Product name Sage Leaf
Botanical name Salvia officinalis
Hs Code 12119099
Origin Egypt

Popular in both Italian and British cookery sage has long greygreen leaves with a slightly furry surface Its aroma is pungent and it has a strong slightly minty musky taste Traditionally its used to flavour sausages and as a stuffing for fatty meats such as pork and goose

History
Painting from Koehlers Medicinal Plants 1887
Salvia officinalis has been used since ancient times for warding off evil snakebites increasing womens fertility and more The Romans referred to sage as the holy herb and employed it in their religious rituals Theophrastus wrote about two different sages a wild undershrub he called sphakos and a similar cultivated plant he called elelisphakos Pliny the Elder said the latter plant was called salvia by the Romans and used as a diuretic a local anesthetic for the skin a styptic and for other uses Charlemagne recommended the plant for cultivation in the early Middle Ages and during the Carolingian Empire it was cultivated in monastery gardens Walafrid Strabo described it in his poem Hortulus as having a sweet scent and being useful for many human ailmentshe went back to the Greek root for the name and called it lelifagus

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