Dietetic Chinese Drugs for Enlarged Prostate (Image)

1) Polished glutinous rice (Semen Oryzae Glutinosae)
Make pancakes with the flour of polished glutinous rice and take a right amount of it with yellow rice or millet wine at bedtime. It is used to treat frequent urination resulting from Prostatic Hyperplasia.

2) Plantain seed (Semen Plantaginis)
Decoct 15g of it and take the decoction as a drink.  It is used to treat Prostatic Hyperplasia marked by the type of stagnation of damp-heat.

3) Waxgourd (Fructus Benincasae)
Make 1500ml of soup out of 500g of waxgourd and take it in three separate doses.  It is applicable to prostatic hyperplasia marked, by the type of stagnation of damp-heat.

4) Towel gourd (Fructus Luffae)
Grind it into powder after being burned but nature-retaining old towel gourd, which is, to be taken with warm boiled water, 5 to 10g each time. Its indications are the same as those of waxgourd.

5) River snail (Cipangopaludina Chinensis)
It is to be eaten boiled.  Its indications are the same as those of waxgourd.