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Salvia Officinalis

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Garden Sage · "The Menopause Night Sweat Sage"

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🎯 Controls excessive sweating and acts as a tonic for the skin and nervous system.

📖 Boericke writes:

Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled; of less use in phthisis with night-sweats and suffocating tickling cough. Galactorrhoea. Exerts a tonic influence on the skin.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals with soft, relaxed skin, poor circulation, and cold extremities.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Colliquative perspiration.

skin

🩺 Systems & Indications

🫁RESPIRATORY

Used for tickling coughs associated with chronic respiratory weakness.

Tickling cough, especially in consumption.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒Effects manifest two hours after taking

📝Twenty-drop doses in a little water · persist for from two to six days

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Ceanothus Americanus →Phellandrium Aquaticum →Tuberculinum →Rubia TinctorumChrysanthemum Leucanthemum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Salvia Officinalis is listed in 7 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System3 Fever2 Skin1 Female Sexual System1