Sabal Serrulata

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Genito-urinary organs: Prostate. Ovaries. Mammæ. Bladder. Urethra.
Mucous membranes.

WORSE

Women and old men.
Weather: Cold, Damp. Cloudy.
Sympathy.

Sharp, stinging pains in urethra. Debility. .................... Voices seem distant. Abdominal pains into thighs. Irritable bladder and urethra. Strangury. Enuresis. Limy urinary sediment. Testes drawn up. Enlarged or congested prostate; senile. Painful erection or emission of semen. Ovarian pains. Vulva feels open. Coldness in genitals. Absent sexual passion; with nervous irritability. Mammæ sore, tender and full, or small; < cold bath. Backache from coition.

Related: Sep. Sil.

Sabal Serrulata across the other classic books

Sabal Serrulata appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“PROSTATE AND PERINEUM STINGING (Comp. Burning, Stinging.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Serenoa serrulata. Saw Palmetto. (Sandy soils of sea coast South Carolina to Florida; most luxuriant nearest the sea.) N. O. Palmaceæ. ( 1 ) Tincture of fresh ripe berries and seeds, all crushed-and macerated in 90 per cent. alcohol for fourteen days and decanted (Hale). ( 2 ) Fluid Extract, "probably four times…”

Sabal Serrulata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Sabal Serrulata in 5 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

BACK - PAIN - coition - after
PROSTATE GLAND - ENLARGEMENT - senile
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling (by drops) - enlarged prostate,with
PROSTATE GLAND - INFLAMMATION
PROSTATE GLAND - EMISSION prostatic fluid

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