The oldest known records of the healing properties of sage take us back more than 4000 years.
Ancient Egyptians mostly used it as a remedy for infertility, but could also be used in the treatment of serious diseases and epidemics like the plague.
In the Pharaonic tombs it was used as one of the main ingredients of the mixture of embalming so not the single one Egyptian Pharaoh could not move to the afterlife without these herbs.