Salvia officinalis
HRB-0258Entry “SAGE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.
Historical correspondence. Ruled by Jupiter, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
Jupiter claims this, and bids me tell you, it is good for the liver, and to breed blood.
Also Sage taken with wormwood is good for the bloody-flux.
Gargles likewise are made with Sage, rosemary, honey-suckles, and plantain, boiled in wine or water, with some honey or allum put thereto, to wash sore mouths and throats, cankers, or the secret parts of man or woman, as need requires.
and is of much use in all defluctions of rheum from the head, and for the diseases of the chest or breast.
Three spoonfuls of the juice of Sage taken fasting, with a little honey, doth presently stay the spitting or casting of blood of them that are in a consumption.
The juice of Sage taken in warm water, helps a hoarseness and a cough.
And with other hot and comfortable herbs, Sage is boiled to bathe the body and the legs in the Summer time, especially to warm cold joints, or sinews, troubled with the palsy and cramp, and to comfort and strengthen the parts.
as also for all pains of the joints, whether inwardly or outwardly, and therefore helps the falling-sickness, the lethargy, such as are dull and heavy of spirit, the palsy;
The juice of Sage taken in warm water, helps a hoarseness and a cough.
Jupiter claims this, and bids me tell you, it is good for the liver, and to breed blood.
Sage is of excellent use to help the memory, warming and quickening the senses;
It stays the bleeding of wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers.
helps the stinging and biting of serpents, and kills the worms that breed in the ear, and in sores.
It stays the bleeding of wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.