ButirprostMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Trial
- Acupuncture relieves symptoms in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a randomized, sham-controlled trial.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2015Trial
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- [Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Influence of osteopathic treatment - a randomized controlled study].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2009Trial
- Preliminary experience with a terpene mixture versus ibuprofen for treatment of category III chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.World journal of urology · 2006Trial
- Clinical phenotyping in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis: a management strategy for urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2009Article
- A pilot study on acupuncture for lower urinary tract symptoms related to chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain.Chinese medicine · 2007Article
- What patients take without telling you: holistic approach for BPH.World journal of urology · 2006Review
- Complementary and alternative medicine for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2005Article
- Chronic pelvic pain syndrome: diagnosis and management.Current urology reports · 2003Review
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Abstract
Chronic prostatitis is a very common and poorly understood condition with significant impact on quality of life. Given the lack of proven efficacy of conventional therapies such as antibiotics, it is not surprising that patients have turned with increasing frequency to phytotherapy and other alternative treatments. Although alternative therapies are plentiful, few have been subjected to scientific scrutiny and prospective controlled clinical trials. This review discusses therapies commonly used by patients with prostatitis and focuses in detail on those with published data. These treatments include zinc, cernitin pollen extract (bee pollen), quercetin, saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), and acupuncture. Complementary therapies may indeed have much to offer patients, particularly those with chronic degenerative conditions in which allopathic therapies have proven less successful. Alternative therapies, however, require the same scientific criteria for validation and acceptance as do conventional medical therapies.
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