SALVIA OFFICINALIS ( Garden sage, Sage )

Description:--

A low, straggling, deciduous, perennial undershrub, with ascending or decumbent stem 3 feet high, giving off root at the nodes, bluntly quadrangular, with erect, hoary branches, leafy at the base, those bearing flowers 1 to 1 ½ feet long, tomentose. The leaves are numerous, opposite, crowded on the barren branches, entire, petiolate, oblong, narrowed or rounded, rugose, the lowermost white, with wool beneath; floral leaves sessile, ovate, acuminate, and striated at the base, veiny above, wooly and whitish beneath. The large flowers are blue, variegated with white, on short pubescent pedunles, arranged in axillary cymes of three or five. All parts of the plant are more or less glandular, have a strong aromatic odour and a bitter, somewhat astringent taste.

Found in :- Southern Europe, extensively cultivated in England, France, Germany and the United Sates.

Part Used:--

The fresh leaves.

Preparation:--

(a)Tincture Q: =	Drug Strength 1/10
Salvia officinalis, moists magma containing solids	100 gm
Plant moisture 233 Cc.	= 333
Distilled water	167 Cc.
Strong alcohol	635 Cc.
To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.

(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part of tincture, three parts distilled water, six parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.