General reviews
The role of phytotherapy in prostatites and in benign prostatic hyperplasia
Prostatites and benign prostatic hyperplasias are pathologies of increased frequency that have become of interest for numerous researches and debates. Inflammation plays a crucial role in the activation and progression of these pathologies. Prostatites and benign prostatic hyperplasias are treated both by drugs administration and surgically. 

Identification of possible risk factors or physiopathogenical mechanisms could allow for the establishment of prevention and control measures in patients with prostatic pathology. In this paper we discuss recent data obtained in the treatment with phytotherapeuticals of patients with prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia, while insisting upon the antiandrogenic and anti-inflammatory effect of this therapy at prostatic level.