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Salvia officinalis

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Sage is an evergreen, much-branched, shrub growing 50 - 100cm tall. A very ornamental plant, sage is commonly grown in the herb garden for culinary and medicinal purposes.

Uses

Night sweats, Excessive salivation, Anxiety, Depression, Female sterility, Menopausal problems, Insect bites, Throat infections, Skin infections, Mouth infections.[1]

Parts Used

Leaves, Flowers.

Chemical Composition

It contains main components of the oil include borneol, camphor, caryophyllene, cineole, elemene, humulene, ledene, pinene, and thujone.9, 12, 13 Alcoholic and aqueous extracts of S. officinalis are rich in flavonoids particularly rosmarinic acid and luteolin-7-glucoside.[2]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English


Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Evergreen shrub

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

[3]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
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Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings of heeled shoots, Cuttings of half-ripe wood, Cuttings of mature wood, Layering in spring.

How to plant/cultivate

A plant of the temperate to subtropical zones, it can be cultivated at elevations above 500 metres in the drier regions of the tropics.[4]

Commonly seen growing in areas

On dry banks, On stony places.

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References

  1. Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
  2. Chemical constituents
  3. [Morphology]
  4. Cultivation

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