Sage
Botanical name: Salvia officinalis
Dutch: Salie, German: Salbei, French: Sauge
Mint family Labiatae
General
description
Sage comes originally from the countries in the Balkans and around the Mediterranean Sea.
One finds Sage everywhere in South Europe, until a height of 800 meters and in the gardens of the Provence is often to see. Sage is now cultivated everywhere, and comes rarely run wild for.
Sage is a robust half bush that becomes 30 until 100 centimetres high. The plant grows in closed bundles of subdivided, hairy stems. Sage is also a beautiful fragrant bush, popularly by the bees and often underrated as blossoming garden plant. |
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The flowers are light purple till blue with straight upper lip, in four till ten flower like appearance wreath. The white and pink forms come less often for. The flowers appeared on the old wood.
The plant blossoms from June until August with lip form flowers and have a rising bloom manner.
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The leaves grow pair be in grayish green of colour vague with yellow spots on old leaves. They are thick, downy and have an oval form with striking nerve structure at the underside of the leaf.
The leaves develop (by contact) a strong smell and have a sour, warm taste.
Also the dried leaf is extremely aromatic and spicy. |
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The stems is square and has a green colour with fine hair. The plants are wooded in the second year. Sage is a remaining and a reasonable hardy, ever green bush. The plant cannot survive strong frost. |
The seeds of Sage are dark brown, oval and very small. |
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Sage is uses next to a powerfulmedical plant also an important kitchen herb, when used alone, comes best to its right. It is however also a valuable aid by the digestion of fat dishes. The leaves are applied medicinal.
Cultivate Sage yourself.
There are much different kinds of Sage available.
Sage grows the best on a sunny place, in not too damp, lime realm, alkaline and good drained soil. It can easy grow in pots, are cultivated indoors and on windowsills. The plant can bear also only shadow.
Increase of usual sage can to let grow the seed.
All kinds take are easy at from cuttings, the root time in the summer approximately four weeks. Replant on 45 until 60 cm distance.
Clip (after the blossoming) to keep the compactness. Move the wooded plant each four or five year. Yellowish leaves can mean that the roots need more space.
The small green caterpillar eaten can be removed the leaves, these with the hand or to clip and to burn by the leaves.
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History
Sage is native in the western and southern Balkans where it grows on the bald lime rocks. Via the Swiss and French monastery gardens Sage is also been found in the Netherlands. Now one is culture plant and becomes cultivated in the southern countries on large scale.
The name Salvia, of the Latin Salvere (healthy be, cure or save), means "beneficial herb" and gives its good reputation already again.
Sage has been praised from way back as restorative means. Through regular Sage use, one would live longer. The herbalist Gerard wrote in 1597: "Sage is makes pre-eminently good for head and brains, it the senses and the memory
more alert, strengthens the nerves, repairs the health of lamb and cures trembling sorrow measures".
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For the ways from the antiquity in the garden, a guarantee for a long life and a good health was the cultivating of single sage plan. Also a bush Sage in the garden meant that the woman of the house was the boss.
In the seventeenth century became Sage by the Chinese so valued that Dutch traders noticed that the Chinese wanted to trade three boxes Chinese tea against one box sage leaf. |
For the Romans, one was hallow season collected had to become that with only ceremony. The appropriate person an offering of bread brings and wine, carries a white tunic and is barefoot and cleaned. The Roman instructions were be against the use of iron tools, a sensible measure that iron salt irreconcilable with Sage.
Long ago virgins went on the evening for the longest day in groups to a park or garden. This was the so-called midsummer night. Every virgin had a branch Sage with self and must with this Sage single ritual trade perform. If everything good lapsed appeared precisely midnight the future spouse for the marry desire virgins.
In our country, Sage cooked in the milk became. This sage milk wanted to go drank sleep for the unpleasant bed to can well.
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Applications
Decorative
The leaf stands well in wreaths and smelling tuils.
Keep house
Lay dried leaf to drive off between linen insects.
The leaves can be burnt can be boiled on charcoal or they to disinfect in water a room. Sage smoke drives away animal- and cooking smell.
Cosmetic
Use the leaf in faces steam bath and astringent cleaning lotion. Rub to let the leaf on the teeth they become whiter. The leaf also is to be used by mouth rinse. By rinsing with strong sage tea becomes (grey) hair darker and more sturdily.
Medicinal
As a medical herb, one used the leaves and sometimes the blossoming tops. From May until Junes (just before blossoms come) become the leaves and/ or branches of Sage collected and slowly dried by a temperature of 35 ° C the best taste to keep and to prevent musty.
Seed of scharlei can uses become as an extract in eye water. Beer of the scharlei was ever famous because of its stunning qualities. Of the a lot of sage kinds become red and green sage medicinal
it mostly uses.
Sage has a strong antibiotic properties (anti-bacterial and anti-mould). Watery and alcoholic extracts of the leaves become for rinse and gargle used by mouth, gums, jaw and tonsil inflammations. A few drops essential oil in salty water form wound and swear a good rinse means for (infected). The tea of sage helps against bleeding gums and throat pain. Sage sit also in many herbal toothpaste’s.
Recipe for Gargle water
1 teaspoons leaf pour with ¼ l. water.
20 minutes let pull.
Filter.
For a method for the making of a tea, click here . and for a method for the making of a tincture, click here.
Sage tea and sage wine calm the nervous system and its good by a low blood pressure. It promotes to take the digestion
through for instance a sage tea after a (excessive) meal. Sage helps also by a bad appetite and against winderigheid and can
help to defeat diarrhea.
For a method for the making of medicinal
these, click here.
The leaf contain phyto-estrogens and can through that become uses round an irregular menstruation and round transitions
complaints to treat. By opvliegers and (nocturnal) transpiration works cold tea it best, quantity 3 until 6 time daily a half
head.,. Of the tincture daily 2 until 4 teaspoons in water.
There its many tablets and drops available for exuberant transpiration, the ending of breast-feeding or gums and mouth mucous
membrane inflammation. Examples of this are Salvia (tincture ) and
Watch birds Famosan Salvia (tablets ) of Dr.
Follow by these products the indications of the producer.
Sage is prescribed these days yet against night sweat with Tbc-patients, it decreases summon the transpiration sometimes
in succession.
Sage decreases coughs and cold, and helps to prevention of a cold on the breast. Take by the beginning of flu or
cold daily 3 until 4 heads tea, possibly with gold flower. Take by
chronic complaints 2 heads tea or 3 teaspoons tincture.
Sage helps also against tiredness for or after a virus illness. An old means against pain complaints is the daily
jackdaws of three fresh leaves.
Sage is applied also as restorative means (for the heart).
Sage is cheerful, helps to drive astringent, cramp defence and by restless temples, liver illnesses, liquid finished,
stimulates and regulates the galstroom (usefully during slim) and it cleans the blood.
Sages leaf, that single minutes in vinegar simmered, are good as turned for painful joints and rheumatic put on.
Sage appears to help also against painful, knobbelige breasts (consult by knobs in the breasts always a physician!),
infertility, sorrow and after miscarriages. Sages decreased also the lactation. And it appears to help by nervousness,
angstigheid, forgetfulness and confusion of older, kouwelijke and weakened men.
Applications with ethereal oil.
Steam distillation of the flowers and a colour lynx furnishes leaf till light yellow oil with a powerful aroma. The oil
shows agreements with feminine hormones.
Also for the lighting of muscle and joints pain, the oil becomes uses frequently.
Sleepiness can become strengthens the working of an ethereal oil to combine through these with other ethereal oils. Sage
is combined often together with Thyme.
Here single applications of the ethereal oil of Sage follow.
By aften, inflammations in the mouth, sensitive gums
Mix 5 until 10 drops Sage in a glass water and gargle with this 2 until 3 turn per day.
By sweat feet
10 drops Sage and 10 drops Cypress mix oil with 20 ml basis and rub in with this the feet daily.
By badly healing wounds
Mix 3 drops Sage and 3 drops Thyme in a tablespoon St. John wort oil.
Spread this mixture 2 turn per day on the wounds.
By skin problems, sores, eczema
20 drops Sage mix boiled in a glass, cooled down water.
With this 1 until 2 turn per day the skin rinse or dab.
By insect bytes
2 drops Sage on a damp wad of absorbent cotton. With this dab or lay the wad of absorbent cotton on the bite/ stab.
By flu, cold
20 drops Sage, 20 drops Rosemary and 20 drops Eucalyptus mix.
Of this mixture only drops on a tissue or handkerchief do and inhale this deeply. Daily to need.
An example of available ethereal oil, is the sage oil of the Jacob Hooy.
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Chemical properties
In the plant present matters.
Ethereal oil (below which: thujon, chamfer and
terpenen), Resin , tan-bark matter ( below which:
salviatannine ), bitters matter, Flavonoids (below which: 6-methoxygenkwanine, Genkwanine,
Hispiduline, Luteoline, Salvigenine) and Phenolic acids (below which: cafeine acid, rosemary acid and labiatic hard).
Chemical constituents.
Chained (35.0%), Sesquiterpenoids (12.0%), Esters (2.5%), Phenols (3.5%), Oxides (8.0%), Monoterpenoids (20.0%), Aromatic
aldehydes (10.0%), Alcohols (8.0%), Remainder (1.0%).
Active constituents in the Ethereal oil.
Monoterpenoids:
camfene (0.2 - 3.3%), limonene (0.5 - 4.2%), mycrene (1.2%), allo-ocimene, cis and trans beta-ocimene
(0.3%), paracymene (0.8 - 1.6%), a-pinene (0.5 - 5.5%),
beta-pinene (0.2 - 3.3%), a-and? -terpinene (0.2 and 0,5%), terpinolene (0.4%) and a-thuyene (0.21%)
Sesquiterpenoids:
allo-aromadendrene (0.3%), alpha and ?-cadinene, beta-caryophyllene (0.4 - 7%), beta-copaene, alpha-corocalene, a-humulene (4%), ledene, alpha-maaliene and selina-5,11
dieen
Hydrocarbures:
cis and trans-2-methyl-3-methyleen-hept-5-een (0,1%)
Not terpenic alcohols:
1-octeen-3-ol
Monoterpenols:
borneol (2 - 14%), p-cymenol-8, linalool (0.5 - 12%), terpine-1-ol-4 (0.5 - 4%), a-terpineol
(0.1 - 9%), beta-terpineol and trans-thuyanol-4 (0.4%)
Sesquiterpenols:
viridiflorol
Terpenic and not terpenic esters:
bornyl-acetate (0.8 - 3.2%), linalyl-acetate (0.6 - 2%), linalyl-isovalerate, methyl-isovalerate (0.1%) and sabinyl-
acetate (0.4%)
Fenols:
thymol
Acids:
caryophylleen-oxyde (1.1%) and 1,8-
cineol (5.5 - 14%)
Monoterpenons:
chamfer (1 - 26%), a-thuyon
(12 - 33%) and beta-thuyon (2 - 14%)
Aldehydes:
hexanal
Coumarines:
aesculetine
Bifunctional components:
Salvene (?)
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Precautions
Do not use during pregnancy or by epilepsy. Use also no sage during breast-feeding,
because the milk becomes it drier from. The in courts used quantities are well safe.
Weathered not sage with artemisia kinds!
Sage may not become taken in (for a long time) in a high doses.
The most ethereal oils cannot be taken in without risk. Use ethereal exclusive internal oil has as you sufficient knowledge
or consult a (homeopathic) physician. Over the general is however the working by external use more strongly than by internal
use.
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Culinary
Single fresh leaves by fat dishes simplifies the digestion.
Sage justest excellent by all pork and goose courts.
Sage is an utmost important constituent by the preparation of the famous Provincials "Aigo boulida". A
soup that is served the digestion to simplify of everything after that yet will be eaten.
The flowers of sage have been arranged to cut up in salads. The leaf is good to combine with other strong tastes. The
making of sage vinegar and sage butter is the trying
landlord.
Recipe 1, Stuffing of onion and sage.
In England, `s wanted to foresee on Sunday the meat of a stuffing. That must the fat in the meat oppose, absorb juices,
hide promote taste and smell of bad meat, and the digestion. The stuffing has been arranged also for large tomatoes and
sweet peppers, and as independent dish.
Requisites.
1 shredded small onion
1 dessert spoon sage (fresh or dried)
1 ts thyme and/ or rosemary
1 head bread Krum
1 dessert spoon pine tree seed or hooked notes (no peanuts)
1 dessert spoon oats
1 egg
toe garlic (when wished)
salt and pepper to taste
Mix everything, fill there vegetable or meat courts with, or bin on a greased oven plate 20 minutes in hot oven.
Recipes 2, Deep-fried season.
All what more strongly tasting herbs qualify. Pimpernel leaf has a fine form and a good taste. Sage, basil or zuring
are also on to order.
Requisites.
20 until 30 herb leaf (dependent on the size)
Oil for the deep-frying
Requisites for the possession.
100 g flower
novelty salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons warm water
the protein of 1 large egg
For 4 persons
Rinse the herb leaf carefully finished and dry she.
Prepare the possession: sieve the flower with the salt in a bowl.
Stir the oil and the water through the flower mixture till a slippery possession is arise.
Let the possession 1-2 hour on a cool place stand.
Knock the protein stiff and spatula it carefully through the possession.
Do not heat the oil till a drop of the possession crispy and brown becomes, but burns.
Christen the leaves one furrow
one in the possession and deep-fry they with single pieces at the same time in 2-3 minutes well brown.
Take the leaves carefully from the oil and let they leak on kitchen paper.
Holds the herb leaf warm in the oven till all leaves have been deep-fried and serve they after that immediate.
Recipe 3, sage wine.
You can prepare leaf to let sage wine through during 10 days an about twenty Sage macereren through a soft white wine.
Recipe 4, potato puree with garlic and sage.
Ingredients.
400 grams potatoes
3 toes garlic
3 tablespoons olive oil
½ teaspoon sore minced sage
½ decilitre sour cream
1 teaspoon mustard
1 tablespoon minced parsley
salt to taste
Preparations manner.
Peel the potatoes and cook they in 20 minutes done.
Pours off the liquid.
Peel in the meantime the toes garlic and cut they in very thin slices.
Heat the oil and bin the slices garlic of in this auburn.
Join the sage closed and set the fire out.
Pound the warm potatoes fine and stir there the sour cream, the mustard, the parsley and the oil
With the baked garlic and the sage through.
Bring the potato puree with a novelty salt on taste.
Recipe 5, Asparagus with Sage.
Ingredients.
8 slices fillo dough (freezer)
1 pot green asparagus (190 g)
1 teaspoon sage
2 tablespoons oil
1 egg
12 slices boiled ham
Preparation (20 minutes).
(Fillo dough of before according to indication in ca. 2 hour let thaw).
Ovens preheat on 225°C or gas oven 5.
Cut in half the asparagus and strew the ham plakjes with sage.
Role in each slice ham 2 half asparagus.
The fillo dough in strips divide, as broad as the asparagus-ham rolls.
Cover the dough with oil.
Knock the egg loose.
Roll the ham rolls in 2 slices fillo dough and cover it with the losgeklopt egg.
Bake then in the middle of oven in ca. 10 minutes the rolls auburn.
You can warm she or serve hardly.
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Other variants
Remaining images
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MbH (1999). ISBN 3-8290-1511-9
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