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Properties and Uses: Removes phlegm from the throat and bronchia, and exerts a soothing influence upon irritated mucous surfaces by shielding them from the influence of deleterious agents, atmospheric air, etc. Use for conditions of the respiratory and digestive organs.
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Folk names: Egyptian thorn, Cape gum, Gum Arabic tree
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air
Associated Deities: Astarte, Ishtar, Diana, Osiris
Basic Powers: Clairvoyance, Protections, Psychic Powers
Uses: Burn with Sandalwood during meditation and to stimulate Psychic Powers. A sprig placed over the bed wards off evil, as well as you can carry a twig of it with you as a protective amulet. Acacia is also used in love and money spells.
Properties and Uses: Expectorant for colds and coughs. Aromatic, diuretic, helpful with vascular deficiency; Aids skin in elimination of toxins, promotes perspiration; Also treats kidney disorders a Digestive and circulatory tonic. Part Used: Root and seeds. Contraindications: Pregnancy; Diabetes.
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Folk Names: Garden Angelica, Masterwort, Archangel
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: fire
Associated Deities: Venus
Basic Powers: Protection, exorcism, Healing, visions
Uses: Grow in the garden for protection. Use in protection and exorcism incenses, burn during exorcism rituals, add to bath water to remove any spells cast against you, hexes or curses. If smoked, the leaves are said to promote visions.
Properties and Uses: Antispasmodic, aromatic, digestive, expectorant, stimulant, is good for colds and flu.
Anise promotes digestion, improves appetite, alleviates. cramps and nausea, and relieves flatulence and, especially in infants, colic.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Aniseseed, Anneys, Sweet Cumin
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air
Basic Powers: Purification and Protection
Uses: A pillow filled with Anise keeps nightmares away, the leaves can be placed around the magic circle to protect from evil spirits, the seeds mixed with a few bay leaves in the bath water make a good, general cleansing bath.
Properties and Uses: The resin, called benzoin or gum benzoin, is used as incense, a fixative in perfumes, and is added to cosmetics to prevent fats turning rancid. It is an antiseptic treatment for cracked and chapped skin, and an expectorant for severe bronchitis. As part of friar's balsam, it soothes coughs and sore throats. Benzoin is used in aromatherapy, but can cause allergies.
Remark: Styrax officinale produces storax, the fragrant resin that is burned as incense.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Siam Benzoin, Benjamin, gum benzoin
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air
Basic Powers: Purification, Intellectual, Prosperity
Uses: Use in purification incenses to clear the surrounding area. Benzoin mixed with and burned with cinnamon is good for business and attracting people to your business.
Folk Names: Black snake root, Rattle Root, Squaw Root, Actacea
Gender: Hot/Masculine
Basic Powers: Love, courage, Protection, Potency
Uses: Use in love sachets and in the bath to help with impotency. Carried, will help with courage, sprinkled around the room or in a bath, will drive away negativity and evil spirits.
Properties and Uses: A stimulant and cathartic causing bowel movements, used mostly as a laxative but also as a bitter tonic to ease digestive problems.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Hart's Thorn
Gender: Female Planet: Saturn Element: Water
Basic Powers: Protection, Exorcism, Wishes, Legal Matters
Burdock Root
Properties and Uses: Burdock is one of the best blood purifiers. It is used for chronic infection, arthritis, rheumatism, skin diseases (including psoriasis) and sciatica. It clears kidneys of excess wastes and uric acid. It is excellent for gout. Burdock has been known to reduce swelling and deposits within joints and knuckles of arthritis sufferers. Because it has digestive enzymes and bile stimulants, burdock will help eliminate the putrefying factor in the intestines.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Beggar's Button, clotburr, bardana, happy major, hurrburr, cocklebur, personata, burrseed, hardock
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Protection, Purification, Healing
Uses: Cast around the house, or any specific room to ward off negtivity.You can also carry or wear this herb for protection.
Calendula Flower
Properties and Uses: Calendula is one of the most valuable herbs in the treatment of external skin problems like slow-healing wounds, skins ulcers, inflammation or minor burns. It can be used to stop bleeding and has antibiotic properties. Internally it reduces digestive inflammation and therefore is helpful in treating ulcers. Also useful for relieving indigestion and gall bladder problems, chest ailments, flu, as an aid to induce sweating to bring down a fever, and can help normalize delayed or painful menstruation and cramps.
Properties and Uses: Leaves and flowering tops are used to treat colic or flatulence. Catnip calms the nerves, soothes digestion and lowers a fever without raising it first.It also helps nursing mothers increase the flow of milk, and can also help to calm gastic and duodenal ulcers.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Field balm, catmint, cat's sort, catrup, nip
Gender: Cold/feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Associated Deities: Bast
Basic Powers: Love, Cat Magic, animal contacts, happiness
Uses: Use in love sachets and incense, especially with rose petals. When given to your cat, it causes a psychic bond between the 2 of you, Grown near the home or hung over the doorway, catnip attracts good spirits and brings good luck.
Chamomile is used for insomnia, nervousness, weak stomachs and to stimulate appetite. It is used for head colds and allergies. Chamomile has been used extensively for stomach problems from ulcers and helps to heal ulcers after they occur. In cases of arthritis, it is helpful for inflammation. It has been found effective in healing wounds.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Ground Apple, Camomyle, Chamaimelon, Heermannchen, Manzanilla, Maythen, Whig Plant
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Water
Basic Powers: Sleep, Love, Money, Purification
Uses: Used to aid in meditation, sleep, and can be added to a bath to attract love. Gamblers sometimes wash their hands with it to ensure winnings.Sprinkle around the property to remove curses and spells, used for purification and protection.
Properties and Uses: Binds to toxins in the system and helps to eliminate them. Astringent, emollient, expectorant Coltsfoot is excellent for respiratory problems. Use it for coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, and pleurisy.. For chronic bronchitis, shortness of breath, and dry cough, try smoking the leaves. Coltsfoot can also be used for diarrhea. The crushed leaves or a decoction can be applied externally for insect bites, inflammations, general swellings, bums, leg ulcers and phlebitis.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Ass's Foot, British Tobacco, Bull's Foot, Butterbur, Coughwort, Foal's Foot
Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Visions, Love
Uses: Use in spells for Peace and Tranquility, also in Love sachets.
Properties and Uses: Superb wound healer, anti-inflammatory, astringent, demulcent, emollient, and expectorant. A decoction of the rootstock makes a good gargle and mouthwash for throat inflammations, hoarseness, and bleeding gums. Drink it to take care of most digestive and stomach problems, for intestinal difficulties, for excessive menstrual flow, and to stop spitting blood. Powdered rootstock can also be taken internally for bloody urine , diarrhea, gastro-intestinal ulcers, dysentery, and persistent coughs. Externally, use the powder and make a poultice for wounds, bruises, sores, and insect bites. The hot pulp of the rootstock makes a good external application for bronchitis, pleurisy, and for the pain and inflammation of pulled tendons. Add the rootstock to your bath water regularly for a more youthful skin.
Used to heal cuts, abrasions, burns, ulcerations, bruises, broken bones, and strained ligaments and tendons.
Good blood cleanser. Helps heal ulcers and kidney problems. Best remedy for blood in urine. Also a powerful remedy for coughs..
Avoid comfrey preparations containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Take care on deep cuts or puncture wounds not to heal top of wound before inside of wound.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Slippery Root, Black wort, boneset, healing herb, knit bone, Wallwort, Miracle herb, healing blade
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Air
Basic Powers: Protection, Safety During Travel, Money
Uses: Carried or worn, the herb protects while traveling.
Dandelion
Properties and Uses: One of the best diuretics available. It eliminates edema and dropsy without robbing the body of potassium. It is especially good for those with congestive heart failure. It is also effective with weight loss. Dandelion root is excellent for exzema and skin diseases because of its effect on the liver. It increases the flow of bile and is effective for liver and gall bladder inflammation. It nourishes the spleen. Because it is high in minerals, dandelion helps build blood and eliminates anemia.
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Folk names: Cankerwort, Lion's Tooth, Priest's Crown, Puffball, Swine Snout, Blowball, Wild Endive
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air
Associated Deities: Hecate
Basic Powers: Calling Spirits, Divination, Wishes
Uses: roast and grind the dried root to make a tea that will promote psychic powers. Place a cup of this steaming tea next to the bed to call spirits.
Properties and Uses: Fruits and flowers are used. Elder flower tea makes for an excellent diuretic, as well a assisting in feverish colds.
This plant acts as a fever reducer by both resetting the fever control mechanism within the brain and stimulating sweating. With equal parts Peppermint and Yarrow, this remedy has been used since ancient times.
Warning: Bark, root, leaves, and unripe berries toxic; said to cause cyanide poisoning, severe diarrhea. Fruits edible when cooked. Flowers not thought to be toxic; and can be eaten in pancakes and fritters
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Folk Names: Devil's eye, lady elder, Battree, Elhorn, Lady Ellhorn, hollunder, pipe tree
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: water
Associated Deities: Holda, Venus
Basic Powers: Protection, Purification, Exorcism, Prosperity
Uses: Ward off attackers of every kind when wearing, keep evil from the house by hanging over doorways, always works in releasing spells cast against you.
Eucalyptus Leaf
Properties and Uses: This herb may be used as a steam inhalation. For its antiseptic and expectorating effect in bronchitis and influenza to relieve congestion. It is also serviceable in sluggish urinary tract infections of a chronic nature.
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Folk names: Blue Gum, Stringy Bark Tree,
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Moonr Element: Water
Basic Powers: Healing, Protection
Uses:
Burn for healing vibrations, ring green candles and burn, add a few leaves to flowers sent to the afflicted, fill healing poppets/sachets with this herb.
Properties and Uses: Eyebright is valuable in eye and vision weakness. As a wash, it is used for inflammations and conjunctivitis. It has also been effective in removing mucus from the head and nasal area, making it effective for sinusitis. Can also aide in kidney stones.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: red eyebright, euphrosyne
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Air
Basic Powers: Clairvoyance, Mental Powers
Uses: When drank as a tea, it aides in memory and clearing the mind. Carrying this herb will also increase psychic powers. Cotton balls placed on the eyelids soaked in an infusion will induce magickal clairvoyance, however, this must be intended to work.
Properties and Uses: Stimulant. Ginger is used for indigestion, gas, morning sickness and nausea. A study reported in the British medical journal Lancet (March 20,1982) showed powdered ginger to be more effective than Dramamine against motion sickness. The researchers recommended that a person take two capsules of powdered gingerroot 15 minutes before boarding a boat, car or plane. They stated that ginger has no known toxic effects at normal consumption levels. Ginger root relieves general indigestion, dispels gas, eases cramping and relieves spasms of the stomach and colon. Oriental studies show that ginger increases immune response and is an excellent remedy for colds and flu. It also reduces cholesterol. Ginger is also believed to speed up the metabolism by as much as 25%.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: African Gincer
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Love,Money,Power,Success
Uses: It is believed that eating Ginger before performing spells will add extra power, especially to love spells, in which Ginger is often used.Sprinkle into pockets or onto money to attract money. You can also use it in success spells.
Properties and Uses: Antioxidant. Ginkgo dilates blood vessels, and increases circulation and blood flow in the capillaries. It is effective for macular degeneration because of increased blood flow to the eyes. It helps prevent premature memory loss..
Hops Flowers
Properties and Uses: A safe sedative for children and adults to promote sleep and control nervousness and nervous stomach problems.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Beer Flower, flores de Cerveza
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Water
Basic Powers: Healing, Sleep
Uses: Used in Healing sachets and sleep sachets.
Hyssop
Properties and Uses: As a respiratory anti-viral and anti-spasmodic for croupy coughs, bronchitis and asthma; will bring on sweating with dry skin and a fever; a relaxing nervine anxiety states.
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Folk names: Ysopo, Isopo
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Love, Protection, Purification
Uses: Hang up in the home to purge evil, sprinkle on people or objects or use in a sachet in the bath to cleanse .Sachets help to ease childbirth, protection and guard against nightmares.
Properties and Uses: Calmative. According to old herbals, jasmine flowers calm the nerves. However others suggest that the scent arouses erotic interests.
Magickal Uses:
Folk Names: Yasmin, Moonlight on the grove, Jessamin
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Jupiter Element: Earth
Associated Deities: Vishnu
Basic Powers: Love, Prosperity, Prophetic dreams
Uses: The flowers are used in love saqchets and in prosperity rituals of all kinds. Jasmine attracts spiritual love. If worn or burned, can bring wealth.If burned in the bedroom, Jasmine will produce prophetic dreams.
Diuretic, urinary antiseptic. Juniper berry is effective for bladder diseases and for bladder and urethera infections (cystitis). It has anti-inflammatory properties. It is helpful for gout and for other arthritic conditions associated with acid waste. CAUTION: Not intended for use when kidneys are severely inflamed or during pregnancy
Magickal Uses
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Protection, Love
Uses: String the berries for an attractive charm designed to attract lovers. Sometimes used in anti-theft sachets. Grow Juniper at your door step for protection.Add to love potions, and berries can be carried to increase male potency.
Properties and Uses: Kelp is a good promoter of glandular health, especially the thyroid, pituitary and adrenal glands. Kelp is also high in trace minerals. Good source of natural iodine. Supplies dozens of important nutrients for improved cardiovascular health. Used to balance the thyroid and lower blood pressure.
Due to its iodine binding ability in the thyroid, it acts as a radiation antagonist. Also an excellent mineral replacement for calcium and other important nutrients
Properties and Uses: Antispasmodic, carminative, diuretic, sedative, stimulant, tonic. Lavender is normally taken or used in the form of an oil . From the flowers by distillation with water. It is used for migraine headache, fainting, and dizziness. It also has some antiseptic properties and is useful against putrefactive bacteria in the intestines. Lavender oil also makes a stimulating, tonic embrocation. In the absence of the oil, an infusion of the leaves can be used instead; and a decoction of the leaves is a useful remedy for stomach problems, nausea and vomiting.
Used as an inhalant to relieve some headaches.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Spike, Elf Leaf
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air
Basic Powers: Protection, Love, Sleep, Purification, Happiness, Peace
Uses: Place lavender in drawers with clothing to attract love. Use in love and purification sachets. Burn or smolder for sleep.
Properties and Uses: A neural relaxant it lowers the stress response and acts as a mood elevator in depressive states; an anti-spasmodic, it blocks nerve impulses and acts as a general mild sedative; also shown to have anti-viral effects in herpes, reducing the pain and shortening the outbreak
Lemon Grass
Properties and Uses: Stimulant, aromatic. Used for treatment of some eye conditions in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Magickal Uses
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air
Basic Powers: Lust, Psychic powers, repels snakes
Uses: Plant around the home or garden to repel snakes. It is also used in some lust potions and in an infusion to aid in developing psychic powers.
Folk Names: Baino, Egyptian Lotus
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water
Basic Powers: Protection, Lock Opening
Uses: Receive protection just be inhaling the scent of the lotus. Place the root of the lotus under tongue and say"Sign, Arggis" to unlock locked doors.The seeds and pods can be used as an antidote to love spells as well as as any part of the lotus worn will bring good luck and blessings from the gods.
Marshmallow Root
Properties and Uses: Demulcent, emollient, diuretic.Soothes irritated tissue. A soothing agent to inflammations of the mouth, stomach, intestines, kidneys and bladder; also an astringent to these tissues; an excellent respiratory syrup for sore throats. Externally, use it as a poultice for irritations, burns, and wounds. An infusion of the leaves or flowers serves as a soothing gargle. A decoction of the root makes a good vaginal douche or a soothing eyewash. Use the cold extract of the root or the whole plant as a tea that is good for coughs, whooping cough, and bronchitis. For bronchial asthma, sweeten with honey and take a mouthful at a time. The tea also helps in many digestive and urinary problems and can be taken for ulcers and colitis.
Motherwort
Properties and Uses: Analgesic, diuretic, antispasmodic, tonic, nervine, astringent, expectorant. Its mild vasodilating effects are employed in menses cramps associated with a delayed flow or scanty menstruation; its nervine properties find benefit in PMS and some menopausal symptoms; used postpartum, it helps to drain the uterus and prevent infections. Also used as a general heart tonic in men and women, where it is a calmative. Useful in overactive thyroid conditions when combined with Bugleweed (Lycopus virginica) and Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis).
Properties and Uses: An aid in irregular menstruation, for lack of appetite, and weak digestion. Diuretic and Liver tonic. Used as a tea. A culinary herb for stuffing geese, duck or other fatty fish or meat. Repels flies and moths. Leaves may be used in tobaccos. Formerly used for flavoring and the clarification of beer. Constituents: volatile oil; resin; tannin; a bitter principle, absinth, which stimulates digestion. Part Used: dried flowering shoots, leaves, roots
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Folk Names: Naughty man, Old Man, Sailor's Tobacco, witch herb, Muggons, Artemis herb, Artemisia
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Air
Associated Deities: Artemis, Diana
Basic Powers: Protection, Clairvoyance
Uses: It's wonderful to burn in an oil burner while sleeping as it's properties are believed to increase prophetic dreams as well as aid in astral travel..Some people instead of burning it will add the herb in a small dream pillow or have even taken the limbs and have made wreaths out of them to hang over the bed.
Hanging mugwort or burning mugwort in the home will also repel negative energies.
It can also be used in an infusion to assist in psychic powers, it can be used in an oil form on cuts and abrasions, can be used to assist in fertility as well as can be used to help with body aches and pains.
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Mullein
Properties and Uses: A respiratory relaxant and bronchial dilator, it expands the airways allowing freer breathing; it will arrest paroxysmal uncontrollable coughs finding relief in whooping cough, bronchitis and asthma. The oil may be used in earaches as an anti-bacterial and painkiller. Part Used: Flower and leaf.
The honey-scented flowers flavor liqueurs and yield skin-softening mucilage. The expectorant, soothing, and spasm-sedating properties of the leaf and flowers are used to treat raspy coughs and are added to herbal tobacco. Research has confirmed antit-ubercular activity in plant extracts. Leaf smoke was used by Native Americans to revive the unconscious. The flowers reduce eczema inflammation and help heal wounds; the seed oil soothes chapped skin; the root is diuretic; and a homeopathic leaf tincture treats migraine and earache.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: candlewick plant, Aaron's rod, velvet plant, flannel plant, Hag's taper
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Protection, Courage, Divination, Exorcism
Uses: A pillow filled with Mullein keeps nightmares away, carry when hiking or out in the wilderness to keep wild animals away. Sprinkle in your shoe for courage..
Properties and Uses: Leaf contains silicic acid, formic acid, mineral salts, phytosterin, vitamin A, vitamin C, enzymes, wax, lecithin, carbonic acid, ammonia, mucilage, phosphates, iron, and chlorophyll. Root contains tannin.Leaf is blood building, astringent, stimulant, tonic, anti-asthmatic, anti-bronchial, diuretic, and vaso-constricting. Root is astringent.Nettle is traditionally used to relieve the discomfort and problems associated with asthma caused by allergies. It is effective for childhood eczema. It may be helpful for those experiencing itchy eyes caused by allergies. Nettle is a good source of nutrition, especially chlorophyll, and is an excellent supplement during pregnancy
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Stinging Nettle
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Mars Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Purification, Intellectual, Prosperity
Uses: Carry Nettle in a sachet to remove a curse. Sprinkle Nettle around the house to keep evil out, throw onto a fire to avert danger, carry with yarrow to stop fear, and wear to keep negativity away. Place in a pot near a sick person's bed for quick recovery, may also be used in purification baths.
Folk Names: Pucha-Pot
Gender: Hot/Female Planet: Saturn/Sun Element: Earth
Basic Powers: Passion, Love, lust, Fertility
Uses: Attracts women and Men, wear it alone or with other herbs. Usually used in oil form, It's also burned in clairvoyance and divination incenses..
Plantain Leaves
Properties and Uses: Being high in chlorophyll this plant is an excellent wound healer, for abrasion and insect bites, internally it is healing to GI tract inflammations from stomach ulcers to dysentery and septicemia conditions of the blood
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Cuckoo's Bread, Patrick's Dock, Ripple Grass, Snakeweed, Snakebite
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Earth
Basic Powers: Bind the plantain with red wool to the head to cure headaches, and place beneath the feet to remove wearin
Raspberry Leaves
Properties and Uses: Raspberry Leaf Tea will stimulate the kidneys, relax uterine muscles, , is know for it's astringent properties.
Properties and Uses: Contains a high mineral content and has mild sedative effects on children; a good maintenance and nutritive herb in hepatitis and mononucleosis or any chronic disease state.
Properties and Uses: Coloring matter, nervine, astringent. Much employed for making rose water.
Magickal Uses:
Folk Names: Naughty man, Old Man, Sailor's Tobacco, witch herb, Muggons, Artemis herb, Artemisia
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Associated Deities: Venus, Hulda, Demeter, Isis, Eros, Adonis, cupid
Basic Powers: Love, fertility, Psychic powers, Luck, protection
Uses: Burn the petals in your bedroom before going to sleep for a wonderfully refreshing nights sleep, and the petals to healing sachets and incense as well as dream pillows, scatter rose petals in your room on your honey moon or anniversary night, wear roses when performing love spells, wash your hands with rose water before beginning any love ritual or spell, place a single rose on your altar when performing love work, drink a tea with rosebuds in it before sleep for prophetic dreams, rose petals and hips are used in love spells, rose petals around the house calm personal stress and household stress, roses planted in the garden attract fairies.
Properties and Uses: Rosa rugosa An astringent affecting primarily the kidneys, bladder and colon, controlling diarrhea and reducing urine excretion and intestinal leakage. Helps to stabilize the kidneys.
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Rosemary
Properties and Uses: Natural stimulating formula which helps promote liver function, the production of bile and aids in proper digestion, helping ease conditions like flatulence. It is also an antispasmodic which makes it useful for nervous conditions such as stress-related headaches. Powerful anti-oxidant and cardiac tonic. Helps to prevent damage to the heart from free radicals and other toxins. Helps regulate the blood pressure. Good for migraine headaches. Aromatic, stimulant . astringent, anti-spasmodic
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: elf leaf, Compass weed, Dew of the Sea, Sea Dew
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Protection, Love, purification, exorcism, sleep, healing
Uses: A dd to all purification baths sachets, love incenses, exorcism mixtures, and protection incenses. When burned it emits powerful cleansing and purifying vibrations and aides in ridding of negativity. Place under the pillow for a good nights sleep, or place under the bed to protect from harm while sleeping. Hang Rosemary on your porch, doorposts and over your door to ward of thieves. Light Rosemary on charcoal and inhale it's smoke to receive knowledge or the answers to a question. Rosemary is also grown to attract elves and is generally used as a substitute for frankincense.
Properties and Uses: Can be used in ulcer formulas to decrease hypersecretions in stomach; it is antiseptic and diaphoretic to increase sweating in fevers and flues; will decrease lactation, not recommended for nursing mothers. Stimulates gastrointestinal tract, also stimulates central nervous system.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Garden Sage
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Earth
Basic Powers: Protection, Longevity, Wishes, Wisdom, Immortality
Uses: Carried to promote wisdom, burned to clear negativity and bring protection, write on a sage leaf and put under your pillow to bring a wish to fruition, sleep with it 3 nights if you do not dream of the wish materializing, then bury the sage in the ground so you do not come to harm.
Properties and Uses: Astringent, disinfectant, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant. The medicinal properties of sandalwood reside in the oil, which can be pressed from the wood or extracted with alcohol or water. The antiseptic and disinfectant properties of this oil are similar to those of cubeb oil. The oil can also be used for bronchitis and for inflammation in mucous tissue. A decoction of the wood may be helpful for indigestion and fever and externally for skin problems, especially those of bacterial origin.
Magickal Uses
Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Love
Uses: Red Sandalwood is burned to bring love. It is sprinkled in areas that need to be cleansed of negativity.
Scullcap(Skullcap)
Properties and Uses: Antispasmodic, nervine, central nervous system relaxant and restorative. Scullcap is an excellent nervine for most nervous system malfunctions. It is an excellent aid for premenstrual tension. It has been used as an aid to wean people from excessive use of Valium and from barbiturate addictions. Scullcap is soothing to the nerves, relaxing and sleep inducing. It is used for neurological and neuromotor conditions, including epilepsy, helping to reduce the severity and frequency of symptoms
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Helmet flower, Hoodwort, Madweed, Quaker Bonnet
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water
Basic Powers: Love, Fidelity Peace
Uses: Wear scullcap to protect your husband from charms of other women, use in spells for relaxation and peace.
Senna Leaves
Properties and Uses: Stimulant laxative. This effective laxative should be combined with ginger or fennel to prevent cramping
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Locust Plant, Wild Senna
Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air
Basic Powers: Love
Uses: Use in Love Spells.
Slippery Elm
Properties and Uses: Slippery Elm is demulcent and emollient. Useful internally for diarrhea, coughs due to colds, etc. Externally as a poultice for skin irritation and in rectal and vaginal suppositories.
Demulcent, emollient, nutritive. It is used to soothe and allay irritation of mucous membranes. It stops diarrhea caused by irritation of the gastro intestinal lining and is especially good for soothing sore throats and irritated respiratory passages
Magickal Uses:
Folk Names: Red Elm, Indian Elm, Moose Elm
Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Air
Basic Powers: Halts Gossip
Uses: Burn slippery elm and while burning, throw a knotted yellow cord, thread or ribbon in the fire. All gossip against you will stop.
Properties and Uses: Being high in bioflavinoids, it contains the highly active ingredient hypericin. It can be used externally and internally to increase capillary integrity in problems with varicosities such as hemorrhoids, varicose veins and easy bleeders; internally acts as an anti-depressant, and a general remedy for the blues; contains anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties, good in ear infections, externally helps in nerve damage and inflammations along the spinal cord.
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Folk Names: Herba Jon, John's Wort, fuga daemonum, goat weed, tripton weed, klamath weed
Gender: Hot/Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Protection, Exorcism
Uses: Burn to banish and exorcise spirits, wear the herb to make you invincible in wars and battles of all kinds and to strengthen your own will, hang around the neck to ward off fever. At one time, this herb was held to the mouths of witches to make them confess.
Properties and Uses: It is said that Thyme is to the trachea and bronchitis what peppermint is to the intestines and stomach. It contains an aromatic oil called thymol that is responsible for many of its excellent properties. Anthelmintic, antispasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant, sedative, anti-fungal, anti-septic.
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Folk Names: Garden Thyme, Common Thyme
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Clairvoyance, purification, Courage, Health, Healing
Properties and Uses: Nervine, sleep aid. Valerian is a strong sedative and one of the best nerve tonics. It is an excellent remedy for people under emotional stress or pain. In a recent study done on chronic sleeplessness, valerian improved the quality of sleep in 89% of the participants. Of those people, 44% described their night's rest as perfect sleep
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: All heal, Phu, Bloody butcher, Cat's Valerian, Garden Heliotrope, Sete Wale, Vandal Root
Gender: Cold Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Protection, Love, purification, sleep,
Uses: Not a very pleasant fragrance, the powder is used in sachets for protection, hung in the home to ward off lightening, and placed in pillows to fall asleep. Introduce the herb in rooms where there are people quarreling, all will soon be calmed. This powder is also sometimes used as Graveyard dust.
In Europe, plant tea used for obstructions of liver and spleen, headaches, and nervous disorders. Leaves considered diuretic, milk inducing; analgesic. Used experimentally in China to control malaria symptoms, kill blood flukes (parasites) and germs, stop pain and inflammation. Chinese studies suggest that herbage of this plant is synergistic with a prostaglandin (E2). Bitter, hepatic, colds and fever inflammation. Nervine, sedative, depression, tension and stress tonic.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Juno's tears, herb of grace, pigeon's grass, holy herb, herb of the cross, verbena, van-van
Gender: Cold/Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water
Basic Powers: Love, Purification, Protection
Uses: Use in Magickal cleansing baths, incenses, and purification. Hang on bed to keep you free of nightmares. Used in many love and protection sachets. Burning alone or mixed with frankincense, this makes a wonderful purification incense.
Properties and Uses: Aromatic, stimulant, tonic. Most of this uses for the aromatic roots of Vetiver are non-medical, but a tea made from the roots can be taken as a generally stimulating tonic drink.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Vetivert, Khus-Khus, Moras
Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Earth
Basic Powers: Love, Hex-breaking, Luck, Anti-theft, Money
Uses: Burn to overcome evil spells, use in love powders and sachets, use in the bathwater to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex, place in the cash register to increase business, use in money spells, carry to attract luck.
Properties and Uses: All parts contain active ingredients. Decocted flowers make an eyewash, and leaf tea treats varicose veins. The flower syrup is antiseptic and a mild laxative, and with the leaves treats coughs, headaches, and insomnia. The root treats bronchitis. The leaves are a folk remedy for breast and lung cancer. The aerial parts of Heartsease are cleansing and are a circulation and immune system stimulant, used for chronic skin complaints..
Properties and Uses: As a traditional remedy, used internally and as a liniment, it is applied to varicose veins and hemorrhoids and any swollen engorged tissues; may help control diarrhea and ease dysentery. It is an old-time remedy that still is in popular use. The Indians used it in the form of a poultice, in external irritations, bruises, etc. The tea may be advantageously used as a mouth wash for conditions of irritation and as a vaginal douche for simple vaginitis.
Magickal Uses
Folk Names: Spotted Alder, Winterbloom, Snapping hazelnut
Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire
Basic Powers: Protection, Chastity
Uses: Used in fashioning divining rods and worn to mend a broken heart.
