Sabal serrulata Anhängsel
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anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡
[Werner A. Fabian, M.D.]
Palms IMportant in the tropics for nutrition
(dates/coconuts/tapioca)/for building materials.
Sabal: Indians: urogenital conditions/
Naturopathshomeopaths/anthroposophic physicians:
lung and skin conditions.
It stimulates urine flow and excretion of uric
acid. Bladder neck/prostate/testes.
Recipee: 5 drops Ø of the berries, several times
daily, has been useful in prostate hypertrophy/prostatorrhea/diminished sexual
strength/inflamed testes/ovaries/tilted
uterus/urethritis/mastitis/dysmennorrhea/bladder catarrh/bed wetting/soreness
and feeling of heaviness in the uterus/dysuria/delayed menses and pain in the
breasts. Bronchitis, stubborn coughs and eczema.
Although there seems to be such a wide range of indications, saw palmetto has
become popular in treating benign prostate hypertrophy (= BHP).
Modern theory: BHP is caused by dihydrotestorsterone (DHT), a
testosterone metabolite. Proscar ® aims at inhibiting the enzyme 5 alpha
reductase which converts testosterone into DHT, but less than 50% of the
patients experience an increase in urinary flow rate. The lipo sterolic
extract of saw palmetto berries is said to contain substances which inhibit the
formation of DHT by inhibiting the aforementioned enzyme. Studies in Europe
confirmed the value of saw palmetto berry extract, and the results were less
residual urine after voiding, fewer nocturnal visits to the bathroom and
stronger stream. The dose in these studies is 160 mg. twice a day. The extract
also decreases edema and stimulates the immune system.
BHP and bladder weakness are an expression that the ether force of the bladder
and the sucking process between bladder and kidneys are gradually diminishing
with age.
The earth forces are gaining the upper hand while the etheric forces in
the lower organism are dwindling. Swelling, hardening and inflammation are the
result. In women,
this corresponds to the feeling of heaviness in the uterus.
How are we to understand the effectiveness of saw palmetto? Let us look at the
plant and try to understand its beingness. To find "active
ingredients" is interesting, but for
a deeper understanding we must strive to gain an all-encompassing
picture of the plant. When this picture is living in us, then we know why this
plant works in the human being in a healing way.
The palm trees are a subgroup of the monocotyledons. In contrast to the
dicotyledons, they have only one germination leaf. The monocotyledons connect
only superficially with the earth. They don't have deep tap roots; they strive
away from the earth towards the sun, taking in the light-ether. In the palm
trees, the stem is the main organ.
R.S.: = „aufgestülpte Erde“ or "uplifted earth" - growing in
the tropics where the earth forces are welling mightily upwards and the sun
forces are sucked in by the plants.
Palm trees are "sun" trees, connecting with the forces of the
periphery. This intense interaction between cosmic and earth forces comes to a
culmination in the tropics.
The vegetative gesture of palm leaf development is the gesture of life
itself, which is know in eurythmy as "L". We could also call them
carbon plants because of their
stiffness and firmness. Indeed, they provide building materials for
houses and hundreds of tools.
The astral impulse does not go deep into these plants so we don't find any
poisonous substances in the palm trees. This is not a family of healing plants
at all - with one exception: sabal serrulata. It deviates from this
characteristic. It grows more northerly as a dwarf form out of its creeping
roots. The plant appears compressed. Also, the burning effect on the mucous
membrane in the mouth is unusual, and so are the saw-toothed petioles. This sun
plant is pulled into the earth sphere (compressed) and can intermediate with
the light-ether; hence its effect on the lungs and its generally upbuilding
effect on the whole organism as a result of this stimulated lung function.
(The lungs are the carrier of the life-ether.) The metabolic processes
are stimulated and strengthened at the right place, namely in the
metabolic-limb system. Digestion is strengthened, any cough becomes looser, and
mucous is excreted.
According to Rudolf Steiner, the male sexual organs represent a kind of
accessory digestion, just as the uterus represents a kind of heart in the lower
pole. Berries work
on the metabolic-limb system. Then, we can begin to understand that
sabal serrulata berry extract works in a healing way in the hypertrophied
prostate gland and the
inflamed bladder, as well as the heavy feeling of the uterus. It
strengthens the etheric body in this area.
Is it surprising, then, that some animals eat the berries of sabal serrulata
prior to their mating time? ‡
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