11. Salvia officinalis (Garden Sage)

The Plantology Podcast

In this week's episode we talk about another wonderful common culinary herb that is also highly medicinal and a very potent herb. Sage is an herb that was utilized heavily in ancient and medieval times medicinally. Listen in to learn how this wonderful herb has been worked with throughout history.
This is the recipe that was said to be written on the walls of Marseille, France as well as being displayed in the Museum of Paris in 1937.

Take three pints of strong white wine vinegar, add a handful of each of wormwood, meadowsweet, wild marjoram and sage, fifty cloves, two ounces of campanula roots, two ounces of angelic, rosemary and horehound and three large measures of camphor. Place the mixture in a container for fifteen days, strain and express then bottle. Use by rubbing it on the hands, ears and temples from time to time when approaching a plague victim.
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