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Clary Sage ~ Salvia Officinalis

Herbal Magic and Essential Oils

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Clary sage blooms from May to September, spirally pale blue, purple or pink flowers on top of each spike. The heart shaped green leaves have soft and fuzzy crinkled surfaces and surround the flowers. It is biennial or perennial. Is a member of the Lamiaceae family and grows to 3 to 5 feet tall.

Technical name is Salvia Sclarea, it yields a colourless or pale yellowish green oil by steam distillation. It has a sweet , fresh and clean, scent. With warm herblike nutty, balsamic undertone.

Clary Sage - Salvia Officinalis

It is native to Southern France, Italy, Syria. Now it is worldwide, Mediterranean, Central Europe, England, Morocco, Russia and the United States. The best oils come from England, France and Morocco.

Beauty Benefits

It promotes healthy skin cell growth, helps ward off wrinkles and gives skin a healthy, youthful look. It helps control oily skin and hair. It helps control acne and seborrhoea. It also helps control dandruff, dry skin and hair.
If used as a scalp massage, it can encourage hair growth and lessen hair loss.

Emotional Effects

The oil helps balance extreme emotion, thus bringing emotional balance. It helps lift depression and sadness. It serves as a nervous system tonic, in turn easing fear and nervousness. It brings men and women awareness to their feminine qualities. It helps stimulate mental activity, concentration, without over doing it. Brings growth to creativity and intuitive powers. Some say they have very vivid dreams using the oil.
It helps for personal challenges and change, while under external stress and extreme pressure.
In midlife crisis it can bring balance, inspiration, and influence. In stressful times, it can help deep seated tension, slow a racing mind and calm the nerves.
By bringing inner peace, it reduces disabling effects of stress and related disorders.
It reduces, irritability, anxiety, panicky feelings, and overwhelmed nerves.
It can bring a feeling of euphoria. Some use the oil as an aphrodisiac.
European doctors and psychotherapists have with success used it for treatment in frigidity and impotency.

Health Aid

Can help the following,
Asthma
Depression
Digestive problems
Exhaustion
Muscle Cramps and spasms
PMS Relief
Respiratory problems

WARNINGS: do not use during pregnancy. Or at any time before or while driving as it is a sedative.

All information provided here is for information purposes only, you should consult a medical doctor if you have any health queries or problems.

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