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“Salvia officinalis (garden sage)”

Sage (Salvia officinalis)
In nature, Salvia officinalis (Sage), a small, perennial, evergreen shrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers, is a suffruticose chamaephyte species of the Lamiaceae family (mint family) in the order of Lamiales.
In herbology, the Salvia officinalis herb has been used internally as tea or chewed for treatment of respiratory tract, mouth, gastrointestinal tract, and skin. *

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References & Citations:


1. Kianbakht S. et al "Antihyperlipidemic Effects of Salvia officinalis L. Leaf Extract in Patients with Hyperlipidemia: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial" Phytother Res. 2011 Apr 19
2. Ninomiya K. et al "Carnosic acid, a new class of lipid absorption inhibitor from sage" Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2004 Apr 19;14(8):1943-6
3. Vogl S. et al "Ethnopharmacological in vitro studies on Austria's folk medicine--an unexplored lore in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of 71 Austrian traditional herbal drugs" J Ethnopharmacol. 2013 Oct 7;149(3):750-71
4. Geraci A. et al "The wild taxa utilized as vegetables in Sicily (Italy): a traditional component of the Mediterranean diet" J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2018 Feb 14;14(1):14

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