The many Sage species were utilized in traditional medicine by cultures spanning the entire globe. In European medicine, tea from the leaves proved a soothing eyewash and bath aromatic. A tincture of clary sage was used for hysteria and colic as a basalm and antispasmodic.
References:
Grieve, M. (Maud). A Modern Herbal; the Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses. New York :Harcourt, Brace & company, 1931.
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