this will usually stop the spitting of blood. For foul ulcers or old lesions use as indicated by case.
The infusion as a gargle for sore, ulcerated, strained, relaxed uvulva, etc., of the throat is worth
remembering, used alone or with cider vinegar, honey, sumac (Rhus glabra).
From Dr. Brown (1875): “It is called by some a most capital remedy for spermatorrhoea, and for
excessive venereal desire, and I am one of those who know from experience in my practice that it is grand
for what is termed sexual debility when its use is indicated.”
DOSE: Tincture, 16–40 drops three or four times a day. Decoction, 1 teaspoonful of leaves to 1 cupful of
boiling water, hot or cold, depending on condition for which it is used.
EXTERNALLY: The decoction is used to cleanse old ulcers and wounds, and massaged into the scalp if
troubled with dandruff, falling hair, or loss of hair (if the root is dormant and not destroyed).
HOMEOPATHIC CLINICAL: Tincture of fresh leaves and blossom tip for cough (tickling), phthisis, night
sweats.
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: In the Middle Ages much credit was given to the power of shalfey (sage) as a food
and medicine. Many couplets like the following have been written about it:
Contra vim mortis
Crescit salvia in hortis.
(Against power of death
Sage grows in the garden.)Cur moriatur homo
cui salvia crescit in hortis.
(Why man would die
When sage grows in the garden.)More than five hundred species grow wild, some being cultivated in south Russia and west Siberia as
food and medicine aromatics. Folk medicine and clinically: Aromatic, astringent, antiseptic, carminative,
disinfectant (against inflammations). Commercial: Seven to eight pounds of seed are sown per acre, and
in five years’ time they can harvest two or three times a season, gathering up to 600 pounds per acre the
first year and 1,200 pounds the following season. With exceptional climate conditions and care it is
possible to gain 3,000 pounds per acre.