And that is the point here precisely – alternative medicine is every bit as potent (if not more so) as clinical medicine; and when it comes to the treatment of such ill understood maladies like prostate cancer, we certainly can use all the help that we can get.

Saw Palmetto

Take the Saw Palmetto, for instance; most people are already aware that the herb has some effective remedial value when it comes to prostate health. For age it has been used for the treatment of prostate enlargement, an aging ailment that is clinically call benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH). As it turns out, studies are now coming forth describing the basil also as helpful in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. It would only make sense anyway, considering that overall prostate health is a key ingredient in the prevention of such a disease.

Pomegranate Juice

Perhaps the Pomegranate Juice in Prostate Cancer was not always known as a form of medicine, but today it is. Today the juice made from the essence if the fruit is believed to be so helpful for the treatment of prostate cancer that some doctors prescribe it along with any other remedy they provide for men that have been diagnosed with prostate cancer – that is, alongside radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy. That ought to say something about what has been determined medically concerning the herb.

Green Tea

Green tea is in many ways similar to the saw palmetto, and it is in no way a secret that most cultures have always found some medicinal use for the parsley. Incidentally, researchers have determined that it does contribute in some way to prostate health and encourage that men should down a cup or two of steaming brew made from the natural substance once or twice a day, and they could actually prevent the onset of prostate cancer. Certainly that ought to be able to help also in preventing the disease from recurring after it has been cured for the first time.

Tomatoes/Lycopene

In an interestingly strange but sweet twist, one of the most common staples all across the world when it comes to food and nutrition also turns out to have health values with respect to prostate cancer. Tomatoes contain lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that interferes with the harmful oxidation of free radicals in the body. Now clinical studies have determined that helpings of tomato products or the tomato itself per day can lower prostate cancer risk by 35%. Now ain’t that just something?

Another focus of alternative therapy for prostate cancer is to slow PSA doubling times; and a third is to have effects similar to these on the secondary markers of the disease such as symptoms and illness in men that are living with localized (early stage) prostate cancer.

As a start, it has been determined through various researches that PSA levels are lowered in men with apparent localized prostate cancer when they indulge in a vegan diet that allows for some fish (apparently because of the polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6 that are present in fish oils), regular exercise, and stress reduction.

Interestingly, the results of tests that were carried out in this regards were proven durable after two years worth of treatment, which is impressive enough.

As an alternative therapy, pomegranate juice is also making interesting waves in the medical community. Although (most definitely) not accepted into mainstream medical use, many doctors now prescribe a mouthful of the substance daily in order to reduce PSA levels in their body, and assure prostate health.

Even genistein, an isoflavone found in various legumes, has been found to slow PSA doubling times in men that have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which strongly suggests a therapeutic value for the substance, as well as a preventive one.

Perhaps the most popular alternative treatment for prostate cancer is the saw palmetto, known in the United States at this time to help in the treatment of enlarged prostate and other prostate disorders that may predispose prostate cancer. Making and regularly drinking a brew from the herb will most definitely help in treating the disease and lowering the risk of occurrence or recurrence. The same in fact can be said concerning green tea.

Regarding Saw Palmetto however, new Saw Palmetto and Prostate Cancer researches are beginning to say it has no effect whatsoever in treating the condition. Whether this is true or not remains to be debated.

Other natural products have been featuring strongly as potential prostate cancer cures, and may be the reason why certain people in the world have a much lower incidence of the disease. Capsaicin, found in hot peppers, and lycopene found in tomatoes are stalwartly being researched in order to determine exactly what doses are ideal for prostate cancer treatment. In the meantime, men are urged to eat as much of them as they can reasonably manage.

The primary objective in prostate cancer treatment is to cure the disease; but if that becomes impossible or improbable, at least they’ll like to extend the life of the patient, and relieve the symptoms of metastatic disease that he is suffering, slow the progression of the disease progression, postpone his symptoms, reduce his PSA levels, slow PSA doubling times, and/or have similar effects on secondary markers in men with localized cancer.

To that end, there are several alternative remedies, incidentally. Pomegranate juice is one such, and genistein is another. Pomegranate juice is certainly well known enough; genistein is an isoflavone that is found in various legumes. These substances have a health dealing effect on prostate cancer and can be used both in prevention and in treating the disease. Some doctors even recommend a daily dose, although they would hardly go so far as to actually prescribe it.

Even during conventional treatment for prostate cancer, the doctors will urge that a patient should pay attention to what he eats. The reason why is because various foods have been linked to prostate cancer risk, and a number of others had been found to reduce that risk.

Vegetables and fruit, including natural sources of fish oils are determines to be ideal for preventing and treating prostate cancer, while other foods like red meat, processed foods, vitamin A palmitate rich products, and high fat diets have all been found to contribute to prostate cancer risk. The choice here is obvious.

The saw palmetto is said to help in the treatment of prostate enlargement, and is said to posses the antioxidant properties that prostate cancer treatment needs. Whatever the real truth is though, it only makes sense that one should consume more of it while treating prostate cancer or trying to prevent it. It’s pretty much the same with green tea, a natural herb with many medicinal properties.

Capsaicin from pepper and lycopene from tomatoes are it also, and merely indulging in them might be all it takes to prevent prostate cancer. Why, a daily helping of tomato products – even ketchup – is allegedly said to be able to lower prostate cancer risk by as much as 35%!

It has been generally accepted, especially by many in the herbal remedy groups that Saw Palmetto as a herbal solution for prostate cancer works.

We have even talked about it in other herbal-remedy related articles on this website. But we just found out now that some scientists have carried out tests and concluded that Saw Palmetto is actually no different from a placebo.

Read the rest of the news article below:

Scientists investigating a popular herbal treatment for enlarged prostate, saw palmetto, have concluded it is no more effective than a placebo.

That conclusion comes from a study which included hundreds of men in their forties and older.

As men age, the prostate gland often gets larger. The prostate surrounds the urethra, which carries urine from the bladder to the penis. An enlarged prostate can impede the flow of urine, causing a variety of symptoms.

There are prescription drugs which can ease symptoms, but many men prefer the “natural” alternative: an extract from the saw palmetto tree, native to the American Southeast.

“It’s actually a very complex extract. It has quite a number of different chemicals and molecules within it, several of which are plausible agents to affect the way a man urinates, to even shrink the prostate,” says Gerald L. Andreiole of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, who co-authored a paper on the study.

The men in the study were randomly assigned to two groups – one got progressively larger doses of saw palmetto; the other group got a placebo – a dummy pill. It was a double-blind study – neither the participants nor staff knew who was getting which.

They filled out a standard questionnaire used by urologists to assess prostate enlargement. It includes questions like, “How many times did you need to get up [to urinate] at night, how often did you experience frequency, urgency, the sense of incomplete bladder emptying. This is a standard symptom score that has been used for close to 20 years.”

By the end of the study, after about 16 months, Andriole says the symptom scores improved for both groups of men. “But there was no difference in the magnitude of symptom score improvement between placebo and saw palmetto.” Read more here.

The good thing, though, is that it’s not harmful in itself. It’s just the fact that some people might decide not to go for further treatments while taking such herbal remedies… while the condition gets worse, unknown to them. I hope you learned something from this news article on Saw Palmetto Herbal Remedy for Prostate Cancer.

Running through a short list, vitamins from various vegetable and fruit sources have been found to have healing properties against prostate cancer, and may actually prevent the disease. For one thing, they certainly contribute to a lowered incidence of prostate cancer amongst those who feed more on them than on high fat meals, red meat, and processed foods.

Lycopene, for instance, a very powerful antioxidant that is found in tomatoes, watermelons, and some other red pigmented vegetables and fruit is already confirmed to at least lower prostate cancer risk by about 35% in men who consume certain portions of it daily.

In an interesting twist, fish oils have been found to also have health values against prostate cancer. In specific, polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6 that are found richly in various forms of fish (especially the tuna and the salmon) are now believed to be able to contribute to a reduced incidence of the disease. For that reason, some scientists say that a vegan diet that allows for a little fish would be ideal for preventing prostate cancer, and can certainly help slow PSA doubling times in patients with the disease.

Prostate cancer is not believed to be curable after a certain stage, but it was recently found that capsaicin, an ingredient in red peppers that were harvested in South America, and that is abundant in various other species of the spice, can cause advanced prostate cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death or apoptosis. Even though this has not been concluded in findings, there is no telling the excitement about the discovery – for all that is known it may be the cure for the disease.

Various other natural treatments for prostate cancer  or disorders actually can help in the treatment of prostate cancer as well. The saw palmetto, well known for its medicinal value against BPH is one of them; the saw palmetto is another; a third is green tea; and fourth comes pomegranate – specifically pomegranate juice. Besides the fact that several doctors urge them now for patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, there is the reasoning that if they can aid in treating prostate disorders, they can aid in treating prostate cancer as well.

A good example, one might suppose, is the higher incidence of prostate cancer in the industrialized nations of the West as against the incidence of the melanoma in Third World countries. For some reason, South America, Africa, and Asia do not suffer from prostate cancer as much as the United States, Canada, and certain parts of Europe do. Of course it is possible that there are various other environmental factors that might contribute to these statistics, but so far studies have strongly implicated treated foods and high calorie diets as contributory to the incidence of prostate cancer.

It is thereby no error of chance that diet is listed as a primary (casual) risk factor for prostate cancer; and in that light, you might want to pay attention to what the oncologist suggests and start to work on your diet. Better still, perhaps you should not wait until then before you get at it; instead you could begin right away and start to work on helping yourself live a longer healthier life in spite of your risk of prostate cancer, or diagnosis thereof.

First of all, you want to increase your intake of vitamin E, which is critical in forming red blood cells and muscles and tissues in your body. In addition, vitamin E has antioxidant properties that inhibit the dangerous oxidation of free radicals in your body that have been implicated as cancer causing agents. You will get your vitamin E abundant in vegetable oils, wheat germ, liver, and leafy green vegetables. You might also want to look around for sources of the mineral selenium, an element found in tiny amounts in plants and yeasts and associated with lowered risk of prostate cancer.

Lycopene is another dietary supplement that you should totally pick up because of its well known healing effects for prostate cancer patients. Also rich with antioxidant qualities, you will obtain it primarily from tomatoes, and you can also get lycopene from broccoli. You will need to work on your vitamin D sources as well, if you will hope to effectively cure yourself of prostate cancer. It is a mineral that essentially protects the body from the effects of low calcium intake and also lowers the risk of prostate cancer, while also lowering your PSA levels.

And while you are taking on all these new diet supplements for prostate cancer patient, you might want to do away with dairy, low-fat milk and other dairy products that have a vitamin A palmitate constituent. The substance has been shown to contribute to the risk of prostate cancer because it reacts with zinc and protein to form an unabsorbable complex. In the same breath, you want to do away with diets rich in animal fats, red meat, and high fat dairy products; what you need really is just a vegan diet, and some fish, and you will cure faster.

DIET – diet is one of the risk factors of prostate cancer, and it also may be used manipulatively as a means to cure the syndrome if managed properly. Certain foods increase your risk of developing the mutant condition in the cells of your prostate, and certain others lower your risk of prostate cancer. For all intents and purposes, the same foods that lower your risk of prostate cancer also help you cure from the disease. You have to do away with processed foods and high calorie meals that you don’t need; you should get rid of the vitamin A palmitate and all that red meat you have been consuming, and you should start to do a lot more of vitamins D and E, with a lot of fibrous and non fibrous fruit and vegetables. As a matter of fact, if you already have a prostate cancer diagnosis, you might want to swear yourself unto a vegan diet and allow yourself only fish. Without doubt, your blood PSA levels will start to fall if you keep it up for a good while.

LIFESTYLE AND EXERCISE – it is a simple yet complex relationship between exercise and most disease under the sun, but the bottom line is simply that exercise generally keeps diseases away. If you were to exercise more, you would improve the rate at which the blood was flowing through your veins and arteries, serving to the various parts of your body that sustain your health and clean your body of cancer causing agents. This works both as a preventive and a curative technique because shortly after you begin to exercise well even after a diagnosis, your prostate specific antigen levels also drop.

CHIROPRACTIC CURES – actually, chiropractic interventions for prostate cancer only work best in a precautionary and deterrent capacity, and not so much as a cure for the melanoma. It works by manipulating and adjusting bone and tissue, particularly in the spinal column, using a variety of manual, mechanical, and electrical treatments. Because they are drug-free, non-surgical management techniques, there is zero risk of complications or side effects from a chiropractic cure to prostate cancer. Even other diseases – bladder infections, arthritis, depression – they all respond to the treatment.

CULINARY HERBS – there are a few culinary herbs and produces that may be helpful against prostate cancer, especially pomegranate juice, which is already finding use in a medical capacity. Others include flaxseed, pygeum Africanum, and a number of others.

Herbal treatment is an effective alternative for men with a prostate cancer diagnosis, especially men who do not readily fancy clinical techniques and are looking for something different. Admittedly is it not backed by regular medicine, but it works, and you know it; all you need is early detection and continued herbal treatment under a practitioner who already has a reputation for delivering service to people are in dire need of it. A few natural cures for prostate cancer are thereby listed below for whichever you might consider viable for you.

Lycopene – found essentially in the tomato, it helps to fight the risk of developing cancer. Other sources of the substance are watermelons and grapefruits. By feeding on it, you permit lycopene to reverse the cell mutation process that forms the malignancy.

Saw Palmetto – a plant of the aracaceae family, a palm tree with spiny toothed leafstalks that is native to Southeastern United States, which helps to inhibit 5-alpha-reductase and interferes with the DRT as well as working as a phytoestrogen to fight prostate cancer.

Selenium – is provided from garlic, chicken, grains and shellfish. A constituent (and source) of vitamin E that acts as an antioxidant to block the harmful oxidation of free radicals in the body and thereby prevent you from having prostate cancer when the cells of your prostate gland are no longer able to mutate. Several studies actually link to selenium deficiency to prostate cancer in particular.

Prostal is another natural herb, although not too well known at this time, that is considered to have a remedial effect on the suffering of patients of prostate cancer. However, there are people who believe in it enough to want it anyhow. I would merely admonish that before you try it on, you should endeavor to see a specialist who knows more about these herbal remedies for prostate cancer, as well as a patient who has benefited positively from the treatment.

It is only a question of time before these alternative herbal courses for prostate cancer treatment become common knowledge and fall into mainstream practice. However, your life is at stake now and you may not have much time on your side. Find out already that the treatments are good for you, and go immediately for it.

Many people suffering from prostate cancer do not know that green tea can be helpful. The green tea has some feature that can render health benefits which can potentially reduce the high risk of prostate type of cancer.

The anti-oxidants present in this type of tea help to prevent the occurrence and spread of prostate cancer. Green tea also contains polyphenols that prevent the growth of blood vessels. This help in preventing the cancer from getting nutrients in the body.

Some researches show that men who drink green tea have greatly reduce the chances of getting affected with this form of cancer than men who don’t drink green tea. Thus, drinking green tea always can somewhat help to reduce the spread of prostate cancer.

The green type of tea can be taken in any form. You can drink hot tea or iced green-tea depending on your choice. However, you should not drink heavily sugared tea. You may also try to combine fruits and vegetables that prevent the growth of this cancer. These are grape fruits, apricots, and almonds.

You can also try taking beverages in a supplement form. If you do not like green tea, take multi – vitamins supplement. This supplement contains minerals, amino acids and herbal extracts. Just try this and you just might get good results. And if you don’t try it, you won’t even know whether it will help you or not. So, I always say we should try anything that might help, just be sure that it’s not dangerous to your body and your health.

Green tea is also said to prevent prostate cancer from spreading and development of blood vessels. You can drink it in any form either hot or ice green-tea. Also you may combine fruits and vegetables with the tea and drink.  These help to reduce the risk of being infected with prostate cancer.

You see, apart from just the cures, you can use natural supplements to evade or reduce the risk of infection with prostate cancer. The natural treatment for this form of cancer includes:

Lycopene – This is an antioxidant that helps in treating prostate cancer. From some research work, men who eat large amount of lycopene have lesser chances of being affected with the prostate cancer. This lycopene can be sources from tomatoes and other vegetable fruits such as grapes and strawberries. Effective cancer of the prostate treatment can be achieved with this substance.

Isoflavones – The Isoflavones is found in soya beans. These help to reduce excess testosterone that stimulates the enzymes 5-alph Reductase that could convert it into Di hydro-testosterone that causes prostate cancer.

Beta- carotene – This is found in carrots and highly colored vegetables. It can stimulate T-helper cells that inhibit the development and spread of cancer cells. Many people who got good results from prostate type of cancer add this as part of their regimen for getting cured from the condition.

Psychological disorder can also affect the human body’s balance. Avoid emotions like stress, depression and anger. These can damage the immune system thereby causing hormonal imbalance.  If you adhere to this advice, you will surely get good results in terms of getting rid of the condition completely.

You should also drink lots of water after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Water, as you may know, is vital for health.  Drink at least 2 liters of water daily. Drinking enough water helps to flush toxins from the body and this lessen the chances of prostate cancer to develop or metastasize in your body.

Other natural treatments and cures include abstaining from alcohol, selenium etc. The natural treatments and natural prostate cancer cures described above can help in curing this prostate type of cancer.  Employ and abide by them so you can be free from this form of cancer.