Make Your Own Natural Prostate Remedies.

You can make your own natural prostate remedies – and tidy your garden at the same time! Some of the commonest weeds are actually powerful health-giving herbs. You don’t have to be a herbalist to use them for natural prostate health.

Nettles, burdock, couch grass, horsetail – if you have a garden you probably have a running battle with at least one of these. Also red clover, shepherd’s purse, white dead nettle and willowherb. All of these are herbs for prostate treatment.

So learn to love your weeds and use them for your health!

The simplest way to use herbs is as an infusion, or tea – that is, just pour boiling water over a few fresh or dried leaves, leave it to steep for a few minutes, strain and drink. This is the best way to use willowherb, one of the best natural prostate remedies. (Rosebay willowherb and the small-flowered varieties are all good.) The famous Austrian herbalist Maria Treben used to recommend the small-flowered willowherb tea to her patients with enlarged prostate symptoms – with great success.

Nettles are one of the best known of weeds – who hasn’t been stung? Even very small children quickly learn to recognise and avoid it. But nettle is also an amazing herb for food and medicine. The leaves are rich in iron and can be used as food (nettle soup, nettle pudding) or drunk as a tea, but it is the roots that are one of the most useful natural prostate remedies. As roots are much tougher than leaves, it takes more than just steeping in hot water to release the goodness. You have to simmer them for about ten minutes (having scrubbed them thoroughly first, of course). This is what herbalists call a ‘decoction’. It’s a method often used with medicinal roots and bark.

You probably don’t need to be told to wear suitable gloves when harvesting nettles, but once you’ve separated the roots from the top parts you’ll be safe – the roots don’t sting.

Nettle root is one of the best herbs for enlarged prostate treatment. It’s readily available, fairly easy to prepare, safe (apart from stings!), effective – and completely free! It is one of the best for shrinking an enlarged prostate. You can use it with other herbs, which ease the symptoms of BPH, while the nettle root gradually reduces your prostate to normal size.

Another root that makes a good natural prostate remedy is burdock. It’s rather harder to dig up than nettle roots as the taproot can grow to a metre long. The root is often used as a vegetable, like carrots or parsnips, in some countries – particularly Japan. As a medicine, burdock root decoction helps relieve a swollen prostate.

If you are interested in making your own herbal medicines, a wonderful book to get you started is ‘Hedgerow Medicine’ by Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal. (Published in Britain by Merlin Unwin - telephone 01584 877456). The book is a work of art, with beautiful, clear photographs on every page. All the natural prostate remedies mentioned here are described in detail in the book.

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