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Bioforce Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto
was known as a beneficial herb to the indigenous population of
Central and South America. In the southern states of the USA, the
fruit was used as a source of nutrition. It was also used as a tonic
after illness, an effect observed among wild animals in Florida,
which lost weight as a result of the lack of available foodstuffs
during the hot summer months and then thrived after eating the ripe
Saw Palmetto fruit during the autumn
The old botanical name of sabal was the more commonly used South
American name for the plant. The Latin word, serrulata means "little
saw" and refers to the sharp-edged leaves.
The dwarf palm grows from a creeping rhizome. Its leafstalks are
between 1 and 1.5 metres in length and have a jagged edge from which
the sharply-edged leaves fan out in segments of 18 and 24 leaves.
The individual deep purple to black berries are about the size of
olives, which taste sweet at first but leave a bitter after taste.
New research into the efficacy and
tolerability of Saw Palmetto oily capsules has achieved excellent
results. Conducted by Swiss GPs, the study involved 367 patients
who took one Saw Palmetto capsule daily for eight weeks.
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Symptoms reduced by up to 42% in
eight weeks
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Well tolerated with no side effects
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Fast results with just one capsule
a day
The key findings were:
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Saw Palmetto had a very good
efficacy. Symptoms improved by 42% for patients with mild
symptoms and 38% for patients with medium symptoms.
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All patients reported an improvement
in quality of life.
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86% of all monitored patients
indicated that they would continue taking Saw Palmetto due to
its good tolerability and high efficacy.
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Improvement could be seen in just
four weeks in 83% of patients.
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Saw Palmetto worked even
for patients with severe symptoms, which in this group were
reduced by 30%.
Alfred Vogel
discovered the Saw Palm during his exploration of the Americas in
the 1950s and learned that the Native Americans in Florida, the
Seminole, had used the fruit of saw palmetto for hundreds of years
for many conditions such as the onset of prostate enlargement and
bladder infections.
This dwarf palm (Saw Palmetto or Sabal serrulata) grows exclusively
to the north of the Everglades in Florida, normally in dense pine
forests, tropical heat and sandy soil being its favourite territory.
Experience has shown that the most effective means of obtaining a
good, healthy crop is carefully to select a natural cultivation and
devote time and energy to ensuring that the wild palms have room to
grow and are not overgrown by forest or other plants. To this end,
roughly one square kilometre of fields are fenced off and laid out
to ensure that organic cultivation takes place far away from
industrial areas and citrus plantations, which could be a source of
contamination.
When the fruit of the Saw Palm is ripe, the harvest workers hand
pick the berries in searing temperatures ranging from 35 to 42
degrees centigrade. There are normally 50 to 100 berries on each
plant. The fully developed berries are almost as big as olives but
are not really edible. Following harvest, moisture is carefully
removed to ensure that they are not subject to deterioration during
their journey to Switzerland and they are then packed into sacks to
begin their journey, the end result of which is the natural remedy,
A. Vogel Saw Palmetto oily capsules.
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