General Description
Prostate problems usually begin to appear in men when they reach late thirties. Today, any man regardless of age can have prostate problems. It is no longer an old man's sickness. Prostate diseases can be divided into three categories; prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer can cause death. However, some men seem to outlive the disease and some who have it die from other causes. One surprising fact is that you may not even know that you have a prostate cancer. The symptoms are almost absent in the early phase of the cancer. Without any pain or symptoms, you may not realize that you have prostate cancer. For prevention, doctors recommend men in their forties to attend prostate tests.

Nearly all the signs of prostate cancer are similar to BPH which include frequent, nighttime, hesitant, and periodic excretion of urine. These symptoms cannot validate that you have a prostate cancer. The cancer usually starts in the prostatic gland. However, once it spread beyond the prostate, it will destroy other cells in your body.

Acupuncture and Prostatitis
(1) Downward migration of damp-heat
Burning sensation in the urinary tract, yellow and scanty urine, profuse whitish secreta from the external orifice of urethra, bitter taste and dryness of mouth, thirst and desire to drink water, retention of dry feces, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue fur, slippery and Taichong (LR 3) are added; for asthenia of liver and kid-ney yin, Guanyuan (CV 4), Fuliu (KI 7), Taixi (KI 3), Shenshu (BL 23) and Ganshu (BL 18) are added; for as-thenia of spleen and kidney yang, Mingmen (GV 4 ), Pishu (BL 20), Shenshu (BL 23) and Zusanli (ST 36) are added; for qi stagnation and blood stasis, Taichong (LR 3) and Geshu (BL 17) are added; for hematuria, Xuehai (SP 10), Geshu (BL 17) and Zhibian (BL 54) are added; for seminal emission and spermatorrhea, Jinggong (Ext.), Guanyuan (CV 4) and Dahe (KI 12) are added.

2. Ear acupuncture
Prescription: Angle of Cymba Concha (C08), Kidney (C010), Bladder (C09), Liver (C012), Triple Energizer (C017), Ear Shenmen ( TF4 ), Pelvic Cavity ( TF5 ), Sympathetic Nerve (AH6a), Endocrine (CO18) and Adre-nal Gland (TG2p).

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