Saw palmetto, Serenoa repens (Arecaceae), is a traditional medicine of American Indians of the southeast. The berries are used as medicine and as food. The leaves are used to make thatching, baskets, fans, brushes, brooms, rope, fire kindling, fish traps and dolls [1]. European immigrants to the Florida area learned from American Indians to use the berries as medicine. S. repens is the third mo...