Medicine
highCulpeper's garden sage entry gives the botanical evidence: Jupiter claims the herb, and a decoction of leaves and branches is linked to urine, menses, wounds, ulcers, and hair darkening.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Sage
Salvia officinalis
Sage appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 12
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 39
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- sage
- Latin name
- Salvia officinalis(candidate)
- Identity note
- The word sage often means a wise person, so botanical context is essential.
Safety
moderate
Concentrated sage oil and high-dose extracts can contain thujone; use caution with seizures and pregnancy.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Concentrated sage oil and high-dose extracts can contain thujone; use caution with seizures and pregnancy.
Aliases
sagegarden sageSalvia officinalis
Sage in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Sage (Salvia officinalis) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine and identity. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Identity
lowFrazer's 'sage calculation' passage is not Salvia evidence at all; it is a common-noun match rather than botanical sage material.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1912
Chapter XIV. The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters.
Identity
mediumCulpeper's catalogue separately names greater and lesser garden sage and wild sage, supporting a cautious reading that distinguishes botanical sage from the common noun 'sage.'
Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.
Preparations and ritual uses
Decoction
highCulpeper gives a drunk decoction of sage leaves and branches for urinary, menstrual, wound, ulcer, and hair-darkening uses.
Sage Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Gospel of Buddha.
Matched as sage; medium confidence.
Astrology
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Primitive Culture, Vol. 2.
Matched as sage; medium confidence.
Folk magic
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Gospel of Buddha.
Matched as sage; medium confidence.
Preparation
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as garden sage; high confidence.
Symbolism
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: The Mathnawi, Vol. 2.
Matched as sage; medium confidence.
Sage Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"... roots of any crocus, neither your eyes nor your taste shall distinguish them from hermodactyls. ### SAGE. Our ordinary garden Sage needs no description. *Time.*] It flowers in or about July. Government and virtues. ] Jupiter claims this, and bids me tell you, it is good for the liver, and to breed blood. A decoction of the leaves and branches of Sage made and drank, saith Dioscorides, provokes urine, brings down women’s courses, helps to expel the dead child, and causes the hair to become black. It stays the bleeding of wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers. Three sp..."
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Preparationalias: garden sagehigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1912
"...ural shock of death is passed, the ghost of the ostrich pulls himself together and makes after his body. Acting on this sage calculation, the Indians pluck feathers from the breast of the bird and strew them at intervals along the track. At every bunch of feathers the ghost stops to consider, “Is this the whole of my body or only a part of it?†The doubt gives him pause, and when at last he has made up his mind fully at all the bunches, and has further wasted valuable time by the zigzag course which he invariably pursues in going from one to another, the..."
Chapter XIV. The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters.Open in Reader
Archive mentionalias: sagelow confidence
Dhammapada
Buddhist tradition (compiled)
200
"...eople for friends, have for friends the best of men. 79. He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect (Ariyas). 80. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves. 81. As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise. 82. Wise people, after they have listened to the laws, become serene, like a deep, smooth, and still lake. 83. Good people walk on whatever..."
Chapter XXVI. The Brahmana (Arhat)Open in Reader
Preparationalias: sagemedium confidence
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward Burnett Tylor
1871
"...es of superior gods to whom worship is given by the public at large. Thus, according to legend, the War-god or Military Sage was once in human life a distinguished soldier, the Mechanics’ god was a skilful workman and inventor of tools, the Swine-god was a hog-breeder who lost his pigs and died of sorrow, and the Gamblers’ god, a desperate gamester who lost his all and died of want, is represented by a hideous image called a ‘devil gambling for cash,’ and in this shape receives the prayers and offerings of confirmed gamblers, his votaries. The spirits of San..."
CHAPTER XIV. ANIMISM (continued).Open in Reader
Astrologyalias: sagemedium confidence
The Gospel of Buddha
Paul Carus
1894
"...tm.xhtml#Page_14), [26](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_26). Sakyamuni, *p.*, Śakyamuni, *skt.*, the Sākya sage; a cognomen of Buddha.—[27](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_27), [28](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_28), [33](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_33), [34](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_34), [36](7718115929995624448_35895-h-0.htm.xhtml#Page_36), [62](7718115929995624448_35895-h-1.htm.xhtml#Page_62), [63](7718115929995624448_35895-h-1.htm.xhtml#Page_63), [64](7718115929995624448_35895-..."
GLOSSARY OF NAMES AND TERMS.Open in Reader
Folk magicalias: sagemedium confidence
Books Mentioning Sage
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
The Gospel of Buddha
Paul Carus | 1894
sage
10 mentionscited
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1897
sage
6 mentions
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
garden sage
5 mentionscited
Dhammapada
Buddhist tradition (compiled) | 200
sage
3 mentionscited
Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
E.A. Wallis Budge | 1914
sage
3 mentions
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward Burnett Tylor | 1871
sage
2 mentionscited
The Secret Doctrine Index
H. P. Blavatsky | 1897
sage
2 mentions
The Mathnawi, Vol. 2
R. A. Nicholson | 1926
sage
2 mentions
Sacred Magic of Abramelin (Book 1)
Abraham of Worms | 1458
sage
2 mentions
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay | 1841
sage
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1912
sage
1 mentioncited
Modern Mythology
Charles Kingsley | 1873
sage
1 mention