Sabal Serrulata
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General
SABAL SERRULATA Saw Palmetto
Sabal is homeopathic to irritability of the genito-urinary organs. General and sexual debility. Promotes nutrition and tissue building. Head, stomach, and ovarian symptoms marked. Of unquestioned value in prostatic enlargement, epididymitis, and urinary difficulties. Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of urethra. Iritis, with prostatic trouble. Valuable for undeveloped mammary glands. Fear of going to sleep. Languor, apathy and indifference.
Head
Confused, full; dislikes sympathy; makes her angry.
Vertigo, with headache.
Neuralgia in feeble patients.
Pain runs up from nose and centers in forehead.
Stomach
Belching and acidity.
Desire for milk (Rhus;
Apis)
Urinary
Constant desire to pass water at night.
Enuresis; paresis of sphincter vesicae.
Chronic gonorrhoea.
Difficult urination.
Cystitis with prostatic hypertrophy.
Male
Prostatic troubles; enlargement; discharge of prostatic fluid.
Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power.
Coitus painful at the time of emission.
Sexual neurotics.
Organs feel cold.
Female
Ovaries tender and enlarged; breasts shrivel (Iod;
Kali iod).
Young female neurotics; suppressed or perverted sexual inclination.
Respiratory
Copious expectoration, with catarrh of nose.
Chronic bronchitis (Stann;
Hep).
Relationship
Compare: Phosph ac; Stigmata maydis; Santal; Apis. In prostatic symptoms: fer pic; Thuja; Picric acid (more sexual erethism). Populus tremul; (prostatic enlargement with cystitis).
Dose
Mother tincture, ten to thirty drops. Third potency often better. The tincture must be prepared from the fresh berries to be effective.