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Bloublom Salie
Botanical
Name:
Salvia Africana-corulea
Other Names
Blue Sage, Bloublom, Wilde salie, Wild sage.
Parts Used
Leaf and Flower
Description
Small bush with bluish purple flowers growing in the high areas of the Western
Cape
Overview and Mythology.
Ancient herbal medicine used by the Koi for chest ailments and
female disorders of the uterus.
Constituents.
Not much research—volatile oils
May contain phytoestrogens
Dosage Recommendations
1 teaspoon to 1 cup of boiling water taken 3 times daily.
Applications.
Tea, Tincture, Capsules.
Medicinal
Actions
Astringent
Bitter
Diaphoretic
Emmenagogue
Fragrant
Phytoestrogenic
Stomach tonic
Tonic
Used in the
following internal illnesses
Coughs, [also Whooping
Cough], Colds and Chest ailments like Bronchitis.
Diarrhoea, Flatulence, Colic and Indigestion
Uterine - normalizes the female reproductive system.---aids sluggish menses
and slow labour.
Dried leaf is used for convulsions.
External Medicinal Use
Not used externally
Energetics.
Dry, Warm, Bitter.
Contra
indications and side effect
None known
Use During
Pregnancy And Lactation.
Avoid during pregnancy
Interactions
with Other Drugs
None known
Doctrine of
signatures
Fragrant smelling herb
growing in dry high areas.
Astrology
Influenced by Jupiter. Herb
of Sagittarius.
Chakra
2nd and 3rd.
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