Traditional application of Sage (Salvia) in conductive education and its potential evidence- based background

Tímea Vissi; Romána Zelkó; Renáta Földesi; Ibolya Túri

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08114

Traditional application of Sage (Salvia) in conductive education and its potential evidence- based background

Heliyon. 2021 Oct 4;7(10):e08114. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08114. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Tímea Vissi^{1

2}, Romána Zelkó³, Renáta Földesi¹, Ibolya Túri¹

Affiliations

¹ Semmelweis University, Pető András Faculty Institute for Conductive Education, 1125 Budapest, Kútvölgyi út 8, Hungary.
² Doctoral School of Education, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 1075 Budapest, Kazinczy u. 23- 27, Hungary.
³ University Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, 1092 Budapest, Hőgyes E. u. 7- 9, Hungary.

Abstract

Conductive education originated in Hungary in the late 1940s as a unique form of education and rehabilitation for children with neurological motor disorder. The basic idea of András Pető's unique system (conductive pedagogical system) was that our nervous system, despite being damaged, has reserved the possibility of building new connections, which can be mobilised by the proper control of the learning-teaching process. Based on the accessible documents, the paper provides a comprehensive overview of the sageuse implemented by András Pető, the internationally acknowledged founder of conductive education. Besides the traditional application of sage in conductive education it also reviews the known phytotherapeutic effects and recent clinical trials. The available clinical trials confirm the successful traditional application of sage extracts in conductive education and provide a promising starting point for evidence-based studies regarding its application in conductive education.

Keywords: Clinical trials; Conductive education system; Phytotherapeutic effect; Retrospective sage– use; Sage (Salvia officinalis L.).