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Saw
Palmetto
The American Botanical Council provided a summay demonstrating that Saw Palmetto is “considered to have diuretic, sedative, antiandrogenic, antiexudative, and other effects.” “A number of double-blind, placebo controlled clinical studies published in recent years involving over 600 patients suggests that Saw Palmetto extracts improve objective and subjective symptoms, including dysuria, nocturia, and frequent and poor urinary flow.” It is “traditionally considered an expectorant, sedative and diuretic.” Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D. in his book, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine, concludes that Saw Palmetto “although specific for certain diseases of the prostate and reproductive organs, is generally effectively used for nutritional support of all bodily systems”. He notes that “doctors have prescribed it to stimulate the appetite, improve digestion and increase assimilation”. “It functions as a nutritive tonic.” FDA has not objected to claims made that Saw Palmetto “maintains prostate health and well being”; supports “healthy prostate function”; “used specifically for men’s health”; “helps maintain proper urinary function”; “the leading herb for men’s health”; “supports the health and function of the urinary tract and the prostate gland”; Saw Palmetto can help the body maintain healthy hormone levels”; and literally dozens of other, comparable claims. |
Botanical: Sarenoa serrulata (HOOK, F.)More Scientific References on Saw Palmetto Berries, (Serenoa Repens, Serenoa Serrulata)
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Musculo-skeletal system, male system.
Daniel Mowrey, Ph D, Tonic Herbs. -
Appetite stimulant, bladder, digestion, genital-urinary system, glands, mammary glands, mucous membranes, nerves, nutritive, prostate, reproductive system, and thyroid.
Daniel Mowrey, Ph D, Herbal Tonic Therapies. -
Diuretic, tonic. It has the power of affecting the respiratory mucous membrane and is used as a tissue builder.
A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. -
The partially dried ripe fruit is a diuretic and tonic.
Foster. S. & Duke. J. A. A field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Eastern and Central N. America. - Bown. D. Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses. Dorling Kindersley, London. -
An extract made from the berries of this shrub is used to sustain the male reproductive system. The herb has also been use as a tonic and digestive aid.
IVI Publishing's On health. -
Native Americans and early Americans settlers used the berries. This plant is called the " plant catheter" due to its effect on the neck of the bladder and the prostate in men. Saw palmetto is a tonic and is one of the few herbal remedies that are considered to be anabolic-it strengthens and build the body tissues. Saw palmetto inhibits androgen and estrogen receptor activity and may be beneficial for both sexes in balancing the hormones.
Herbal Information Center. - Mrs. Grieves A Modern Herbal. - Foster. S. Duke J. A. a Filed Guide to Medicinals Plants. Eastern and Central N. America. - Bown. D. Encyclopedia of Herbs and their Uses. Dorling Kindersley, London. -
Tonic, diuretic.
Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations by R. C. Wren, F. L. S. -
Diuretic.
British Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1983. -
Tonic.
Foster. S & Duke J. A. a Field Guide to medicinal Plants. Eastern and Central N. America. - Houghton Mifflin Co. 1990. - A Modern Herbal Mrs. M. Grieve, Penguin 1984.
