p. 814 | THE USES OF SAGE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1901

THE USES OF SAGE.

SAGE should be used more than it is: it certainly would be if its true properties were known. It will produce perspiration without stimulating the system. A warm tea of sage drank freely is an excellent remedy for colds, checked perspiration, and coughs, and is a good drink in fevers. It is valuable in sore throat or quinsy, and should be taken in a strong infusion, and the throat frequently gargled with it. In severe cases of quinsy and sore throat attending scarlet fever and the like, a handful of sage simmered in fine vaseline or olive oil, and when cool, given in teaspoonful doses occasionally,—that is, three or four times a day,—acts almost as a specific. At the same time the throat and neck should be bathed on the outside with the same. In all cases of ulcerated sore throat and mouth, sage is an important article. In such cases it should be steeped in vinegar, and a little honey, alum, and borax added. Use freely as a gargle, occasionally—swallowing some of it. On taking cold, or in the first stages of fevers, drink freely of warm sage tea, go to bed, cover up warm, with perhaps a few hot bricks around you, and sweat good. Every family should keep a good supply of sage in the house.—Selected.