More on sage
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bunnyjadwigaStuff from Stephen Pollington's collection Leechcraft, Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing
His comments:
"Sage, saluie, salfie (salvia officinalis). The Old English name is taken from the Latin salvia. The Old English Herbarium mentions two remedies in section 103, both against itches... With onion, sage forms a stufffing for rich meats, to aid digestion. Apart from its culinary uses, an infusion of sage has been used for fevers and as a gargle for oral infections. It was used in love divination in some districts, and as a memorial to the dead. A traditional proverb runs 'He that would live for aye / Must eat sage in May' (Hatfield, G. Memory, Widsom, and Healing-- the history of domestic plant medicine, Stroud, 1999, p. 55)"
The Old English Herbarium says "103. Sage saluia. 1. For an itch of the genitals take this plant which calls 'sage', boil it in water and smear the genitals with the water. 2. Again for an itch of the bottom, take this same plant 'salfian', boil in water, and bathe the bottom with the water, it soothes the itch remarkably."
The Lacnunga Manuscript has some recipes: : "107. Against a cough, and narrowness (chest constriction?) : boil sage and fennel in sweeetened ale and sipit hot: do likewise as often as may be needful."
"33. These plants must bee for a lung-salve: bonewort and brownwort, betony and strawberry stalk, southernwood and hyssop, sage and savine and rue, agrimony and hazel, quitch, meadowwort, pellitory."
"30. As a wen-salve: take elecampane and radish, chervil and raven's foot, English turnip and fennel and sage and southernwood, and pound them together, and take a good deal of garlic, pound and wring through a cloth into purified honey; when it is thoroughly steeped, then put pepper and zeodary, gallengale and ginger and bark and laurel berries and pellitory-- a good deal of each according to its strength; and when it be mixed, the plant's juices and the honey, then boil it twice as strong as it was before; then you have a good salve agains wens and against asthma."
"15. This is the green salve: betony, rue, lovage, fennel, sage, athelfarthingwort, savine, tansy, comfrey's roots, clary, wild celery, chervil, raven's foot, mugwort, origanum, orache, cinquefoil, valerian, burdock, meadowwort, pennyroyal, pimpernel, heliotrope, bishopwort, hazel, quitch, hedge clivers, groundsel, brookmint and other mints, chickens' food, gale, hedge hops, costmary, earthnavel, a nut-bearing tree's leaves, laurel berries, cummin, oil, wax."
"63. As a holy salve..." includes sage as well.
His comments:
"Sage, saluie, salfie (salvia officinalis). The Old English name is taken from the Latin salvia. The Old English Herbarium mentions two remedies in section 103, both against itches... With onion, sage forms a stufffing for rich meats, to aid digestion. Apart from its culinary uses, an infusion of sage has been used for fevers and as a gargle for oral infections. It was used in love divination in some districts, and as a memorial to the dead. A traditional proverb runs 'He that would live for aye / Must eat sage in May' (Hatfield, G. Memory, Widsom, and Healing-- the history of domestic plant medicine, Stroud, 1999, p. 55)"
The Old English Herbarium says "103. Sage saluia. 1. For an itch of the genitals take this plant which calls 'sage', boil it in water and smear the genitals with the water. 2. Again for an itch of the bottom, take this same plant 'salfian', boil in water, and bathe the bottom with the water, it soothes the itch remarkably."
The Lacnunga Manuscript has some recipes: : "107. Against a cough, and narrowness (chest constriction?) : boil sage and fennel in sweeetened ale and sipit hot: do likewise as often as may be needful."
"33. These plants must bee for a lung-salve: bonewort and brownwort, betony and strawberry stalk, southernwood and hyssop, sage and savine and rue, agrimony and hazel, quitch, meadowwort, pellitory."
"30. As a wen-salve: take elecampane and radish, chervil and raven's foot, English turnip and fennel and sage and southernwood, and pound them together, and take a good deal of garlic, pound and wring through a cloth into purified honey; when it is thoroughly steeped, then put pepper and zeodary, gallengale and ginger and bark and laurel berries and pellitory-- a good deal of each according to its strength; and when it be mixed, the plant's juices and the honey, then boil it twice as strong as it was before; then you have a good salve agains wens and against asthma."
"15. This is the green salve: betony, rue, lovage, fennel, sage, athelfarthingwort, savine, tansy, comfrey's roots, clary, wild celery, chervil, raven's foot, mugwort, origanum, orache, cinquefoil, valerian, burdock, meadowwort, pennyroyal, pimpernel, heliotrope, bishopwort, hazel, quitch, hedge clivers, groundsel, brookmint and other mints, chickens' food, gale, hedge hops, costmary, earthnavel, a nut-bearing tree's leaves, laurel berries, cummin, oil, wax."
"63. As a holy salve..." includes sage as well.
