HOW TO CURE AN ENLARGED PROSTATE


Orthodox medicine has practically no treatment for this very frequent condition. Patients with an enlarged prostate are recommended to see a surgeon, and frequently the bladder is opened surgically and the enlarged prostate is taken out. However, he is still alive and goes about as usual.


THE male bladder, but not the female, contains a small muscular gland, which is about the size and shape of a chestnut, and which is situated about the outlet of the bladder. It has been likened to the womb in females. After the change of life, the female womb is apt to degenerate and similar degeneration often takes place in the prostate of the elderly male, which may swell to a considerable size and may grow from a body as large as a chestnut to the size of a fist or larger.

There are three lobes to this body. The central lobe is near the tube and, if it swells considerably, it interferes with the stream or urine. A very large percentage of middle-aged and old men are afflicted with an enlarged prostate, which causes considerable inconvenience.

The holding capacity of the bladder is much diminished, the urine is dammed back, it becomes strong, thick and eventually putrid, causes great irritation of the bladder, and inflammation, and the inflammation is apt to spread up the ureters to the kidneys and produce degeneration is these organs as well. The sufferer from prostatic enlargement can hold his urine only a short time, he must frequently get up during the night, the stream is weak, and often there is great difficulty in starting, discomfort, anxiety, pain, etc.

Orthodox medicine has practically no treatment for this very frequent condition. Patients with an enlarged prostate are recommended to see a surgeon, and frequently the bladder is opened surgically and the enlarged prostate is taken out. This is a grave operation, which gives a great shock to the system. It is a very speculative undertaking and requires great skill.

I have known healthy, strong men of fifty or sixty die under the operation. On the other hand, I know of men who were operated upon when about eighty who were very satisfied with the result. Of course, every avoided operation should be avoided. It speaks volumes for the low state of modern medicine that the orthodox doctor, but not the homoeopath, sends his patients at the first opportunity to the surgeon. One of my friends is a very eminent surgeon. He specializes in operations on the prostate. He has an excised thousands.

When I told him that this condition could easily be cured by homoeopathy and that I considered it his duty to send to homoeopathic doctors, or even to homoeopathic laymen, all cases of enlarged prostate in which operation was inadvisable owing to the condition or age of the patient, or was refused, he looked at me with incredulity and said:”There is no treatment for enlarged prostate except operation.” He had not the slightest desire to investigate or to make enquiries. He is a skilled surgical automation with a tightly closed ming.

A year ago I was staying at a village in Sussex. There was a smith, a Mr. T., whom I knew slightly, and I was struck by his looking very, very ill, deeply jaundiced and anxious. I asked him: ” What is the matter with you?” He replied: “I have a terrible difficulty with urination, I have to get up every hour during the night and each time I void only quite a little, perhaps a tablespoonful.” He told me his bladder was full to bursting point and therefore he took the minimum of liquid.

His urine was extremely thick and dark, acrid and irritating. I felt his abdomen and noticed that his bladder was the size of a football. It was Sunday, the chemists shop of the village was closed, and I had no homoeopathic medicines with me. So I went to the garden, collected a large basket of parsley, told his wife to chop it up, fill a teapot almost to the brim, pour boiling water on it, let it draw for ten minutes or so, and told her husband that he was to drink the decoction all day long in maximum quantity.

Henceforth he was not to touch flesh, fish, fowl or anything made of them, no spices and condiments, no alcohol, no strong tea, nothing to irritate the suffering kidneys and bladder, and he was to abstain from tobacco. I then set out for an all-day walk.

Ten hours after I called on Mr. T., who told me proudly that he had voided a large vessel full of urine, that his urine had become clear and he felt much happier. Parsley is an old folk remedy for bladder irritation, gonorrhoea, etc., as I happened to know. Returned to London I sent to the smith Sulphur in a low potency which he needed on constitutional grounds, Pulsatilla Ix for pain in the urethra and bladder catarrh, and later on Sabal Serrulata, mother tincture.

In the olden days sufferers from this trouble were given Silica by homoeopaths. Sabal Serrulata is saw palmetto, which grows on sandy soil, in soil rich in Silica, and the juice of the plant contains Silica per-digested by the plant. I have found it of great value for enlarged prostate. Boericke states in his excellent Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica: “Constant desire to pass water at night, difficult urination, cystitis with prostatic enlargement.” The smith had been terribly depressed at the time I saw him first.

He felt that he had come to the end of his tether, he did not want to go to the hospital to be operated upon and it was a miracle that his kidneys had not been seriously infected. Urination and urine rapidly normal with the medicines and diet mentioned.

On June Ist, 1931, a Mr. H. C. J. wrote to me from Cardiff: ” For some years I have been troubled with my water. It is too frequent in the day, and, after lying down at night, I have difficult in starting. I have had treatment from my doctor, who told me that my prostate was as large as an orange and he wanted me to see a specialist. I am sixty-one years old.”.

As he did not wish to be operated upon, I put him on the non- irritating diet, previously mentioned, told him to take an abundance of fruit, fruit juice, barley water, and I gave him on general constitutional grounds Sulphur for clearing up the case and Conium 3x to act on the prostate.

We read under the heading “Conium” in Boericke: “Much difficulty in voiding urine, it flows and stops again, interrupted discharge, dribbling in old men.” Besides Conium is indicated if there has been an injury. I was under the impression that there had been an injury in his case. I alternated Sulphur and Conium, then gave him some Pulsatilla and Arnica and Chamomilla when bladder urging became particularly pressing. The he received Sulphur in the 30th potency. The man improved prodigiously.

He was tall and thin when he wrote to me first. After a few weeks he wrote: “I weighed myself this morning and am 7 lbs. heavier than I have ever been. I am feeling well. I keep to your instructions. On June 30th, 1932 he wrote me a very amusing letter as follows:.

“Last night I had to go to the doctor to have my ear syringed, as the wax had got hard and had made me deaf. When that was over, we had a chat about my old complaint. The doctor passed his finger up my back passage, and told me that the prostatic gland was much larger, and was nearly closing up the bowel and that I had got much thinner during the months when he had not seen me.

I told him, as regards my being thinner, I am heavier by a number of pounds. He felt and pommelled me about and admitted that I was in good condition. He asked who had advised me about the prostate and when I mentioned your name he said contemptuously, that man is a quack. I asked him how he accounted for you curing people where doctors had failed. He did not answer, but pressed me to have the operation.

Now as regards my own opinion, he told my wife thirteen months ago that I would not be alive in three months time. Now if he was anyway near right, I could not have improved as I have. Several people whom I told what the doctor had said laughed and told me they had never seen me looking so well as I do now.”.

Major J. R. brought me on December 21st, 1932, his father, a retired Army surgeon with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, who was seventy-eight years old. He had had a very serious attack of influenza, something like a seizure, he complained about palpitations, bronchitis, deep depression, and particularly about an enlarged prostate, which made his nights a misery.

He explained to me: “Of course as a surgeon I know that nothing can be done for that trouble except operation, and I am too old for it.” Aluminium was used in the kitchen and many of his troubles had followed a severe attack of influenza. He was given a dose of Influenzinum 30 every Sunday and a dose of Aluminium 200 very Wednesday. In addition he was to take night and morning a dose of Sulphur 6x and a little Nux vomica before meals.

The combination of Sulphur and Nux vomica improved his general condition. On December 30th the Sulphur and Nux vomica were exhausted and he was given Sabal Serrulata, mother tincture, ten drops three times a day which was alternated with Bryonia, because of his bronchitis, another sequel of the old influenza attack.

On January 5th Bryonia was exchanged for Pulsatilla because of pain in the prostatic region. Later on he was given Ignatia in various potencies because of his depression and a few doses of Thuja 30 to antidote his numerous vaccinations.

J. Ellis Barker
James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 was a Jewish German lay homeopath, born in Cologne in Germany. He settled in Britain to become the editor of The Homeopathic World in 1931 (which he later renamed as Heal Thyself) for sixteen years, and he wrote a great deal about homeopathy during this time.

James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.