SALVIA OFFICINALIS

Sage
Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled; of less use in phthisis with
night-sweats and suffocating tickling cough. Galactorrha. 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 hypersthesia 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 amenorrha; tuberculosis.
Anmia; undernourished conditions; splenic anmia. 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.