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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Materia Medica on Saw Palmetto (sabal Serrulata)

SAW PALMETTO (Sabal Serrulata)SERE2
   The fruit of SERENOA SERRULATA, (R. & S.) Hook. f. Tonic expectorant, having an alterative and antiseptic action on mucous membranes particularly of the genito-urinary system. The remedy also improves nutrition and is believed to impart vigor to the sexual apparatus, female as well as male. Employed in bronchial and laryngeal affections, in asthma, in vesical catarrh and in atrophy of the sexual organs.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.