Salvia officinalis
Plant · Lamiaceae
Salvia suits individuals with enfeebled circulation, cold extremities, and soft, relaxed skin who suffer from excessive or colliquative perspiration. It exerts a tonic influence on the skin and sudoriparous glands. The remedy is of use in phthisis with night-sweats and tickling cough, and in galactorrhoea.
Key symptoms
- Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled
- Colliquative perspiration with cold extremities and soft relaxed skin
- Night-sweats in phthisis with suffocating tickling cough
- Galactorrhoea (excessive milk flow)
- Tonic influence on the skin with enfeebled circulation
- Tickling cough especially in consumption
Sage
Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled; of less use in phthisis with night-sweats and suffocating tickling cough. Galactorrhœa. Exerts a tonic influence on the skin.
Respiratory
Tickling cough, especially in consumption.
Skin
Soft, relaxed, with enfeebled circulation and cold extremities. Colliquative perspiration.
Relationship
Compare: Chrysanhemum Leucanthemum--Ox-eye Daisy. Has specific action on sudoriparous glands. Quiets nervous system like Cypripedium. Right sided tearing pain in bones of jaw and temple. Pain in teeth and gums, worse touch, better warmth. Irritable and tearful. Here use 12x. Insomnia and night-sweats. For colliquative sweating and hyperæsthesia of nervous system. Material doses of tincture. Phelland; Tuberc; Salvia sclerata (tonic influence on nervous system; dose, teaspoonful to one pint hot water, as inhalent for sponging). Rubia tinctorum-Madder-A remedy for the spleen (Ceanothus). Chlorosis and amenorrhœa; tuberculosis. Anæmia; undernourished conditions; splenic anæmia. Dose, 10 drops of tincture.
Dose
Tincture, in twenty-drop doses, in a little water. The effects manifest themselves quickly two hours after taking a dose, and they persist for from two to six days.
Salvia officinalis. Common Sage. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and blossom-tips.
Clinical
Cough, tickling. Phthisis. Night-sweats.
Characteristics
H. R. (xii. 408) translates from Leip. Pop. Z. f. H., August, 1897, an article on the use of Salvia as a gargle in sore throat, and as a mouth wash in affections of the gums, but more especially in affections of the respiratory organs. The tickling cough of consumptives and the night-sweats were entirely relieved by doses of 20 to 40 drops in a tablespoonful of water. The H. R. translator adds this case: Mrs. X. had had for three weeks an irritating cough following an attack of pneumonia. The irritation being particularly great, he gave her, fresh from the garden, some Sage to chew, and the irritation was instantly relieved.
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