Shoskes Daniel A
Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, 2950 Cleveland Clinic Boulevard, Weston, FL 33331, USA.
Curr Urol Rep. 2002 Aug;3(4):330-4. doi: 10.1007/s11934-002-0059-7.
Chronic prostatitis is a very common and poorly understood condition with significant impact on quality of life. Given the lack of proven efficacy of conventional therapies such as antibiotics, it is not surprising that patients have turned with increasing frequency to phytotherapy and other alternative treatments. Although alternative therapies are plentiful, few have been subjected to scientific scrutiny and prospective controlled clinical trials. This review discusses therapies commonly used by patients with prostatitis and focuses in detail on those with published data. These treatments include zinc, cernitin pollen extract (bee pollen), quercetin, saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), and acupuncture. Complementary therapies may indeed have much to offer patients, particularly those with chronic degenerative conditions in which allopathic therapies have proven less successful. Alternative therapies, however, require the same scientific criteria for validation and acceptance as do conventional medical therapies.
慢性前列腺炎是一种非常常见但了解甚少的疾病，对生活质量有重大影响。鉴于抗生素等传统疗法缺乏已证实的疗效，患者越来越频繁地转向植物疗法和其他替代疗法也就不足为奇了。尽管替代疗法种类繁多，但很少有经过科学审查和前瞻性对照临床试验的。本综述讨论了前列腺炎患者常用的疗法，并详细关注了那些有已发表数据的疗法。这些治疗方法包括锌、塞尼通花粉提取物（蜂花粉）、槲皮素、锯棕榈（Serenoa repens）和针灸。辅助疗法确实可能为患者提供很多帮助，尤其是那些患有慢性退行性疾病的患者，在这些疾病中，传统疗法已被证明效果较差。然而，替代疗法需要与传统医学疗法一样的科学标准来进行验证和接受。
