Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Sage

Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Today we are going to talk about an herb that is absolutely synonymous with herbal medicine, and it is sage. Sage is one of our most important medicinal herbs, so important that I guess it was Hippocrates that said, why should a man die at the sage growing in his garden? It was considered to be an absolute panacea in ancient Greece. The name sage itself is the same root word as well, where we get both the word for like a wise person, a sage, or to save. In Latin, it's salva salve. So sage was so immensely esteemed by our ancestors. Now we think of it mostly as a seizing for sausage. And while I love sage in my sausage and I make my own sausage, I absolutely love sausage. It is so much more than that. But first of all, I want to remind you that my new b is available, co written with Stephen Cunningham. It's available through Sophia Press or anywhere good books are sold. It's called Herbs that He'll be sure to check it out. You know, the feedback on it's been absolutely fantastic so far. All right, now let's get into the show. You know, I should probably mention one more thing because it is slightly PREPA related. I have started a series on one of my podcasts. You know, I have the Well I do this podcast or woll Medicine for Preppers. I do the Southern Apalachian RBS podcasts every week week, which is a longer format, usually around an hour, where we really really dive deep into stuff. I have a third podcast, and I'm not sure I've really mentioned on this show before. It's called The Uncensored Catholic Podcast, and I'm Catholic, and I talk about a religion, current events, politics, basically everything I can't really get into in my herb podcasts. And if you've listened to my herbal podcasts for a while, you know I don't really hold back there. So I mean, I pretty much tell it the way I see it, And yeah, you know, i'll make a political statement, lose a thousand subscribers, but then you know they come back or others replace them, so I'm not going to hold my tongue. Well, the Uncensored Catholic Podcast doesn't really get into herbal medicine. It's really been more religious focused. I have started a series on the Catholic teaching on the end times, based on a book written the eighteen nineties, The End of This Present World and the Mysteries of the Life to Come. It is incredible book that has been heavily censored. It was when it first came out eighteen nineties, very popular. It is written in French by a French priest, and it's using, you know, the writings of saints and scholars and theologians and mystics and the Catholic tradition going back two thousand years and even before some of the Jewish traditions. Such is incredibly well researched. It came out, it was pretty influential. Really. After World War Two they started trying to censor it and you get rid of it. The reason and this really should not become controversial, Okay. So the Antichrist is supposed to be the mirror image of Christ. Right, he is going to do perform similar miracles to Christ. He's going to be accepted as the Messiah. He's going to become a world leader, world ruler, embraced by one world governments. I mean, that's what most of us believe about who the Antichrist will eventually be. You know, anybody who's opposed to Christ is an Antichrist. But we're talking the big guy at the end of time. Right, By definition, he'll have to be Jewish, because Jesus was Jewish. By definition, he'll have to be Jewish to be accepted as the Messiah by religious Jews. That became a very controversial topic after the Holocaust for obvious reasons. It is not in any way an anti Semitic book. It really doesn't get into that kind of topic at all. But it was pulled from the shelves around the same time and really before and then really from the time it came out, it was heavily opposed by the Freemasonry and Masonic Order, and then what would become, you know, the League of Nations and the United Nations, because this Antichrist would be a world governing figure and very highly ranked in the Masonic Order. Actually, there's a lot of church teachings to say he will be essentially the head of the Freemasons before establishing that head of basically what the United Nations or something like that, whatever you want to think of. The World War One World government who whatever will be at that time. Obviously it may not be what we what our order is now. The Masons began banning this book, confiscated the book, you know, burning it, getting rid of it immediately, so really within it by nineteen hundred at least, and it was written in the eighteen nineties, we'll say at least by the nineteen twenties, it was getting to be very hard to get a copy of this book. Now you will be and I hope Protestants will listen to this as well. This is a very like sectarian at all. If you want to know what Christianity has taught about the end times, the apocalypse for two thousand years, you should really listen to the series I'm doing on it. I just did the second show yesterday. It's The Uncensored Catholic. The series is then to this present world and the mysteries of the life to come. You'll probably find out that Catholic teach well, you'll probably be surprised to find out if you're not Catholic. Catholic teaching is extremely different from the like the Left Behind series. Okay, we do not believe in the rapture. For instance, the concept of the rapture is very new, it's only about one hundred years old. For two thousand years, the Church has said exactly what the Bible says. Christians will suffer through this period. There's not gonna be some dispensation where they're taken away and kept safe for that reason, whether you agree with that or not, and I'm going to give you plenty of evidence and you can make up your own mind. But we know things will get a whole lot worse in the end days, and as preppers sometimes we kind of have that in the back of our mind, you know. I mean, I, frankly don't think the world's going to end anytime soon. And I get into the reasons why of that on the show. I don't think we are. We've been in the end time since the resurrection of Christ. But to the Lord, one day is a thousand days, of a thousand days is as one day, you know what the Bible says, or a thousand years is one year. Our sense of time is linear and his is not. And there's so much that has been predicted, especially by various Christians who've had visions and spoken with angels and such given specific messages on this It says, we got a long ways to go. Okay, But as preppers were always preparing, spiritual preparation is really as important as any physical preps you do. I mean, we try to stay healthy, we try to stay in good shape, We try to make sure we can hike ten miles. Right. Let me tell you someone who's been through devastating hurricanes. By the way, the state of North Carolina's gonna come knock my house down next month. They condemned it. Yeahlood damage was so bad and they said it was unlivable. And after almost two years of them, you know, leaving me hanging and saying, no, you can't do anything. You can't fix your house. You have to just kind of live in limbo here while we're waiting for an environmental review and all that. They could come knocked down my house and they're gonna put something in its place that will not be my beautiful cabin in the woods with the big stone fireplace and the big porch on the side and everything I loved about the house. So, you know, having been through such as that, and not just a storm, but the aftermath the patients, it takes for the rebuilding for things to get back to normal. Then the patients it takes with having a deal with government agencies for almost two years. I can tell you that if you're not spiritually prepared, if you don't have that sense of peace of divine providence, that God's in control and everything's going to work out, You're going to lose your fricking mind. You know, probably a lot of suicides in western North Carolina could be directly attributed to Hurricane and Helen. It's the trauma, it's the PTSD aspect of it, but it's also the patience and the faith that you have to have that frankly, you know most of us do lack. It doesn't come to me easily. I'm a fix it now kind of guy, and I've had to learn a lot of patience and just trust and divine providence, and I know everything's gonna work out one way or another. God works all things together for the good of those who love it. Right. So when we look at such topics as like the end times, throughout history, people have been freaking out, I mean terms of the century, Like the year January first, eighteen hundred, people were thinking it's the end of the world. There's starts selling all their possessions, freaking out up all night praying. January two came along and nothing happened. Same thing happened in nineteen hundred, even a bigger scale. Every time Haley's comic comes by. Every time we have an eclipse of the sun. We had eclipse of the sun. What two three years ago. I'm driving up by nine five minutes. There's all these billboards the end is here. Turn on to Preacher Bob's radio station. Hear the message about the end time. Yeah, we had an eclipse, just like we've had thousands of others and nothing happened. On the one hand, you kind of need to know, and this this book gets really into the actual signs of when it's going to happen. You kind of need to know that so you don't freak out. Obviously, you don't freak out. And the Bible says those who endure unto the end will be saved. That's one of the main reasons Catholics don't believe in the raptures, because Jesus actually said you have to endure until the end. But anyway, regardless, you need to know sort of what to look for and a lot of where, a lot of people get so confused. Is like when Jesus was talking about the end times in the Bible, he talked about first the fall of Jerusalem following the Resurrection. Within seventy years, Rome had totally destroyed Israel, the Temple was torn down, everything, There were earthquakes, there were eclipses that happened during that time. Most of what he was saying to the apostles was what was they were going to experience within their own lifetimes. That was the end of that world essentially, and then a new world through Christianity was going to be built. And then he also talks about the actual end of the world itself, and it's very difficult without guidance not to mix those two together and get very confused. That's why people freak out every time there's an eclipse or an earthquake or the calendar changes, which is just ridiculous, because you know, he said, no one knows the day or the date or the time. You know. Anyway, I hope you'll listen to it, whether you agree with me religiously or politically or whatever or not. I think you're going to find a lot of just incredible insight, incredible information, a lot of it's going to put your mind to ease, and then you know, spiritually you can be prepared for whether it's the end of time or the end of your time. You know, we're all going to go through very hard times at the end of our lives. Very few of us get an easy ride in life, and much less an easy exit. So I hope you enjoy it. And yeah, I just want to mention that now we will talk about sage. So in the history of verbal medicine, perhaps no herb has been more widely praised sin Sage. Nearly every herb is so familiar with the old saying by Hippocrates, why should a man die while sage grows in his garden. Sage has a vast history of use his medicine and religious ceremonies in folklore. I would go so far as say that sage in wormwood were the families primarily the family of herbs used in early medicine. And it's no coincidence that the name of the herb sage is the same as used for wisdom and visionaries. There are approximately five hundred members of the salvia family that are used by humans nearly worldwide. Salvia derives from the Latin word salve, which means to heal or to save. Yeah, it may be the signature medicinal or historically, the first writings were the first teachings, I should say, and the midicinal use of sage are absolutely lost in time. I mean it goes back as far as human history. We find it's first mentioned in what we have, what we've been able to save in the ebers Papyrus, which goes to fifteen fifty BC recommending sage and describe its use in ancient Egypt using it as a stringent nantiseptic. The Divine Husbandman's classic of Shingnung goes back actually even further. In China, we have documented research to twenty eight hundred BC and it was used to invigorate the blood in for eye issues. So, for the purpose of this today'scussion, talk about salvia efficient knowledge. Like I said, there are a good five hundred different varieties of sage. Some of them have psychoactive properties, some of them well they're just many, many, many many, But we'll talk about salvia efficient knowledge just to make things clear. So dias coarities refer to sage and it gives a long description of it. But you can look it up. You know what sage looks like. Anyway, you should at the cocture of the leaves and branches. Taking us a drink and is able to induce the movement of urine and minstrel flow. It helps. Let's see, this is really interesting. For as long as minicial history has been recorded, a tea of sage has been used as a hair dye. Yeah, you can color your hair black by washing it with sage tea. My herbal teacher, Rosie Rosy Hicks did that. She was in her eighties with long black hair because she was half Cherokee, and she washed her hair with sage. It's a good w herb and blood stauncher. It cleanses wild ulcers to coxture of the leaves and branches with wine applied on, applied with hot cloths whose itchiness around the genitals dissolves chilliness and coughs, and is good used with rosation or rose oil and wax for all bad ulcers. Take a drink with white wine. It cures the painful spleen in dysentery. Similarly, given as a drink, it cures blood splitting, blood spitting. It's usually tuberculosis and excess in menstrul of bleeding. It's a very good herb. Sage has this quality of just like drying things up. It'll reduce everything from bleeding to sweating or mother's milk. Yeah, they actually had a wine that was used in discordious time that let's see put eight ounces of the herb into nine gallons of wine. Must be a big jug for that a barrel. Anyway, He said it was good for disorders of kidney, bladder and sides, as well as from blood spinners, costs, hernia's convulsions, bruises, and impeded minstrel flow. It will actually bring on mincies as well as help curb excessive bleeding. One thing I do need to say for going further, speaking of the wormwood family, sage is very different than American sage brush. Salvia and sagebrush are two different families. Sagebrush is actually an artemesia. So American sage you want to make sure you're actually getting salvia, fishi and knolis, which is not the same sage used for smudging and such by Native Americans, especially in the western pros country. All right, so pleading the elder wrote about sage. He said, it is a minagogue, diuretic. Minagogue brings on mint seeds in a diuretic. It affords a remedy for wounds, especially the wound of the sting ray. That's interesting. It would have the property of benumbing the part affected. It is taken in a drink with wormwood for dysenteria. Applied with wine, it acceleberates. I don't even know what that word is, cataminia, catamnia. I don't know. The plant applied by itself staunches blood, means it helps with wounds. It is a cure two for the stings of serpents, and a decoction of it in wine alais pu ago in the Testes. I don't know what purego is either, but yeah, you can look that up. So let's see. Ancient Romans considered sage to be a holy herb who was used in religious ceremonies and a drive away evil spirits, much as Native Americans use sage in their ceremonies. Actually so pretty common. Actually, in Christian Rome, the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne ordered sage to be grown as a medicinal herb in all gardens. That was around eight pot two a d. Sage was an herb grown of the physic garden by the Benedictines, and including in the Officino or the apothecary, which is why it has the word of fish and OLiS. The first herbal written in the Christian era was by Abbott Walaford's rabo At around eight forty eight hundred and forty AD, and he wrote there of sage. There the very front grows sage, sweetly scented. It deserves to grow green forever and enjoying perpetual youth, for it is rich in virtue and good to mix in a potion of proven uses for many a human ailment. But within itself is a germ of civil war. For unless the new growth is cut away, it turns savagely on its parents and chokes him to death. The older stem is bitterly jealous. He had a way about him, an odd way. But yeah, you're going to get better growth if you trim your sage back, That's really all he's saying. So around eleven hundred, Saint Kildergard von Bingen recommended sage against noxious humors for those for excess flims. She says it should be taken infused in wine. She recommended for those who are virtgats to get, And I don't blame you if you don't know what virgis to get means. Really, we don't have a modern definition for it. According to the old books, it could be anything from paralysis to palsy, to bad arthritis to stiffness I think is what we call Southerners would call being stoved up. Anyway, and she said it was good for those who had palsy and had head and stomach complaints. Urinearing continents and testial pains and coughing of blood could be I mean virgigs to get to be anything from arthritis to stroke to an epileptic condition or weakness or paralysis of a limb. So it's kind of hard to figure that one out exactly. But she wrote that ointment of rosen sage and fused and melted lard was good for muscle cramps and paralysis, so you kind of figure where she's going with it. She said, also, one who is tortured by paralysis should take equal weights of parsley and fiddle with a little less sage. She should grind these together in modern amounts in a more and add rose tinged olive oil to it. He should place it over the place where he's suffering and tie it with a cloth. We we have the fifteen hundreds England Gerard, so that sage is manifestly hot and dry, he said. Agrippa and Atis have called it the holy herb because women with child, if they be like to come before their time and are trouble with abortments, to eat thereof to their great good, for it closeth the matrix and maketh them pruthful, retaining the birth and giving it life. Okay, So definitely need to explain that he's saying it could help prevent miscarriage. Obviously, I don't rick many herbs during pregnancy, and sage can actually cause a miscarriage, so I'd take that with a huge grain of salt. But there must have been a way that they were using it. If Agrippa and Hs called it the holy herb because it would help prevent miscarriage, there may be something to it. But I'm miss saying. It needs a great deal more study, and I definitely wouldn't just recommend it. Okay, let's see. Oh, and they also thought it increased fertility, by the way, so he says, sage is singularly good for the head and brain. It quickeneth the senses and memory, strengtheneth the sinews, restoreth health to those that have the palsy upon a moist cause, takes away shaking and trembling of the members being put up the nostrils. It drawth phlim out of the head. I have never tried that. I have never put sage up my nostrils. I have to give that try next time I get all stopped up. It is likewise committed against the spinning of blood, the coth, the pains and the sides, and the biting of serpents. The juice of sage drunk with honey is good for those that spit and vomit blood and stoppeth the flux thereof incontinentally. Thereoft stoppeth the flux thereof incontinentally. In other words, it helps with interial bleeding and diarrhea, and bladder issues lack of bladder control. It expelleth the wind, drieth the drops. He helpeth the palsy, strengthened the sinews, and cleanseth the blood. The leaves sodded in water with woodbind leaves plantain, rosemary, honey, alum, and some white wine make an excellent wash for the secret parts of man or woman. The general is, in other words, and for cankers and other swords of the mouth, especially if you boil the same a fair bright, shining sea coal, which makes it of greater efficacy. I have no idea what a sea coal is. What is a fair bright, shining sea coal. I don't know. If you know, let me know. I'd like to know. No man needs to doubt that the wholesomeness of sage ale. Now this is very interesting. Yes, sage was once an herb used in ale. He says, being brewed, it should be with sage, scabius, betany, spikenards, squintsony, and fintlcy. It was considered to be a medicinal drink. People drank it all the time. The leaves of red sage put into a wooden dish, wherein is put very quick coals with some ashes at the bottom to keep the stage from burning, and a little vinegar sprinkled upon the leaves lying up on the coals, and so wrapped in a linen cloth and holding very hot onto the sides of those that are troubled with the grievous ditch take us the way the pain. Presently the same helpeth greatly the extremity of pleurisy, so in plant inflammations of the sides and the long set area. Yeah, it's worth to try too, you know. So GERARDA. Less say that one of the virtues sage was good to help permit miscorrec cariacter. Okay, iaddress that. I'm going to get back into it. Really, I would not recommend sage being used internally at all during pregnancy, unless you're working with a very, very knowledgeable midwife used herbs. You know, maybe she knows better than I do. But to me, it's just too much of a gamble. So Coulpepper, writing about one hundred years later, says it. A coction of the leaves and branches of sage made as a drink discorides, provokes uranes, brings down women's courses, helps spell after birth, and causes the hair to become black. It stays the bleeding of wounds and cleanses foul ultcers. Three spoonfuls of the juice taken fasting with a little honey doth presently stay the spinning or casting of blood. Of them that are in a consumption, it's sumerculous skip these pills are much committed. Take a spike in oar ginger of each two DRAMs the seed of sage toasted the fire, eight DRAMs of long pepper, which hard to find these days as a type of black pepper, twelve DRAMs, and all these being brought into a powder, put there to so much juice of sage as may make them into a massive pills, Taking them every morning fasting, and so likewise at night, drinking a little pure water after them. Mouthelis saith. It is very profitable for all manners of pains in the ha head coming from cold and rheumatic humors, also for all pains of the joints, whether inrily or outwardly, and therefore helps the falling sickness to the lethargy such as are dull and heavy spirit the palsy, and is of much use in all the deflections of room from the head, and for disease to the chest or breasts. The leaves of sage and nettle bruised together and laid upon impostumes that rise behind the ear, doth assuage it much. The juice of sage. Taking the warm water helps a horseness and a cough believes sodden, and wine and laid upon places affected with a palsy helps much if the decoc should also be drunk. Also so sage taken with worm wood is good for the bloody flux. Plani say it that procureth women's courses and stays them coming down too fast, helps the singing and bitings of serpents, and kills worms that breed in the ear. Oh, that'd be unpleasant. Sages of an excellent use to help the memory, warming and quickening the senses, and a conserve made for the flowers is used for the same purpose and also for all former recited diseases. The juice of sage shrink with vinegar has been of good use in time of plague. At all times, gargles likewise made likewise made with sage, rosemary, honeysuckle, and plantain boiled in water with some honey or al input there too, to wash sore mouths and throats, cankers, the secret parts of man or woman as needed, and with other hot comfortable herb. Sages boiled to bay the body and the legs of the summertime, especially to warm cold joints or sind us troubled with palsy and cramp, and to comfort and strengthen the parts. It is much committed against the stitch or paine of the side coming from wind, if it be placed, if the place be foamented warm with a decoction thereof, and wine and the herb also after boiling, be laid warm there unto Okay, we got through the old English. Let me get a sip of water here, had Elizabeth thing excuse me every time? All right, so English tradition, though we get to miss greeb nineteen thirties. She talks a lot about the history of sage, and I mean it was used all over long before really Christianity spread the monasteries and the physic gardens and the hospitals. It was used in folk medicine and English. There was an Anglo Saxon Rhyme has said he that would live for I must eat sage and my or yeah, a ye, so it could be a he that would live for A must eat sage in may with an e anyway, they thought it would prolonger life. So that's good. So also old legend s salvatrix, sage of the Savior. That's another name for it. Old tradition says that when Mary and Joseph were fleeing with the infant Jesus from Herod, they hid under a sage bush and it grew up miraculously to cover them. So huge amount of religious significance with sage. How old French saying says sage helps the nerves by its powerful mite. Palsy has cured and fever put in the flight. Oh see what else says she here, let's get into more modern use. She quotes Gerard and Colpepper and oh different ones says. Italian peasants eat sage too as a preservative of health, and many other country people eat the leaves with bread and butter. Old sage butter. I love sage butter. Yeah, take you some good dried sage sally of fish and oleas you can get from the grocery store, dried sage and just soften some butter and mix it together. That is so good on a steak. Yeah, sage butter is really good. Or a pork chop, oh man, I mean, that's really one of my favorites. Or with bone marrow with with you know, get your beef bones and scraped and scrape the marrow out a little bit of sage. Oh wow. Anyway, medicinal actions and uses stimulate to stringent tonic, carminative, criminative being settles of stomach has been used in dyspepsia, also upset stomach, now mostly employed as a condiment in the United States, where it's still official medicine. This was nineteen thirties. It is in repute, especially in the form of an infusion, the principal and most valued application of which is a wash for the cure of affections of the mouth and as a gargle for sore throats. It's one of the best for sore throats, by the way, being excellent for relaxed throats and tonsils, and also for ulter red throat. Gargle is used for bleeding gums and to prevent excessive flow of saliva. Some other thing. Sage will reduce the saliva, just dries everything up. Basically, does she have anything else interesting? Saget good for delirium of fevers, nervous excitement, nervous diseases, and to company let's see excitement frequently accompanying the brain and nervous diseases and has considerable reputation as a remedy. Given it off repeated doses, it is highly serviceable. Is a stimulate tonic to debility of stomach and nervous system, weakness of digestion, generally good for the long stomach hemorrhages, kidney troubles, liver complaints, measles, quinsy pains, and the joint for colds flues. Yes, sage t is an absolute go to for colds and flus. Infusion made strong with lemon and really nice freshly rubbed on teeth will cleanse them and straight to the gumshot something people used to use when they didn't have toothbrushes and tooth based as such. Oh wow, she goes on for quite a while. Look at the German tradition fall the nape said, those who have a garden near the house will not forget when we're planting it. The pretty ornamental sage. I have often seen passers by take a leaf and rub their black teeth with it. It proves that the sage has a cleansing power old separating wounds. If washed with it, a cocksures say age will quickly heal. Saget will remove flim from the palate, the throat and stomach. Saget sage as tea made with water. No boy, let me try that again. Sage boiled as tea in wine or water purifies the liver and kidneys. Brother al Wisious was his protegeade. He said, salvia, fishonoles, recommended for sweating at night, asthma, coughs, chronic coughs, indigestion, diarrhea, lung catr or congestion, heavy bleeding, a gargle for horses, old sores, bed sores, paralysis, epilepsy, rheumatism, dizzeyness, shivering and shaking in the lambs, catterists, rote, congestion of the blood of the brain, nervous complaints, weak stomach gas, colic asthma, worms, inogestion, chronic coughing and gout, a gargle for scurvy, thrush, and throat complaints, and to enlighten the brain. And he actually puts that in quotes, so he didn't bother to define that. But you can see sage I mean obviously thought of a panacea. This is well up into the nineteen hundreds. Now, Maria treven writing in the seventies. Oh boy, she gives a story of how the Holy Family hid from Herod and then it just sage tea drunk frequently strengthens the body, prevents strokes, and is good for paralysis paralysis. Sage, besides the lavender is the only plant that will help relieve night sweats. Wow. Good physicians were using in Austria at her time for cramps, disorders of spinal cord, glandular disorders, trembling in the limbs, liver complaints, flatulence as a blood cleanser, as a spell, flim from the respiratory organs, and the stomach increased the appetite for intestinal troubles and diarrhea. Sage t used for ulterate mouth and throat information of tooth, pulp, tonsilize and throat disorders, all kinds of kidney issues, baths to help women with abdominal troubles and people with weak nerves. Oh, she liked making sage biscuits to have with roast venison. Yeah, that'd be good. Absolutely. Sage, she said, was a long time and savory add to pork, goose and turkey, not only for the aroma, but to help it to digesting the fat. One of one of the most interesting her was this Maurice Message of France. Because he did everything topically. He used foot baths and and she said for allergies, foot and hand bass made from one large crush out of garlic, one handful of single seed hawthorn blossoms, a handful of semifresh greater celandine flowers and stems, a handful of couch grass, a handful of common broom, one handful of sage leaves, and one of linden blossoms. That's one of his. He has another formulator for asthma, another one for exema, liver weakness, galt liver disease, depression. He used sage a lot. I'm not going to give you all his formulas. His book is well, this is available in mindsight Wlipedia Medicinal Bitter Herbs. But for all his formulas and information, book was of men and Plants. I think it was later renamed of People and Plants, you know, to be politically correct whatever. But he also used it in his cure for depression or as remedy as you guess I should say. Now let's get to modern use. Salvi efficionalis from plants for future Sage has a very long history of effective medicinal use and has important domestic herbal remedy for disorders of the digestive system. Its antiseptic qualities make an effective gargle for the mouth, where it can heeral sore throats, ulters, et cetera. The leaves applied to an aching tooth will often relieve the pain. The whole herb is anti hydrautic, means drives things up, antiseptic, any spasmodic as stringent carminity of colagogue galactifuse, that's the reducing mother's milk, stimulant, tonic and vasodilator. Sage is used internally in the treatment of excessive lactation, night sweats, successive cellvation such as in salivations such as in Parkinson's disease, profuse to perspiration such as in tuberculosis, anxiety depression, female sterility, and menipulsal problems. Many herbalists believe that the purple leaf form of this species is more potent medicinally, this remedy should not be prescribed for pregnant women or people that have epileptic fits. The plant is toxic and excess when taken for extended periods, though toxic dose is very large. Externally, it is used to treat insect bite, skins, sores, throat and mouth, gum infections, and vaginal discharge. Les are best harvested before the plant comes into flour and dried for later use. Essential oil from the plant is used in small doses to remove heavy collections of mucus from the respiratory organs, and mixed in imbrications for the treatment of rheumatism. In larger doses, however, it can cause epileptic fits, giddiness, it's dizziness. The essential oil is used in a rome etherea. It's keyword is tonic. I am sure there's a lot more in here. I got some of the Ore Greaves recipes, some of wonderful British food is very sage heavy. Traditionally, She's got a sage and onion stuffing for ducks, geese and pork. It is fantastic, by the way, sage and onion stuffing, absolutely delicious. A sage and onion sauce very traditional in English cooking. Also just fantastic. Relish for roast pork or goose using sage and lemon peel and salt and shallte some religious fantastic A sage sauce, A sage cheese, yes, also a very traditional in England. Sage cheese. Just absolutely boy. I don't even know if you can still buy that in America. You know, my family had a cheese shop when I was young. I remember sage cheese. It's fantastic. Oh, let's see, yeah, I mean having to wrap it up there. I mean, it's just one of my favorite herbs to cook with. It's one of my favorite medicinal herbs, and I put it in my top five or ten. Without a doubt it's gonna be the top one or two. Sage is great. So y'all have a great week and I will talk to you next time. The information this podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Nothing I say or write has been evaluated or approved by the FDA. I'm not a doctor. The US government does not recognize the practice of verbal medicine, and there is no governing body regulating herbless Therefore, I'm really just a guy who says herbs. I'm not offering any advice. I won't even claim that anything I write or say is accurate or true. I can tell you what earths has been traditionally used for. 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