Description

Sage is the silvery-gray dried leaves of an evergreen shrub of the mint family. Sage is native to the Mediterranean area.

Did You Know: In ancient Rome, sage was considered to have substantial healing properties, particularly helpful in the digestion of the ubiquitous fatty meats of the time, and was deemed a part of the official Roman pharmocopeia. At one time, the French produced bountiful crops of sage which they used as tea. The Chinese became enamored of French sage tea, trading four pounds of Chinese tea to one pound of sage tea. In 812 AD, sage was one of the plants deemed so important that Charlemagne ordered it planted on German imperial farms, no doubt due to the lucrative trade business as well as for its medicinal popularit