Optimize Your Health with the Healing Powers of Saw Palmetto! Saw palmetto, best known today for easing prostate discomfort, has been used for generations to treat a vast array of ailments in men and women. This powerful herb boosts the immune and endocrine systems and combats male and female infertility, ovarian pain and cysts, urinary tract and lung problems, weak libido, anorexia, cystic acne -- even male baldness. Nationally known clinical herbalist David Winston, AHG, an herbal practitioner and educator for 30 years, separates fact from fiction for health-conscious consumers and clinicians. He documents saw palmetto's value for a range of maladies, sharing his latest clinical results as well as those of other well-known herbalists and naturopaths, and offers his special formulas for making saw palmetto remedies at home.