261. Saluia: i.e. sage; hot and dry in third degree; its foliage is suitable for medical purposes; it is best when fresh; it retains its efficacy for a year; there is a wild sort of this herb which is called eupatorium, that is, wood sage. There is a greater diuretic virtue in the wood sage than in the sage. Sage has the comforting, corroding and dissolving virtues, and this herb greatly comforts the nerves, as does castoreum. If sage be boiled in wine and given to people with paralysis or epilepsy, it will greatly comfort them. If the same herb be boiled in wine and a plaster of it be put on the part of the body which is shaking, it will help with it. If sage juice be put in a sauce or in other foods, and it be eaten by people with paralysis or epilepsy, it will greatly benefit them. If the foliage of sage be put in a bath against stranguria or dysuria, it will give relief, and it will clean the vagina. If the juice or powder of sage be put in sauces, it will increase the appetitive virtue. Item, take pellitory, sage, vinegar, and a little pepper, and eat them, and this will clean the stomach of the gross humours. If a fomentation be made of the foliage of sage, it will expel the aborted foetus. If this herb be put on the bite of a mad dog, it will help with it. If it be put on wounds, it will stop the bleeding. If this herb be boiled in wine, it will help with a chronic cough. If sage be drunk in wine, it will clean the vagina, and it will also help with pain of the penis.