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The Indians believed in the value of sweating in almost all illnesses and so used as a diaphoretic the sage in making a hot tea. A tea from the leaves of the sage bush was adopted from the Indians and became the standard eyewash of the United States Army in the West. One of the remedies for a headache was sage tea or a compress of sage leaves, the leaves being either crushed or boiled. There were almost as many dosages for influenza as there were herbal drugs. The favorites were hot juniper or sage tea and inhaling the fumes from a fire of sage. If one’s legs were ailing, weakening, or shaky they were bathed in a hot sage tea, then poulticed with sage leaves. To steady and strengthen mind and nerves, the Indians, as they do today, drank sage tea.
… Sage tea also was used for paralysis. Sage leaves, fresh or dried, were made into a tea for diarrhea, menstrual disorders, and swellings. It had a particularly favorable effect as a tonic after childbirth. Fresh leaves were crushed, strained, and mixed with lukewarm water for stomach distress or were chewed for flatulence or as a tea for indigestion. The powdered herb destroyed worms in children and was so accepted officially in 1840 by the incoming whites. The juice of the herb or its powder was put on moist sores which, with this procedure, were said to dry and heal quickly, as were “green wounds.”
In Latin, salvia means “to heal,” and in fact 10th century Arab physicians believed that sage’s use would contribute to immortality. Sage has been touted as a treatment for many ills, including snakebites, eye problems, infertility, excessive menstrual bleeding, arthritis pain, infections, epilepsy, intoxication, memory loss and intestinal problems. Since ancient times, wild sage also has been considered a sacred plant by Native Americans and used both medicinally and ceremonially to purify, cure and cleanse.
Whether your current moment is merry or miserable, you must let go of it if you are to move on to the next. The miserable moments are only that when we label them that way. The merry moments are only that way because we decided that they were. This morning I was reflecting on last December and the changes that have occurred since last year this time. There have been so many. For one, there were people in my life last year that are gone this year. Last year at this time, we were mourning my nephew’s tragic and untimely demise at age 32. Everyone was wishing that they’d spent more time with him and said and done things to let him know how much he was loved. This year it is my step-mother who passed in July. She lived to be 85-years old. This morning I was reflecting on how she did not spend the holidays with us last year. There were many reasons, but mainly our collective somber mood and the weather. Little did I know that we would not have another opportunity.
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” -C.S. Lewis
While there has been significant loss, at the same time there has been significant gain. I am not the same person I was last year. Last year this time there was a fear and hopelessness that has now been replaced by faith and expectation. I have new relationships, new opportunities, and a new sense of valuing life’s little moments. I am better, mainly because I chose to be better. I know from my more than a half century of living that we must seize every moment. We don’t love, laugh, and enrich the world in the past or the present, we do it ONLY in the current moment. So seize it.
“It’s not life’s big planned events that make the big difference, it is the simple, intimate, and sometimes spontaneous things we do for each other.” Barbara Talley
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