Pygeum Bark and Improved Urinary Flow Measure

• Nutraceutical treatment and prevention of benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.

  • 2019-10-02
  • Review
  • Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica 91(3)
  • • Arrigo F G Cicero
    • Olta Allkanjari
    • Gian Maria Busetto
    • Tommaso Cai
    • Gaetano Larganà
    • Vittorio Magri
    • Gianpaolo Perletti
    • Francesco Saverio Robustelli Della Cuna
    • Giorgio Ivan Russo
    • Kostantinos Stamatiou
    • Alberto Trinchieri
    • Annabella Vitalone

  • PubMed: 31577095
  • DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2019.3.139

  11 Insights on

  • Improved Urinary Flow Measure

  • Low evidence

  Urtica dioica, Pygeum africanum and Curcubita pepo can be considered as an adjunct to the common therapies and their use is supported by studies showing improvement of symptoms and flowmetric indices.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes