Sage
No other plant has known so much glory over the centuries. Its Latin name, salvia, means the plant that saves. The Gauls, like other peoples of the arachnid, considered it miraculous, able to cure any ailment.
The School of Salerno during the Middle Ages dedicated to this plant the following verses "Man, why do you die after sage blooms in your garden".
It is also known by the names elelisfakos the medicinal, faskomilia, alisfakia, hamosfakia and in Cyprus, spacia.
Hippocrates and Galen used it for therapeutic purposes, while the Latins considered it a sacred plant and used it in religious ceremonies because they believed it brought longevity.
It is native to many Mediterranean countries and especially the Adriatic, S. Europe and Asia Minor. In Greece there are more than 20 species of plants of the genus Salvia as native plants. The species salvia officinalis, known as dalmatian sage (the French call it Greek tea "the de grece") is not systematically cultivated in our country, at least until now. However, it is cultivated in many countries of central and SE. Europe. The same species is also cultivated in England, France and in American countries.