Materia Medica

Sabal Serrulata

Saw Palmetto

General and sexual debility. Promotes nutrition and tissue huilding. Head, stomach, and ovarian symptoms marked. Of unquestioned value in prostatic enlaigc- ment, epididymitis, and urinary difficulties. Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of urethra. . Iritis, with prostatic trouble. I'aluable for undevelopcd mammary glands. Fear of going to sleep. Languor, apathy and Mhdifference. 649

Head

Confused, full; dislikes sympathy. 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 gonor- rhoea. Difficult urination.

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.

Female

Ovaries tender aiuid enlarged; breasts shrivcl. [lod.; Kali iod.] Young female neurotios ; suppressed or perverted sexual inclination.

Respiratory

Copious expectoration, with catarrh of nose. Chronic bronchitis. [Stann.; Hep.]

Relationships

Compare : Phosph. ac.; Stigmata maydis; Santal.; Apis. In prostatic symptoms: Ferr pic.; Thuja; Picric acid (more sexual erethism). I'opulus trcmul.; (prostatic enlargement with cystitis).

Dose

Mother tincture, ten to thirty drops.