Sabal serrulata
Saw Palmetto
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
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 vesicæ. Chronic gonorrhœa. 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.