Salviae folium

Leaves of the true sage. Quality is laid down in the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.).

HMPC monograph: Traditional-use: traditional herbal medicinal product for oral and cutaneous use

ESCOP monograph: positive for dyspeptic complaints. Heartburn, flatulence, hyperhidrosis, hot flushes; supportive for hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia; externally for inflammation and infections of the oral mucosa, gums and pharyngeal mucosa.
Commission E-monograph: internally for dyspeptic complaints, increased sweat secretion; externally for inflammation of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa.

Empirical medicine: Herpes simplex

As a spice for meat, soups, stews and vegetable dishes, also for pickling cucumbers to prolong their shelf life.

Essential oils: thujone, 1,8-cineole and camphor; the oil of the three-lobed sage contains mainly 1,8-cineole.

Long-term ingestion of ethanolic extracts or pure sage essential oil may cause epileptiform convulsions.

1. https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/salbei.php
2. Wenigmann M. (2017) Phytotherapy medicinal drugs, phytopharmaceuticals, application. Urban & Fischer, pp. 187-188.
3. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/herbal-monograph/final-european-union-herbal-monograph-salvia-officinalis-l-folium-revision-1_en.pdf