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General description

Latin name: salvia lavandulifolia.
Botanical family: lamiaceae.
Origin: Spain.

Sage: ‘the gift of saving’

Sage, a small shrub of the Lamiaceae family, is often cultivated in gardens as an aromatic plant, and is also used to flavour foods. Its blue, pink or lilac flowers, in bloom from May to August, are arranged in extremely beautiful inflorescent spikes Its stem has light green, velvety, oblong-shaped leaves.

Salvia, derived from the Latin ‘salvare’ means ‘to save’: a predestined virtue

Sage, which was considered by certain civilisations as a sacred plant for its purifying effects, was widely used by the apothecaries of the Middle Ages in the preparation of their remedies. The plant was cultivated on a large scale in the monastery gardens between the IXth and the XVIIIth centuries. The North American shamans used it as a decoction to treat infections and external wounds. Its name leaves no doubt about its healing properties: it means ‘the plant that saves’.