saw palmetto berry and Improved Voiding Symptom

• Pharmacological effects of saw palmetto extract in the lower urinary tract.

  • 2009-03
  • Review
  • Acta pharmacologica Sinica 30(3)
  • • Mayumi Suzuki
    • Yoshihiko Ito
    • Tomomi Fujino
    • Masayuki Abe
    • Keizo Umegaki
    • Satomi Onoue
    • Hiroshi Noguchi
    • Shizuo Yamada

  • PubMed: 19262550
  • DOI: 10.1038/aps.2009.1

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Voiding Symptom

  • Low evidence

  Saw palmetto extract (SPE), an extract from the ripe berries of the American dwarf palm, has been widely used as a therapeutic remedy for urinary dysfunction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Europe.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No