Saw Palmetto: (Sabal Serrulata. Serenoa Serrulata.) Its History, Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Provings, Clinical Experience and Therapeutic Applications |
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Page 56 - Surgery) is a nutrient tonic, far in advance of the comp. hypophosphites, almost equal to the tincture of oats, but has a special action upon the glands of the reproductive organs, as the mammae, ovaries, prostate, testes, etc. Its action is that of a great vitalizer, tending to increase their activity, to promote their secreting faculty, and add greatly to their size.
Page 36 - Headache in center of forehead running up from nose. Pain in left ovary and over womb at irregular intervals all morning. 6 pm and n pm ten drops. Sore heavy feeling in front, low down, from noon until going to bed. Mammary glands feel very tender. All morning pains in left ovary frequently running down thigh. Tenderness in mammary glands gradually wore off by fourth day. For three or four days after leaving off medicine felt more or less pains, same kind, though not so severe, in left and right...
Page 81 - ... the first of this month — over six months respite — the longest in over four years. I was so well that I became negligent in the use of the remedies, and so suffered myself to become constipated and lithemic, causing cystic irritation and spasm at the neck of the bladder, requiring the catheter a few times. A few doses of cascara sagrada for the bowels, carbonate of lithia and pichi for acid urine and irritation of the bladder, and resumption of the saw palmetto for the prostate gland, soon...
Page 8 - Most animals in the palmetto region are very fond of the fruit. During the summer months in these parts the supply of food is scanty for such animals as bears, raccoons, opossums and hogs, and they have to work hard to eke out a living from roots and such animal...
Page 58 - ... the size of the prostate was equalized, the difficulty of micturition was relieved, the stoppage, dribbling, lack of force, completely overcome, and the improvement in sexual power steady and most gratifying. A perfect rejuvenation follows the use of the palmetto ; the general nervous system becomes balanced and reinvigorated.
Page 6 - The saw palmetto is of great use to the inhabitants. With the leaves they form a substantial thatch for their houses, and hunters can readily make from it convenient huts that last for years. The leaves are also collected, dried, put up in bales and sold for paper stock. The ^ough, fibrous roots, resembling in texture the husk of the cocoanut, iie easily formed into scrubbing brushes.
Page 80 - Saw Palmetto in Prostatic Disease. — I have been afflicted with that most distressing of old men's troubles, enlarged prostate, for four or five years, and for three years previous was obliged to use a catheter from two to six times in twenty-four hours. A year ago last July I had a short respite of a month or so, and thought I had succeeded in overcoming the difficulty, but it was only partial and temporary, and I had to resort to the catheter again. I had been using rectal suppositories of ergotin,,...
Page 6 - The tough, fibrous roots, resembling in texture the husks of the cocoanut, are easily formed into scrubbing brushes. These roots contain a large amount of potash salts, and may be, in time, a source of that valuable alkali. The saw palmetto berries, or more properly drupes, ripen in October and November, and may be found until the middle of December. They are about the size of the olive, dark purple in color, and contain a large quantity of juice, and a pit shaped like that of the olive. The berries...
Page 59 - Towards the lower and outer aspects, the fibres are less firmly applied together, especially where the vessels enter ; and they appear to be super-added to those which join the coat of the bladder. ' ' As only so small a portion of the prostate is glandular, the propriety of calling that body a gland is rendered doubtful ; for the small secreting glands contained in it are but appendages of the mucous membrane, which project amongst the muscular fibres in the same way as the other glands of the urethra...
Page 8 - ... eggs and dead fish, and they consequently become very thin. As soon, however, as the palmetto berries begin to ripen, they improve rapidly, and in a few weeks have acquired an enormous quantity of fat, so as to become so unwieldy that they are an easy prey to the hunter. This fat, like that of mast-eating animals, consists principally of olein, and will not make lard. The berries, when dropped into water, are seized and eaten with avidity by the fishes. Even the natives frequently acquire a taste...