When it comes to prostate cancer, people must think that it is another big, bad disease that will soon kill them. Is this really the case? Let’s take a look at the results of a foreign study.
Taking the prostate as an example, an autopsy of men who died of non-cancerous conditions revealed that 8% of 100 men younger than 30 years old had a few prostate tumors; 50% in the 60 year old age group and 80% in those over 70 years old. However, those with identifiable symptoms were very few, and only 1% of men aged 60 to 70 years had significant prostate tumors. This shows that it is very easy to detect tumor cells in the human body under the microscope, but it is not easy to confirm the diagnosis of tumor disease and needs to be considered carefully.
Prostate cancer is naturally predominant in older men, but could these cancers be related to certain prostate diseases or certain sexual behaviors that older men had when they were younger? The fact that there is no clear research data to show that there is some kind of inevitable link, but excessive sexual intercourse, acute and chronic prostatitis, prostate hypertrophy, prostate cysts, prostate nodules and other conditions of improper treatment, aggravated by the clinical symptoms of prostate disease, such as poor urination, difficult urination or even impassable, perineal pain, lower abdominal pain, lumbosacral pain, blood in the urine, constipation, etc., it is easy for middle-aged and elderly men to consider medical intervention and treatment. The need for medical intervention will certainly lead to the chances of being diagnosed with prostate cancer. The most important thing is to prevent the occurrence of prostate disease at a young age to reduce the chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
So, what can be done to reduce the incidence of prostate disease? A good lifestyle is one of the most valuable preventive care components. The following 21 types of bad lifestyles have been found to be important and should be avoided: sedentary, lack of exercise, excessive drinking, drinking after sex, overeating (including obesity), impure sex, holding back sperm without ejaculation, excessive masturbation, excessive intercourse, intercourse after overwork, intercourse at the beginning of illness, holding urine for a long time, unclean diet (including excessive spicy food, excessive meat), overwork, irregular intercourse, abuse of aphrodisiac drugs, mental tension, and so on. Abuse of aphrodisiac drugs, mental tension, depression, staying up late, long hours of driving, weakness, abuse of antibacterial drugs (antibiotics).
Prostate cancer and women’s health.
The prostate gland is a unique gland with internal and external secretion function, the external secretion is “prostatic fluid”, which is the main component of semen, so many patients with prostatitis will have abnormal semen such as poor semen liquefaction, weak sperm, etc. thus affecting the reproductive function. This is a big question and involves the different effects of various different prostate diseases. In the case of prostate cancer alone, it is inevitable that at least the semen contaminated with prostate cancer cells will not be present in the vagina and contaminate the female genital tract. There is no evidence, at least not yet, of a direct link between this and whether it causes “inflammation” or “cancer” in women. However, those abnormal semen will certainly have a negative effect on women’s physiological health, so when the problem arises, timely intervention and treatment with Chinese herbal medicine should be a good choice. The actual fact is that there is no direct basis to prove that prostatitis and prostate enlargement are directly related to the development of prostate cancer. Unlike prostatitis, prostatitis may affect women, especially infectious prostatitis, which can easily induce urinary tract infections and vaginitis in women. Prostate cancer is not contagious and does not pose a direct effect on the patient’s spouse. In a word, the impact of prostate cancer on women’s health is very limited from the perspective of sex life, and there is no need to “talk about cancer”!
The age of prostate cancer is a factor.
The reason for this is not clear, but may be related to genes, which needs further research. But what is certain is the great risk factors that cause prostate cancer. The first is the age factor. Prostate cancer is very rare in men younger than 45 years old, but with increasing age, the incidence of prostate cancer increases dramatically, and the majority of prostate cancer patients are older than 65 years old. Basically, the incidence of prostate cancer almost doubles with every 10-year increase in age after 40 years old. The risk of prostate cancer in men aged 50-59 years is 10%, while the risk of prostate cancer in men aged 80-89 years increases steeply to over 70%. The second factor is family. When a male relative in the immediate family has prostate cancer, the incidence rate of men in the family is significantly higher. Immediate male relatives are usually the father and brothers. If one immediate male relative has prostate cancer, the probability of developing prostate cancer is one time higher than the general population; if there are two, the probability is three times higher. There is also the ethnicity factor. Generally speaking, black people have a higher incidence of prostate cancer than other ethnic groups.
Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is not referred to as prostate cancer in Chinese medicine, but is classified as “retention of urine”, “blood shower” and “labor shower” in Chinese medicine. It is believed that this disease is related to the dysfunction of the kidney, spleen, liver and bladder. Many medical practitioners have explored the understanding and treatment of this disease from different aspects, and believe that the causes of this disease are five: first, old age and weakness or overwork; second, overwork and poor diet; third, emotional and mental disorders, liver depression and qi stagnation; fourth, excessive alcohol consumption, spicy and greasy food; fifth, sexual life, sperm withholding, defeated sperm remains in the body.
In terms of treatment, TCM advocates the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
For those who are old and frail or overworked. The first thing is to improve the physical condition of these people, especially for those who have overworked, they should abstain from sex, strengthen the diet and ensure rest. The old and frail should strengthen nutrition. The kidneys are the foundation of the body, so old and weak people and those who have overworked themselves will have prostate cancer due to kidney injury. The first step is to strengthen the kidney.
For people who are overworked and do not eat well. For these people, they should pay attention to rest and strengthen diet and nutrition. In clinical treatment, they should tonify the kidneys and strengthen the spleen, and harmonize the middle and nourish the deficiency.
For people with emotional disorders and liver depression and qi stagnation. For this group of people, the first thing we should do is to pay attention to the de-stressing of the emotions, to keep them in a happy mood, to reduce the psychological burden, and to choose some more relaxing environmental activities in life. The liver is the organ that collects blood, so people who are emotionally unstable and have liver depression and qi stagnation usually have more blood stasis, so clinical treatment should de-stagnate the liver and activate the blood to remove blood stasis.
For people who drink too much alcohol and like to eat spicy and oily food. For this group of people should live a reasonable diet, meat and vegetables in order. The treatment should be to remove phlegm and dampness, move Qi and eliminate stagnation.
For people who do not ejaculate during sex, or have sperm left in the body. For these people, they should change their sexual habits and have a regular sex life. The accumulation of defeated sperm in the body can easily lead to damp heat in the bladder and fumigation of damp heat, thus inducing prostate cancer. The clinical treatment should be to clear heat and remove dampness and regulate the water channel. The optional tonics are Bazheng San plus or minus and Dioscorea Z Fenqing Drink plus or minus.
In conclusion, the treatment of prostate cancer in Chinese medicine is not “treating cancer for cancer”, but taking into account the original characteristics of human aging, based on the principle of healthy survival, or even “survival with cancer”. Most patients can achieve ideal results with less pain, higher quality of survival and longer survival time.
Special Note.
Prostate cancer is the name of modern medical diagnosis. If a complete diagnosis is needed, eventually a pathological section of the prostate gland tissue must be available before it can be recognized. However, the problem is that if a pathological section of the prostate is done it will necessarily require surgery even a small one, which is an injury to the prostate and the perineum, which is not a small impact on the efficacy of TCM treatment. The actual fact is that if you don’t do this, and you choose Chinese medicine, you’ll end up being cured, but you won’t be recognized for not having this “slice” result. These are the important reasons why there are so few cases of TCM intervention in prostate cancer treatment. In addition, if the patient has taken surgery and radiotherapy and then considers TCM treatment after the condition has worsened, the result will be predictable. The same is true for the treatment of other cancers.
Daily preventive care.
In addition to treatment, prevention and health care have a very important significance in TCM. Many foods in daily life can be risk factors for prostate cancer. Several studies have shown that a high-fat diet can stimulate prostate cancer growth. Beef and high-fat dairy products appear to be prostate cancer stimulants, and high dairy intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer; conversely, fruits and vegetables and a low-fat diet may help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. These healthy foods include soy (tofu and soy milk), tomatoes, pomegranates, green tea, red grapes, strawberries, blueberries, peas, watermelon, rosemary, garlic, and citrus. In addition, reasonable dietary therapy can also help prostate cancer patients to recover. Different dietary remedies can be chosen for different staging of prostate cancer. The details are as follows: (for reference only)
1.Old age and weakness or overworked room type.
Ingredients: 15 grams of Chinese yam, 9 grams of dogwood, 15 grams of chasteberry, 30 grams of tortoise board and 60 grams of lean pork.
Directions: Decoct the first four flavors and remove the residue, add lean pork and cook.
Usage: Use with meals, one dose daily.
2, overworked, diet is not the type.
Main ingredients: yellow croaker swim bladder, 15 grams of ginseng, 30 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, and the right amount of purple river carp.
Method: Deep fry the swim bladder and purple river carp in sesame oil, and grind them into fine powder.
Usage: 6 grams each time, decoction with Atractylodes macrocephala and Radix et Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephala, 3 times a day, taken continuously.
3.Emotional and mental disorders, liver depression and qi stagnation type.
Main ingredients: 30 grams of white peony, angelica 10 grams, poria 10 grams, a duck.
Practice: remove the internal organs of the duck, placed in the first three, into the pot and simmered until the duck is cooked position Usage: with meals, three times a week.
4, excessive alcohol consumption, like to eat spicy and greasy food type.
Main ingredients: hawthorn 10 grams, Fa Xianxia 6 grams, coix seeds 30 grams, japonica rice 50 grams.
Directions: Wrap the hawthorn and half-xia in gauze, add water and boil for 20 minutes, take out, put in round-grained rice and coix seeds, boil into porridge, add a little rock sugar.
Usage: One daily dose, taken at breakfast.
5, sex withholding sperm not ejaculate, defeat sperm residual body type main ingredients: fried psyllium 10 grams, leek seeds 6 grams, walnuts 3, barley 30 grams.
Practice: leek seeds fried yellow with walnuts, barley, fried psyllium seeds with water and cooked into a porridge.
Usage: Drink and serve when warm. Take it once a day for 10 to 15 days.
In conclusion, the treatment of prostate cancer is very practical and effective in Chinese medicine. As long as the evidence is accurate, the medicine is in place, and the poor lifestyle is corrected, it is inevitable that the disease will stabilize or recover, or at least not develop and worsen. In fact, clinically, only some medical interventions for prostate cancer patients will die from prostate cancer, other prostate cancer patients may end up with cardiovascular disease long before they get worse!