Patent ID: 8410170

Claim:
A method for the treatment of prostatitis in a subject, comprising: administrating, to the subject, a composition comprising an effective amount of at least one selected from the group consisting of an isothiocyanate compound, a derivative of an isothiocyanate compound, and a metabolite of an isothiocyanate compound, wherein the isothiocyanate compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of: benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) isothiocyanate (PEITC), allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) and 4-sulfophenylisothiocyanate which have the following formulas (1), (2), (3), and (4), respectively; and wherein each of said derivative and metabolite is at least one selected from the group consisting of a glutathione-conjugate, a cysteinyl glycine-conjugate, a cysteinyl-conjugate, and an N-acetylcysteine-conjugate.