Sage Moth: photo, description, application

Healing properties of the plant described in the articlehumanity is known for many centuries. His medical abilities were mentioned by Galen (an ancient Roman physician). Dioscorides and Hippocrates called it "sacred grass". The ancient Egyptians were convinced that this plant prolongs life. The ancient Greeks called it "grass of immortality".

All these amazing qualities are attributed to sagewhorled. In the Middle Ages, it was so popular that it was even used day to day. His leaves were added to almost all dishes. Then it was believed that this plant improves digestion. Salvia (Salvia) from Latin literally translates as "the grass of life."

Sage varieties

Sage is the common name of a plant that includeshundreds of species and subspecies. It has bright violet-blue inflorescences, due to which it is impossible not to notice it in the field. It grows with low bushes (30-40 cm). Dark-green color, narrow and elongated leaves touch slightly roughened.

Sage Moth (photo is presented in the article),oak and meadow have many common features. Differ in the greater degree of the arrangement of flowers. For example, the sage of the oak grove is collected in dense brooms, the meadow has a rare arrangement on the stem, and in the whorled they sit in tiers like skirts.

In Russia, grow meadow, oak (wild),whorled and medicinal varieties of sage. Virtually all of them have the same properties and are used in folk medicine. However, it is believed that the most useful substances in the medicinal sage.

Places of growth

Mulled salmon grows in places open, on dry meadows, at farm buildings and near housing, along highway and railroads, along embankments, on clay cliffs and limestone slopes.

Sage greasy, as well as manyother species in the Southern and Eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Russia, where it is increasingly common in the European part, in western Siberia and the Caucasus.

Sage Moth: description

Sage moth is a semi-shrub, the genus Sage offamily. This perennial plant is 20-100 cm high. The sage root is woody, powerful. The stem is either branchy or simple, slightly pubescent. Flowers, located whorls, violet-blue or lilac-pink. Inflorescences simple, usually with one or two pairs of long branches, with 20-40-flowered false whorls. The tubular calyx is often lilac, the corolla is violet, but also white.

Seeds of elliptical form are smooth, light-brown or dark-brown in color, up to 5 mm in length. Flowering occurs in June-September. In August and September, the fruits are ripening.

Sage is a good honey plant. Bees from it actively collect both pollen and nectar. It is so strong in his nectar that the corolla tubes are often filled in 1/3 part. The yield of honey from 1 hectare reaches up to 300 kg. It turns out a transparent, beautiful amber color, with excellent taste qualities honey with sultry whorled.

Application

In the last century, the plant was one of the most popular spices. Its leaves have a strong aroma with a specific smell of coolness.

As a seasoning for meat fatty dishesuse it in the Caucasus. In Central Asia and Western Europe, dry leaves of whorled sage are used in the production of beer, for its aromatization. It is also used as a spicy aromatic seasoning for dishes from poultry and game, to the ear, to meat and cheese, and to cold meat salads.

Sage is used in cosmetology for the treatment of problem skin, as well as for strengthening and strengthening hair growth. Sage is used and as perfume perfume.

Healing properties

The wonderful medicinal properties of the whorled moth, as well as other varieties, provided the plant with the glory of a green healer.

For medicinal purposes, sage is used both externally and internally. Use it in the form of infusions, decoctions, compresses, baths and inhalations.

Funds made from sage are used in the following cases:

• with gastrointestinal, infectious and respiratory diseases (use decoctions, infusions and tinctures);
• with frequent colds, loss of strength, depression and neuroses (added to tea);
• with skin diseases, stomatitis, periodontitis, rheumatism, scrofula, etc.

Collection of sage

There are two collections: summer and autumn.

At the beginning of summer, whorled sage, like othersspecies, is most saturated with essential oils, in connection with which, the flowers and leaves of the plant, prepared at this time, are most appreciated. Collection begins at the time of the opening of the inflorescence. Choose for drying qualitative dark green leaves, which break with cuttings. And the inflorescences are collected in such a way that on the cut branches only the lower flowers bloom.

The second collection can begin in late September, when the plant after the summer heat will recover. By that time on the bushes the leaves grow again and the flowers start to blossom again.

Dry sage follows under a canopy in the open air.

Finally

There is a sage, like many other plants,their contraindications for use. You can not take funds made from it, with individual intolerance of the components that make up the body, kidney disease, amenorrhea, hypotension, breast-feeding and pregnancy.