{"id":17013,"remedy_name":"20. Prostate Gland (HMT Index)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":["Mirza Tahir Ahmad Disease Index"],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"20. Prostate Gland \n \nEnlargement of the prostate gland results in some distinct urinary \nsymptoms and, at times, sexual weakness.  The patient cannot \ncompletely empty his bladder.  The urine stream becomes very weak \nand lacks full force.  This may lead to interruption of flow.  Soon after \npassing water, the patient feels like passing urine again.  The \nfrequency of urination is increased gradually, and the interval between \nurination is decreased.  Sometimes, the in terval is half an hour or less.  \nThe quantity becomes less and the patient is not relieved completely. \n \nFrequent urination is not always ne cessarily due to the enlargement of \nthe prostate but if it is, the treatment should be as follows. \n \nIf the frequency is considered to be due to the suppressed gonorrhoea, \nthen it should be treated with Thuja.  Start in a low potency and then \ngradually increase to CM potency.  Thuja also affects the Prostate \nGland.  It allays the burning sensati on in the urethra.  Therefore, this \nshould be considered the firs t remedy.  Among other illnesses \nreminiscent of Thuja, Asthma is the most prominent. Similarly, the \npresence of skin warts indicates T huja.  The peculiar symptoms of \nThuja include the burning sensation in the urethra with frequency of \nurination.  Another specific sympto m is the splitting of the urine \nstream into two, becoming one again on straining. \n \nThe other homoeopathic treatment for enlarged prostate is Silicea.  \nPotency CM works the best.  The only  condition is that  the patient is \nof cold constitution, and that the limb s feel very cold.  Silicea works \nequally well on the cancer of the pros tate and the bladder.  Two to \nthree doses of Silicea CM at interv als of seven to ten days, by God\u2019s \ngrace, will be found significantly effective. \n \nAnother good remedy for an enlarged pr ostate is Clematis.  It happens \nto work on the right-sided diseases, affecting for example, the right \nlimb, the right testis and the right ureter (the channel carrying urine \nfrom the kidney to the bladder).  The patient is always restless and \nwakes up to pass urine again and again.  Severe thirst can be quenched \nwith cold water.  Clematis offers only temporary relief of the urinary \nsymptoms, but does not cure them.  It  simply decreases the frequency.  \nInstead of going to the lavatory ev ery few minutes, the patient needs\nto go to the lavatory every two hours or so.  Still the feeling of passing \nurine may be very pressing.  The patient  has to run to th e lavatory.  It \nis thus necessary that the physic ian should look for other remedies \nbesides Clematis, to uproot the disease. \n \nWith the use of Clematis, it has been observed that the patient starts \npassing urine freely, though frequen tly.  It shows that the urine \nproblem was not due to the prostate, rather it was due to a kidney or \nbladder infection.  Clematis cannot cure the symptoms due to the \nprostatic obstruction.   \n \nUrinary problems in general are not always easily understood.  The \nsymptoms have to be analysed  and properly evaluated before \nsuggesting the appropriate remedies.  The few distinctive symptoms \nshould be well understood and remembered.  It is not necessary that \nevery remedy would prove effective.  This is why it is very difficult to \nfind the correct remedy.  It is im portant to know the distinctive \nfeatures of the illness.  Otherwise, it is impossible for the physician to \nrecognise the remedy for every illness. \n \nSometimes, the patient passes foul-smelling thick turbid urine \nindicative of an infection in urogenital tract i.e. the kidney, bladder, \nurethra, testes and uterus.  Treatme nt should be started promptly and \ncontinued long enough to control the infection.  The remedies most \nappropriate for this condition ar e: Thuja, Sulphur, Pyrogenium, \nPsorinum, Ferrum Phos, Silicea, Arsenic Album, Conium, Cannabis \nIndica, Phosphorus, Merc Cor, Saba l Serrulata, Staphysagria and \nChimaphila.  During the study of all these remedies, more may be \nfound cross referenced, e.g. Medorrhinum etc.","modalities":"Clinical reference formulas compiled from Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad's lecture compendiums.","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}