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Sabal Serrulata
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Sabal Serrulata Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Sycotic Miasm
The Sycotic miasm is characterized by overgrowth and retention. It manifests as warts, tumors, fibroids, joint pain, excessive discharges, and suspicious or secretive mental states.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
In the provings, the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. or fluid extract were used, from 5 to 10 drop doses, repeated
two or three times
a day.
A similar dosage has been adopted in the clinical use of the remedy.
Sabal is an organ remedy of great power, selecting the uterus and prostatic gland (which is the male analog
of the uterus), ovaries and testes and bladder.
For irritability of the genito -urinary organs, especially the
prostate, ovaries, breasts, bladder and ure thra.
It is soothing to the mucus membranes and is tonic, nutritive
and stimulating to the overworked brain.
Prostate enlargement and weakness.
Prostatitis.
Epididymitis and urinary difficulties.
Iritis with prostatic
trouble.
Homeopathic catheter for retention of urine due to enlarged prostate.
General and sexual debilit y.
Nervous irritability with loss of sexual desire in both sexes.
Sexual neurotics.
Valuable for undeveloped breast glands.
Small and undeveloped genitals.
Sharp, stinging and wandering pains.
Languor, apathy and indifference.
Fear of going to sleep.
Promotes
nutrition and tissue building.
COMMENTS - In his book, Saw Palmetto, Hale put together most of the available knowledge regarding this
plant.
It is a dwarf palm with a creeping (or leaning), branching stem, the edges of leaf and petioles serrate,
roots fibrous, large, half exposed.
The fruit, so-called “berry,” is a one- seeded dupe about the size of an olive, dark purple when ripe, and ripening
in October and November.
The fruit is richer in sugar than sugar cane and contains two oils, one volatile and
one fixed.
The volatile oil is considered to possess the most characteristic properties of the medicine.
Hale described it as “yellow,” but he quoted John Uri Lloyd of Cincinnati, as writing to him, “The principal
constituent is a volatile oil.
This oil possesses a deep green color.” And he goes on to say that the color is not
due to chlorophyll nor to the copper of the form used in condensing it.
This agrees with Es tep’s contention that the preparation of Sabal should be dark green or grass -green.
The
preparation
Estep used was a fluid extract prepared by Burrough Brothers of Baltimore from the “fresh green berries.” Hale
directs that the fresh ripe berries should be used.
Hale’s tincture was of fresh ripe berries and seeds, all crushed and macerated in 90 percent alcohol for fourteen
days and decanted.
He noted that the fluid extract was “probably four times stronger than the tincture.”
C.
S.
Estep used a dark -green fluid extract that was made from the fresh green berries and as “almost as
green as grass and has an oily surface.” He made his dilutions from this.
Other preparations disappointed him.
Oil can be prepared from the expressed juice of the fruit by allowing it to stand a few days.
Saccharated oil is
one part of the oil to seven parts of cane sugar.
Malted Sabal is one part of the oil to seven of Maltine.
Aqua
Olei Sabal, for use as a spray, is a preparation suggested by Hale made by triturating 15 drops of th e oil with
Mag-c.
3j., gradually adding a pint of distilled water and decanting.
The preparation used by Dr.
Mullin’s prover was made by Boericke and Tafel.
All are agreed that preparations
of the dried fruit and of the root-bark do not possess the curative powers of the remedy.
While on a trip through the wilds of Florida, Hale observed the great fattening properties of the berries on
animals.
During summer, food is scanty and the wild animals become very thin, but as soon as the pal metto
fruit ripens they improve rapidly.
In a few weeks have put on so much fat that they become easy prey.
This fat,
said Hale, “consists principally of olein and will not make lard.”
Dr.
Langton said that she gave 5 drop doses four times daily in cases of overworked brain and school-
headache for the “tonic, nutri tive and stimulating” effect of the remedy.
She gives the lx as soon as relief has
been obtained and she finds that the dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. often gives greater relief than the larger doses for the headaches.
Mullins said “I now found the use of the drug in the 3c and 6c potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration. curative in nearly all of the diseases of
the uterus and appendages.
Also in headache from reflexes uterine troubles in breast abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection., mental
irritations and nervous debility.” He thought that it well deserved the name of “The Homeopathic Catheter,” but
he added that it must be given on its individual indications.
W.
E.
Rely published three cases illustrat ing the prostatic action of Sabal.
The first, Mr.
J., 56, was very
despondent, irritable.
Sympathy seemed to anger him.
Great tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain. in neck of bladder with heavy, aching
pains with sense of coldness extend ing into external genitals.
Occasional sharp pains extending up into
abdomen and down into thighs.
Capricious appetite.
Chronic constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
Urin ation too frequent, dis turbing
sleep.
Sabal tincture was given, five drops, night and morning.
Steady improvement followed, and in eight weeks all
the symptoms had gone and with them an annoying eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. of the hands.
The second case was Mr.
M., 45, who had increasing frequency of urination for a year.
Despondent, distressed.
Vertex headache and gastric catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
Little sexual desire.
Sex followed by digging pain in
back and tenesmus of bladder with difficulty in commencing to urinate.
Genitals were cold, dull aching in region of prostate, extending to abdomen and thighs.
Sabal tincture gradually
relieved and cured in three weeks.
The third case concerned Mr.
E., 35.
He had frequent urination for one and a half years.
Heavy, dragging
pains, extending into back and thighs, back pains much after sex.
Considerable loss of prostatic fluid at times.
Sexual desire much impeded.
Severe headache on vertex and gastric catarrh.
All symptoms were removed
by Sabal tincture.
Hale said that E.
S.
Evans of Columbus, Ohio, considered Sabal “almost specific in iritis when the prostate
gland in involved.
I have cured cases with the 3x which could not be relieved in any other way.”
A L.
Davidson related acase of impotence in a man, 51, who had difficult urin ation, tenderness of prostatic
portion of urethra,
loss of power.
His testicles shrunk, penis shrunk and cold.
Sabal tincture, 15 drops, four times a day, was prescribed.
At the end of the first week he complained of
drawing pains in spermatic cords, there was freer flow of urine, he slept better and felt better.
At the end of the
second week the testes gradually increased in size.
The urethral tenderness had nearly disappeared and
erections were established.
In two weeks more the cure was complete, the testes were even larger and firmer
than normal.
J.
Martin Kershaw of St.
Louis, treated a young woman, 23, who had great difficulty in controlling her urine all
her life.
Undue exertion, lifting, straining, or laughing caused it to dribble away.
Unless she rose several times
in the night, she was sure to wet the bed.
Sabal tincture, one drop, four times a day, was given.
In one month
she was much improved and under the same remedy she gradually got quite well.
Elias C.
Price reported three cases.
The first was a case of a very nervous, sensitive woman with chronic
inflammation of the bladder, frequent, painful urination, ten to twelve times in the night and every fifteen to
thirty minutes during the day.
Spells of pressing pain on rectum, better by warm water enemas, which generally
brought away hardened feces.
Lil-t.
3x removed this temporarily.
Rectal examination disclosed a hard, fleshy tumor the size of half a hen’s
egg on the posterior aspect of the uterus.
Sabal fluid extract 5 drops, thrice daily, diminished the tumor by half
in two months and removed it entirely in three more.
Prices’ next case was of Mrs.
X who, five days after confinement after her first child, had irritation of kidneys
and a week later symptoms of pelvic peritonitisInflammation of the abdominal liningInflammation of the peritoneum, the silk-like membrane that lines the inner abdominal wall and covers organs..
Her uterus was mu ch enlarged, very tender.
She did not
urinate very often, but when she did the pain was so excruciating that she fainted away and sometimes did not
come to for an hour.
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For three days no remedy did any good.
Then she had a violent pain on the right ^ide of her head above and
behind the
ear, and paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of her left arm and leg.
She became unconscious and could not be aroused, at times would
talk of things that had occurred before her illness, insensible to external impressions.
She remained so for ten days.
Sabal fluid extract, 20 drops, every two hours, relieved the pain on being raised
to urinate after the second dose.
Recovery from the other condition was very gradual.
The third case was of Miss X., 22, who had irregular menses for years, having once gone nine months without
a period.
When she came to Price she was three months past her time, one breast was much smaller than the
other.
Sabal fluid extract was given, 5 drops, thrice daily.
In about a month the menses came on freely, lasting four
days instead of the usual two.
Breasts began to increase in size.
In three months one was as large as the
other.
The following year she again missed her time and Sabal brought it right in a week.
Using Sabal, Price has cured cases of pelvic cellulitis, peritonitis, puerperal fever inflammation of uterus, tubes,
ovaries and even appendicitis and proctitis, especially if the prostatic gland is involved.
Benign prostatic hypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells..
Characteristic stinging pains.
Wandering, radiating and cramping pains were also prominent.
Sabal has several
groups of associated regions of pain: pains affecting head and ovary, ovar ies and breasts, lower back and
right temple, prostate and eye.
CatarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. symptoms are worse in cold, damp weather.
Cough worse on lying down a t night.
Depression worse before menses
▲RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
🛡️ Antidotes & Antidoted By
Sil. - Sabal grows on the sandy shore. Puls, delayed menses, Puls, also grows
on sandy soils. Sabal. is most fruitful nearest the sea, compare Sil-mar
Difficult thinking, cannot grasp or re- memberwhatisread.
Confused.
Impatience, fretfulness.
Irritability
and depression, particularly before menses.
Irritability from loss of sexual desire.
Dislikes sympathy, makes
them angry.
Self-concentrated on their own sufferings, wants to be left alone.
Apathy.
Wants to go away and
die alone.
Indifference to wants of others.
Fears to fall asleep lest something should happen.
Starts up with
fear as he is dozing.
Confused.
Apathy.
▲SLEEP
Fears to fall asleep lest somethi ng should happen, starts up with this fear when he is dozing.
Wakes
from coldness.
Awakened by stinging pains in ovaries, or by a distressing itching of labia majora
👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with headache from fumes of oil
▲HEAD
Severe headache with giddiness and dim vision.
Headache of weak per sons.
NeuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. in feeble
patients.
Sharp, darting pains here and there, coming and going suddenly.
Pain runs up from nose and centers
in forehead.
Dull, aching pain
in right temple and on vertex.
Pain and irritation at base of brain and upper third of cervical spine (Gels.).
Sensation as if something tightening in brain
▲EYES
Iritis when prostate gland is involved.
Dim vision during headache
▲EARS
Chronic inflammation of middle ear.
Fullness in nose and ears.
Frequent sharp, stitch-like pains inward
from ears.
Hearing diminished, voices seem far off
▲FACE
Papular eruption on left temple and about mouth.
Slight neuralgia in right temple and right jaw.
Pallor
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲MOUTH
Pungent, burning sensation in mouth and fauces, causing sneezing, coughing, and gagging.
As if
mouth coated with fat.
Burning on tongue as if scalded.
Nose - Pain at root of nose.
Pain running up from nose a nd centering in forehead.
Fullness in nostrils,
compelling him to pick them.
Catarrhal symptoms, worse cold, damp weather.
Sneezing and lachryma tion,
coughing and gagging.
Prostate - Prostatitis.
Emission of prostatic fluid during stool, on straining at stool, during urination.
Prostatic
weakness with discharge of prostatic fluid.
Enlarged prostate.
Dull aching in prostate extend ing into
abdomen.
CystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination. from prostate enlargement.
Dribbling of urine from prostate enlargement
▲THROAT
Voice changed, throat feels husky.
Sharp pain in left side of throat.
Pungent, burnin g sensation in
fauces, followed by smooth sensation, as if coated with oil
▲CHEST
Sharp pain in left side of chest, running through left breast.
Constitutions - Sycotic constitutions.
Chronic bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. (Stann., Hep.).
Copious expectoration with catarrh of nose.
Wheezing cough, worse
lying down, until 6 a.m.
Breasts - One breast smaller than other.
Breasts shrink in size (lod., Kali-i.), or increase rap idly.
Breasts,
sore, tender and full feeling, itching.
Stinging in breasts, soreness worse after cold bath.
Sharp pains in
mammary glands.
Pain in breasts, worse coldness, pressure.
Defective lactation
🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Sharp pain running through stomach.
Severe pain in left side of stom ach.
Irritation of stomach.
Belching and acidity.
Acute gastritisInflammation of the stomach liningAn acute or chronic inflammation of the protective lining of the stomach, causing pain, indigestion, or bloating., fearful burning as from sulphuric acid.
Could not take meat, vegetable, or
pudding, only bread and milk.
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📚Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
🩺Medical Verification & Disclaimer:
This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
⚠️ Important: This information is for educational and informational purposes only and should not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a professional homeopathic practitioner before starting any treatment.
