Salvia officinalis salv

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General
  • 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.
Respiratory
  • Tickling cough, especially in consumption.
Skin
  • Soft, relaxed, with enfeebled circulation and cold extremities. Colliquative perspiration.
Relationship
  • Compare: Chrysanthemum 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 from touch, better from warmth; irritable and tearful. Here use 12x. Insomnia and night-sweats. For colliquative sweating and hyperaesthesia of nervous system. Material doses of tincture. Compare also with: Phelland; Tuberc; Salvia sclarea (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 amenorrhoea; tuberculosis; anaemia; undernourished conditions; splenic anaemia. 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.