Materia Medica de A a Z

SABAL SERRULATUM (sabal)

Sabal is homeopathic 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-t; Apis)

Urinary

Constant desire to pass water at night. ENURESIS; paresis of sphincter vesicae. Chronic gonorrhoea. 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 (Kali-i)]. Young female neurotics; suppressed or perverted sexual inclination.

Respiratory

Copious expectoration, with catarrh of nose. Chronic bronchitis (Stann; Hep).

Relationship

Compare: Ph-ac; Stigmata maydis (Stigm); Santal (Santa); Apis. In prostatic symptoms: Ferr-pic; Thuj; Picric acid (Pic-ac) (more sexual erethism). Populus tremul (Pop); (prostatic enlargement with cystitis).

Dose

Mother tincture, ten to thirty drops. Third potency often better. The tincture must be prepared from the FRESH BERRIES to be effective.