The treatment of an enlarged prostrate gland even in the conventional medicine of France, is carried out mostly using the fat soluble extract of the pygeum bark - this herbal remedy is usually the initial treatment offered to all patients affected by an enlarged prostrate gland in this country. Prostrate gland inflammation of the severe and chronic type can be reduced in intensity using an herbal pygeum bark decoction; this bark decoction may also be useful in reversing male sterility if the condition arises due to inadequate secretions from the prostate gland. Even prostatic cancer may possibly be treatable using the pygeum combined with other beneficial herbs.