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Medicinal Uses |
Side Effects |
Plant |
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| Common Names |
| Sage |
| Botanical Name |
| Salvia officinalis |
| Family |
| LAMIACEAE or LABIATAE The Mint Family |
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Related Species |
- Salvia sclarea, Clary Sage
- Salvia divinorum, also known as Diviner's Sage, Sage of the Seers, or simply by the genus name, Salvia, is a powerful psychoactive herb
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Antisudorific*
Depurative*
Antiseptic*
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| Parts Used: Leaves, small stems and flowers |
| Constituents:Volatile oils (including thujone, cineole, borneol, linalool, camphors, salvene, pinine), oestrogenic substances, salvin and carnosic acid, flavonoids, phenolic acids,tannins |
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Sage is an excellent and safe natural disinfectant. Most of it's antimicrobial properties are attributed to the volatile oil thujone.
Sage tea was and still is primarily used as a gargle for sore throat and an aid to digestion. This classic culinary herb has a long tradition of healing and treating digestive ills.
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Prep Methods :Fresh or dried herb, essential oil, oil infusions, teas, tinctures, extracts. Used both as a culinary herb and medicinal herb.
 Remedies using Sage
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The Chinese have long valued sage for its healing properties.
Red sage or dan-shen Salvia miltiorrhiza is one of many Chinese species in the genus, and is a very commonly used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine to relieve pain after childbirth and regulate menstruation. Combined with dan-gui, it is used to regulate suppressed menstrual flow. |
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 Three types of sage oil are commonly sold: Dalmatian (Salvia officinalis), Spanish (Salvia lavandulaefolia) and clary (Salvia sclarea). Each has a unique fragrance and the oils are not interchangeable in aromatherapy. Dalmatian sage oil has the characteristic aroma of the herb that is recognizable as 'sage' to most of us. Sage oil is occasionally used in perfumery in herb-type, spicy, and masculine scents. |
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Aromatherapy Air Fresheners *
Botanical Hair Care *
Brain/Memory/Focus *
Cellulite Reduction *
Culinary *
Digestion/Indigestion *
Facial and Skin care *
Insect Repellent *
Menopause/Perimenopause *
Menorrhagia *
Personal Care *
Pet care *
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| Supressed menustrual flow | | Combined with dan-gui (dong quai), it is used to regulate supressed menustrual flow in TCM. 722
( Foster, Steven, Chongxi, Yue ) | | Grey hair dye | | Turkish women said sage was a wonderful hair dye, and I can personally recommend it for this use. 572
Annie. . (), | | Body Odor | | Compounds found in Sage can dry up perspiration, while the oils contained in sage are antiseptic and antibiotic. Using sage on the skin can help lessen a body odor problem caused by perspiration or by infection. 615
(White,Linda B., M.D. ) | | Heavy menstrual bleeding | | Modern research shows sage helps to prevent blood clots from forming, making it useful in heavy menstrual bleeding 1142
| | Hot flashes | | Regular garden sage is a yang, grounding herb and many women find sage tea relieves hot flashes. 908
(Gladstar, Rosemary ) | | Ringworm infections, gingivitis | | For ringworm infections, thoroughly soak your companion with a strong, cooled sage tea twice daily. A strong sage tea or tincture can also be used to treat and prevent gingivitis and dental infections. 1019
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| The undiluted essential oil can cause skin irritations and should never be taken internally. |
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
 Sage is a shrubby perennial herb of the mint family native to the Mediterranean. There are over 500 varieties of sage, and most are medicinally useful. They grow throughout the tropical and temperate zones and many of them have medicinal and culinary value. Of the hundreds of species of sage, only a handful are used in cooking. Culinary varieties include golden garden sage, dwarf garden sage, and the sweet pinapple sage.
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 Salvia, is from the Latin salvare, to save. Sage was a sacred ceremonial herb of the Romans and was associated with immortality, and was also said to increase mental capacity. The Greek Theophrastus classified sage as a "coronary herbe", because it flushed disease from the body, easing any undue strain on the heart. In the middle ages, people drank sage tea to treat colds, fevers, liver trouble, epilepsy, memory loss and many other common ailments. Sage was held to be a major medical herb by the French, because of it's anti-bacterial properties.
Sage has also been used as a beauty aid. Early Greeks drank, applied or bathed in sage tea. Turkish women used sage as a natural hair dye for gray hair, and it still recommended for use in dark hair. |
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 Jupiter claims this, and bids me tell you, it is good for the liver, and to breed blood. A decoction of the leaves and branches of Sage made and drank, saith Dioscorides, provokes urine, brings down women's courses, helps to expel the dead child, and causes the hair to become black Nicholas Culpeper |
 There is an old Arab belief that if your sage grows well you will like a long time. During the fourteenth century, three leaves a day were to be eaten to avoid the 'evil aire'. Sage was also a favorite of the Hungarian gypsies, they believed that it attracted good and dispelled evil. |
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