russian provisions to ambassadors, 1630ish

Ok, here's more from Olearius from The travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia, ed. Samel H. Baron (Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1967):
"We recieved daily 62 loaves of bread, each worth a kopek; a quarter of beef; four sheep, 12 chickens, and two geese; a hare or a partridge; 50 eggs; ten kopeks for candles, and five kopeks for the kitchen. In addition, we recieved weekly a pud ([36] pounds) of butter, a pud of salt, three buckets of vinegar, two sheep, and a goose. We daily recieved 15 tankards for the ambassadors and hofjunkers; three small ones of vodka, one of Spanish wine, eight of various meads, and three of beer. In addition, they provided for our attendants one barrel of beer, a small cask of mead, and another small cask of vodka.
These provisions were furnished in double measure on the day of our arrival and also on Palm Sunday, Easter, and the young prince's birthday...." (p.96)

culpepper on Salvia

My translation
Garden sage is so common that even students of medicine and plants say it needs no description.
Its flowers are of a light blue, though I have seen some few that flow'rd white, and it flowereth in the summer-time, from the feast of John the Baptist to the Assumption of the Virgen-- should the weather be untimely hot and dry, the sage flowereth early; in wet years, the sage flowereth latter.
By reason of its tartness, its greyness, and that it be associated with blood and with wisdom, the learned Astronomers do say sage is associated with the planet Jupiter, which makes it powerful in sanguine causes.

A decoction of sage, the leaves and branches boiled in water, hath many uses. Because of its heating nature, In the summer-time, it is used to bath legs and joynts when they ache with palsey or the cramp. It is said that oft bathing with it strengthens the joints and sinews.
It is much used for ills and itching of the privy parts of men and women, being boiled and laid to the parts, or burnt and the smoke directed thereto.

Because of its biting and cutting nature, sage juyce in water, or sage boiled in water or wine, is much recommended for the washing of wounds and for sores in the throat, and for the cough.

The ancients and many modern hus-wives say that a fomentation of sage with wine, the boiled herb laid upon the place, be good for a Stitch; but I say the cure is in the heat of the fomentation. For many and many say a fomentation of this or that herb be good for a stitch, but a pillow of warm oat-bran, or even a cat or dogge, laid against the place, doth ofttimes ease such a cramp.

Decoction in water: diuretic, emmenagogue, expels dead child, hair-dye, would cleanser and stypic.
Decoction in wine: wash for 'itching of the cods'

Quotes from Culpeper

Agrippa saith, That if Women that cannot conceive by reason of the moist slipperiness of their Wombs shall take a quantity of the Juyce of Sage with a little Salt for four daies before they company with their Husbands, it will help them not only to Conceive, but also to retain the Birth without miscarrying.
Orpheus saith, Three spoonfuls of the Juyce of Sage taken fasting with a little Honey, doth presently stay the spitting or casting up of Blood. For them that are in a consumption, these Pills are much commended. Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drams; of the Seed of Sage toasted at the fire, eight drams, of long Pepper twelve drams, all these being brought into fine Pouder, put thereto so much Juyce of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pills, taking a dram of them every morning fasting, and so likewise at night, drinking a little pure Water after them.
Mathiolus saith, it is very profitable for all manner of pains of the Head coming of cold and Rhewmatick Humors, as also for all pains of the Joynts, whether used inwardly or outwardly, and therfore helpeth the Falling-sickness, the Lethargy, such as are dull and heavy of spirit, the Palsey, and is of much use in all Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head, and for the Diseases of the Chest or Breast. The Leavs of Sage and Nettles bruised together, and laid upon the Impostume that riseth behind the Ears, doth asswage it much: .
The Leavs sodden in Wine and laid upon the place affected with the Palsey helpeth much, if the Decoction be drunk also. Sage taken with Wormwood is used for the bloody Flux.
Pliny saith, it procureth Womens Courses, and stayeth them coming down too fast, helpeth the stinging and biting of Serpents, and killeth the Worms that breed in the Ears and in Sores.
Sage is of excellent use to help the Memory, warming and quickning the senses; and the Conserve made of the Flowers is used to the same purpose, and also for all the former recited Diseases.
The Juyce of Sage drunk with Vinegar hath been of good use in the time of Plague at all times. Gargles likewise are made with Sage, Rosemary, Honeysuckles, and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water, with some Honey and Allum put thereto, to wash sore Mouthes and Throats, Cankers, or the secret parts of man or woman as need requireth.