Greek Wild Sage | Salvia Fruticosa | Maya Ethnobotanicals

Greek Wild Sage (Salvia Fruticosa) – Whole Leaves from Greece

Name: Greek Wild Sage | Salvia Fruticosa | Maya Ethnobotanicals
SKU: 3936
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Botanical name: Salvia Fruticosa
Common name: Greek Wild Sage
Plant part: Leaves
Form: Whole
Country: Greece

SKU: 3936 Categories: Herbs, Common name, Well - being Tags: Tonic, Brain, Incense, Europe

Beschreibung

More about Greek Wild Sage (Salvia Fruticosa)

Greek Wild Sage is a very special and fragrant type of sage that grows wild in the Greek mountains. The locals use it for its fragrance but also in culinary and as tea. Apart from this they subscribe medicinal uses and have used it as such for thousands of years since the ancient Greek times. Its oldest depictions are from 1400 before christ.

Sage has been considered a sacred herb since the times of antiquity, a salvaging and saving herb. Its very name, Salvia, comes from the Latin “salvare”, to salvage, save. Different Sage species have been used around the world for thousands of years. Still today, the North American Indians use it to fumigate their sweat huts, to purify and facilitate the communication with divine powers.

It’s said to remove negative energies and is associated with the idea of wisdom. In the Medieval times, sage was considered a ‘panacea’, a ‘cure-all’, and was cultivated in monastery gardens. Sage also plays a part in many Muslim rituals, at weddings and births as an incense. It has a fragrance similar that of White Sage (Salvia apiana). Loose incense is generally burnt on charcoal tablets.

The fragrance, burned in an aroma lamp alerts the senses, is tonic to the mind, sharpens the memory and is useful to have around in cases of mental fatigue, exhaustion and depression. More an intellectual fragrance, it aids in times of emotional upheavals and crises, brings clarity of mind and strength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_fruticosa

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