SALVIA OFFICINALIS
Sage
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled; of less use in phthisis with night-sweats and suffocating tickling cough. Galactorrhœa. Exerts a tonic influence on the skin.
Respiratory
Tickling cough, especially in consumption.
Skin
Soft, relaxed, with enfeebled circulation and cold extremities. Colliquative perspiration .
Relationship
Compare: Chrysanhemum Leucanthemum --Ox-eye Daisy. Has specific action on sudoriparous glands. Quiets nervous system like Cypripedium . Right sided tearing pain in bones of jaw and temple. Pain in teeth and gums, worse touch, better warmth. Irritable and tearful. Here use 12x. Insomnia and night-sweats . For colliquative sweating and hyperæsthesia of nervous system. Material doses of tincture. Phelland; Tuberc; Salvia sclerata (tonic influence on nervous system; dose, teaspoonful to one pint hot water, as inhalent for sponging). Rubia tinctorum -Madder-A remedy for the spleen ( Ceanothus ). Chlorosis and amenorrhœa; tuberculosis. Anæmia; undernourished conditions; splenic anæmia. Dose, 10 drops of tincture.
Dose
Tincture, in twenty-drop doses, in a little water. The effects manifest themselves quickly two hours after taking a dose, and they persist for from two to six days.