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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

South american sage in English is the name of a plant defined with Salvia coccinea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Horminum coccineum Moench (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Vilm. Blumengärtner, ed. 3 (1895)
· Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones (1831)
· De Salvia. (1777)
· Collectanea (1789)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1782)
· Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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