# Enlarged prostate home and OTC treatments:  Do any of them work?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enlarged-prostate-home-and-otc-treatments-do-any-of-them-work/724374 "2015-07-06T02:29:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enlarged-prostate-home-and-otc-treatments-do-any-of-them-work/724374/21 "2015-07-14T01:50:19Z")

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> [@WhyNot](#):
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> I don’t have a subscription to uptodate (because I’m poor). What, if anything, do they have to say about African wild potato (Hypoxis hemerocallidea), Pygeum or African plum extract (Pygeum africanum), and rye grass pollen extract (Secale cereale)? I’ve seen some promising studies on all three, but don’t know if enough have been done yet to have 1A level evidence either way.

They don’t mention them. So I suspect studies are not yet that convincing one way or another.

I do prefer to have solid evidence of benefits outweighing risks for treatments before recommending them. There are always ‘promising studies’ and 999 times out of 1000 it seems they don’t lead to new treatments.

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