Sabal serrulata
Saw Palmetto
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 562
Sabal is homceopathic 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 p. 563
Compare: Phosph. ac.; Stigmata maydis; Santal.; Apis. In prostatic symptoms: Ferr. pic.; Thuja; Picric acid (more sexual erethism). Populus tremul.; (prostatic enlargement with cystitis).
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