There are no studies that can show that salvia is harmful to the liver. However, the medication should be taken according to the doctor’s instructions and should not be used on its own. Salvia divinorum is a medicine for activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, with a bitter taste and slightly cold nature, which belongs to the heart and liver meridians. It has the effects of activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, clearing menstruation and relieving pain, clearing the mind and removing vexation, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncles (eliminating carbuncles and swellings by cooling the blood). Clinically, it is often used in treating women’s menstrual disorders, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, as well as heartburn and insomnia, and numbness and pain in rheumatic joints. This product should be used with caution in cases of excessive menstruation without blood stasis as well as in pregnant women; Salvia miltiorrhiza should not be used with veratrum.
The use of the drug should be under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be used on its own.