(Natural News) Sage is a flavorful herb that’s often used during Thanksgiving to season turkey and homemade stuffing.
The herb may be popular as a culinary seasoning for holiday recipes, but you also need to learn the medicinal uses of sage before SHTF. (h/t to TheSurvivalMom.com)
Sage: A versatile herb for your home garden
Sage belongs to the mint family. While there are many varieties, the one you’re probably most familiar with is the one used for cooking, Salvia officinalis.
Sage is very aromatic and using it gives your dishes an earthy, warm quality. The herb can be used fresh, dry, rubbed, and ground. (Related: 10 Ways to use comfrey, a powerful healing herb.)
While the modern use of sage usually involves savory dishes, sage has been valued for its health benefits for thousands of years.
The ancient Greeks and Chinese used varieties of sage to address different health issues. Native Americans used sage for meditation, protection and relaxation.
Common garden sage, the variety you often use for cooking, is also used for broader health purposes as recently as the late 1800s by early doctors like Physiomedicalists in the United States.
Traditionally, sage has been used to address minor discomforts like bloating and gas after eating a fatty meal to more serious health problems like typhoid fever and tuberculosis.
Sage health benefits
Sage is full of vitamins and minerals. One teaspoon (0.7 grams) of ground sage contains only two calories, 0.1 grams of fat and protein and 0.4 grams of carbs.
The same serving also contains:
- Vitamin K –10 percent of the reference daily intake (RDI)
- Iron – 1.1 percent of the RDI
- Vitamin B6 – 1.1 percent of the RDI
- Calcium – One percent of the RDI
- Manganese – One percent of the RDI
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