# 20. Prostate Gland (HMT Index)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Mirza Tahir Ahmad Disease Index
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
20. Prostate Gland 
 
Enlargement of the prostate gland results in some distinct urinary 
symptoms and, at times, sexual weakness.  The patient cannot 
completely empty his bladder.  The urine stream becomes very weak 
and lacks full force.  This may lead to interruption of flow.  Soon after 
passing water, the patient feels like passing urine again.  The 
frequency of urination is increased gradually, and the interval between 
urination is decreased.  Sometimes, the in terval is half an hour or less.  
The quantity becomes less and the patient is not relieved completely. 
 
Frequent urination is not always ne cessarily due to the enlargement of 
the prostate but if it is, the treatment should be as follows. 
 
If the frequency is considered to be due to the suppressed gonorrhoea, 
then it should be treated with Thuja.  Start in a low potency and then 
gradually increase to CM potency.  Thuja also affects the Prostate 
Gland.  It allays the burning sensati on in the urethra.  Therefore, this 
should be considered the firs t remedy.  Among other illnesses 
reminiscent of Thuja, Asthma is the most prominent. Similarly, the 
presence of skin warts indicates T huja.  The peculiar symptoms of 
Thuja include the burning sensation in the urethra with frequency of 
urination.  Another specific sympto m is the splitting of the urine 
stream into two, becoming one again on straining. 
 
The other homoeopathic treatment for enlarged prostate is Silicea.  
Potency CM works the best.  The only  condition is that  the patient is 
of cold constitution, and that the limb s feel very cold.  Silicea works 
equally well on the cancer of the pros tate and the bladder.  Two to 
three doses of Silicea CM at interv als of seven to ten days, by God’s 
grace, will be found significantly effective. 
 
Another good remedy for an enlarged pr ostate is Clematis.  It happens 
to work on the right-sided diseases, affecting for example, the right 
limb, the right testis and the right ureter (the channel carrying urine 
from the kidney to the bladder).  The patient is always restless and 
wakes up to pass urine again and again.  Severe thirst can be quenched 
with cold water.  Clematis offers only temporary relief of the urinary 
symptoms, but does not cure them.  It  simply decreases the frequency.  
Instead of going to the lavatory ev ery few minutes, the patient needs
to go to the lavatory every two hours or so.  Still the feeling of passing 
urine may be very pressing.  The patient  has to run to th e lavatory.  It 
is thus necessary that the physic ian should look for other remedies 
besides Clematis, to uproot the disease. 
 
With the use of Clematis, it has been observed that the patient starts 
passing urine freely, though frequen tly.  It shows that the urine 
problem was not due to the prostate, rather it was due to a kidney or 
bladder infection.  Clematis cannot cure the symptoms due to the 
prostatic obstruction.   
 
Urinary problems in general are not always easily understood.  The 
symptoms have to be analysed  and properly evaluated before 
suggesting the appropriate remedies.  The few distinctive symptoms 
should be well understood and remembered.  It is not necessary that 
every remedy would prove effective.  This is why it is very difficult to 
find the correct remedy.  It is im portant to know the distinctive 
features of the illness.  Otherwise, it is impossible for the physician to 
recognise the remedy for every illness. 
 
Sometimes, the patient passes foul-smelling thick turbid urine 
indicative of an infection in urogenital tract i.e. the kidney, bladder, 
urethra, testes and uterus.  Treatme nt should be started promptly and 
continued long enough to control the infection.  The remedies most 
appropriate for this condition ar e: Thuja, Sulphur, Pyrogenium, 
Psorinum, Ferrum Phos, Silicea, Arsenic Album, Conium, Cannabis 
Indica, Phosphorus, Merc Cor, Saba l Serrulata, Staphysagria and 
Chimaphila.  During the study of all these remedies, more may be 
found cross referenced, e.g. Medorrhinum etc.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Clinical reference formulas compiled from Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad's lecture compendiums.

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