Buckthorn
Spiritual Energies: Used for protection, wishes and legal matters. Protects a home if placed near doors and windows. Buthorn is used to bring good luck to legal matters. Ruled by Saturn, Buckthorn is a purifying herb and helps with domestic matters. Holistic Properties: A serious real-deal laxative that gets rid of waste lickidy-split.
Burdock:
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Venus, Burdock is used for protection and healing. Cast around the house to keep away negative energy. Add to protection incenses and sachets. Holistic Properties: Burdock has both antifungal and antibiotic properties. It has been used to help alleviate blood disorders and restore liver and gallbladder function. It is said to help strengthen the immune system has been used in treating respiratory infections. It also helps to clear acne, boils, poison ivy and poison oak.
Calendula:
Spiritual Energies: Used for psychic abilities, prophetic dreams, protection and legal matters. In incense it can be used for divination and the consecration of divination tools. In tea it is used to enhance psychic abilities, intuition, and meditation. It can also be used in love magick. Add to bath water to help win the admiration of everyone you meet. Holistic Properties: Calendula is an excellent herb to help in the treatment of skin disorders. Use a calendula tea to wash over cuts and sores. As a tea, it helps soothe digestion problems. Calendula is also said to have anti-fungal and anti-viral properties.
Catnip:
Spiritual Energies: Add to simmering potpourris to promote peace and happiness. Use in love sachets, especially with rose petals. Feed to your cat for an entertaining show. Holistic Properties: The tea helps to break a fever, soothe an upset stomach and digestive system. Drink catnip tea to help ease tension from nicotine and alcohol withdraw symptoms. It also eases anxiety, calms crying, relieves PMS and helps with restful sleep.
Chamomile:
Spiritual Energies: Used to love, meditation, and prosperity. Add to incenses to bring on restful states for meditation and opening the third eye for psychic powers. Use in prosperity charm bags to draw in money. Chamomile brings the power of the sun to magick work, and can be used in love potions, money spells, and can be sprinkled around the house for protection. Holistic Properties: Chamomile tea has a soothing effect, which is an excellent aid for restful sleep and sore menstruation cramps. It also calms a nervous stomach and cures insomnia and anxiety. When used topically, it soothes skin. Add to an oil to help soothe aches, sore muscles and bruises.
Cinquefoil
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Jupiter, cinquefoil can be used for wealth, protection, and prophetic dreams. The five points are said to represent love, money, health, power and wisdom- carrying cinquefoil is said to grant these things. Cinquefoil also draws in energies of eloquence, favors granted, and the ability to dream prophetically. It is believed that carrying cinquefoil will make you feel a deep connection with nature. It has a reputation for being a very magickal herb in Medieval folklore. Holistic Properties: Cinquefoil can be used as a gargle, although it has a bitter taste. Topically it makes an excellent astringent for the skin.
Cleaver's Herb:
Spiritual Energies: Cleaver's Herb is associated with the element of water and Venus. Also known as bedstraw, it is used in love spells. Holistic Properties: Cleaver's Herb tea cleanses the skin when topically applied. It is also a diuretic tea and a lymph gland cleanser (which is important for immunity). It can be used as a hair rinse.
Damiana Leaf
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Mars, Damiana has energies used for love, lust, and visions. Holistic Properties: A natural aphrodisiac, damiana is said to helps both men and women in reproductive matters. For men, it helps fight impotence and sterility. For women, it helps fight infertility, balances hormones, assists in healthy menstruation cycles, and helps ease side effects of menopause. Damiana is also said to be a stimulating nervine tonic which helps to treat depression.
Dandelion Leaf
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Jupiter, it is used for divination and psychic abilities. Scatter around purple candles, or burn with peppermint oil to enhance intuition. Holistic Properties: Dandelion leaf contains iron, potassium, beta-carotene and vitamin C. It is a great cleansing herb, and in teas can be used as a diuretic and mild laxative. It helps to promote liver and gallbladder function, and can stabilize blood sugar. It is a diuretic that also cleanses the kidneys.
Eucalpytus:
Spiritual Energies: Used for healing, protection and purification. Use in healing or protective sachets, potions, simmering potpourris, and incense blends. Put a small amount in a bath to help energize the mind and heal the body. Holistic Properties: Although not recommended for internal use, its fragrance can help clear congestion.
Galangal:
Spiritual Energies: Use for protection, lust, health, money, and psychic powers. Galangal has been used for a variety of magickal needs. If it is carried it is said to bring good luck, good health, and aid in psychic development. It is sprinkled around the house to promote lust. It is excellent in money sachets and bottles, and said to give extra power to prosperity spells.
Ginger Powder:
Spiritual Energies: Used for love, lust, money, and courage. Put in love and lust sachets, spell bottles, and potions. In simmering potpourri and incense it promotes courage, confidence, abundance and magickal energy. Holistic Properties: Ginger warms the body, which promotes healing and circulation. Add to tea to aid in healing from the cold or flu. Ginger also calms a nauseous stomach, and works well in capsules or in tea if to calm a nervous stomach or travel sickness.
Ginkgo Leaf
Holistic Properties: Ginkgo is said to help improve mood, stimulate brain function, and have strong antioxidant qualities. It can help reduce stress and anxiety, and it has also been used in treatment for ADHD, memory loss, respiratory disease, and disorders related to poor circulation. It is excellent to add to teas when trying to combat allergies and asthma. Drinking a cup of ginkgo tea a day will keep you youthful, fit, and full of awareness.
Honeysuckle
Spiritual Energies: Used for healing, money, protection, psychic awareness and spirituality. The flowers are said to attract money and excellent for prosperity spells. Place in a vase in the home or around green candles to attract money. Place around a purple candle or in a purple sachet to strengthen psychic abilities. Ruled by Jupiter, honeysuckle also enhances spirituality.
Jasmine
Spiritual Energies: Used for love, spirituality, psychic abilities, peace, dreams, gardening, and astral projection. When used in love spells, it attracts spiritual love. Surround Jasmine around a red candle for love spells, or place in love spell bottles and sachets. It is said that burning jasmine before bed can bring prophetic dreams.
Kava Kava
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Saturn, Kava Kava is used for visions, protection, and luck. Sprinkle around an area or burn for protection. Drinking Kava Kava is said to enhance psychic abilities. Holistic Properties: Kava Kava is a mild sedative that creates a tranquil feeling without loss of concentration. It relieves stress, tension and anxiety. It can also assist in alleviating insomnia, PMS, and feelings of depression. It is also said to have mild aphrodisiac qualities.
Lavender:
Spiritual Intent: Ruled by Mercury, lavender is used for love, longevity, happiness, and protection. Use in purification incense, soak in a lavender bath for good health, or use in sachets to attract love. Holistic Properties: Lavender is soothing and calming herb that can be used to assist in alleviating headaches, sleeping problems, stress and anxiety. In studies, lavender has shown to lower blood pressure and promote antibacterial activity. In baths, it promotes relaxation and relief from headaches and joint diseases.
Lemon Balm
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by the moon, it is used to bring in energies of love, success and healing. It can be used in a love charm to bring love and romance into your life. Holistic Properties: When ill, lemon balm tea helps you “sweat out” toxins and bacteria in the body. Iced lemon balm tea relieves tension and aids in respiratory function. It can also help in digestion and relieving nervousness. The fragrance is said to lift spirits and ease tension.
Marshmallow Root
Holistic Properties: Marshmallow root makes a wonderful tea that soothes sore throats and coughs, upset stomachs, colitis, and urinary tract infections. It contains a vitamin A, which helps to boost healing abilities.
Mugwort
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Venus, Mugwort is used for psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, love, healing, and astral projection. A tea or pillow of it helps with psychic visions and reams, and helps one to contact the astral realm. It can be used to help with scrying, and as an incense can cleanse magick mirrors and crystal balls. Carry mugwort to increase lust and fertility. Holistic Properties: Mugwort has been used in treating colds and can be used in a bath soak to relieve cold and flu symptoms. As a tonic and tea, mugwort can be used to help regulate periods and any severe pain that comes with them.
Mullein
Spiritual Energies: Mullein is used as a protective herb and is worn in safety amulets. It is associated with the element of fire and can be burned in incense to bring the magickal energies of fire to you. Carry to instill courage and line doors and windows in your home for a protective barrier. Holistic Properties: Mullein is an excellent addition to a tea for relieving respiratory problems. Mullein tea is also a great hair rinse. Off the Record: People come in and buy this stuff by the pound to smoke?!
Patchouli
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Saturn, it is used for love, lust, fertility, and prosperity. It can be used to attract people and promote lust. Use in incenses, simmering potpourris, green sachets, or scattered around green candles to bring in energies of abundance and wealth. Holistic Properties: In Asia, the fragrance of patchouli is said to be a stimulant and anti-depressant.
Pau D’Arco
Holistic Properties: Pau D’Arco has been used to help assist in the treatment of infections, candida, yeast infections, liver disease, and cancer. It has many anti-bacterial and anti-viral qualities. It has iron in it, which helps to build red blood cells. It is an excellent candida cleanser and helps to fortify immunity. It also clears mucous infections, which makes it a great herb to have on hand during colds and flus.
Peppermint Leaves or Peppermint Powder
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Mercury, peppermint is used for purification, sleep, healing, love, and psychic abilities. Use in a dream pillow to help bring on peaceful sleep and dreams. Use in a tea or a small amount in a bath soak for healing. Scatter around red candles to bring in energies of love. Holistic Properties: Peppermint helps soothe the stomach and intestines, therefore is excellent in tea to help fight indigestion. Peppermint tea is said to help ward off colds and flu, soothe sore thoats, and ease stomach aches. The fragrance of peppermint is said to help ease headaches and anxiety. The herb also helps to freshen breath.
Red Raspberry Leaf
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Venus, raspberry leaf is used to bring in energies of protection and love. The leaves are carried by pregnant women to alleviate pregnancy and childbirth pains. Holistic Properties: Red raspberry can be used to help with menstrual irregularities, nausea, and female complaints. Although only mild dosage is recommended during pregnancy, red raspberry leaf can help with morning sickness, lactation, and childbirth. It can help to promote tissue healing and healthy skin as well.
Red Sandalwood
Spiritual Energies: Used for spirituality, healing, protection, purification, and astral projection. Its bold red color has the glow of creativity, and as an incense it raises a highly spiritual vibration. Burn alone, or add to a spiritual incense blend.
Rose Petals & Buds
Spiritual Energies: Used for love, luck, protection, and psychic powers. Burn in love incense or place in a love sachet. Wonderful in a loving bath soak and for scattering to draw in energies of love. In the home, rose brings high spiritual vibrations, love, and calmness.
Rosehips
Spiritual Energies: Rosehips are used to bring in energies of love and health. Put into a red sachet or carry to attract love to your life. Holistic Properties: Rosehips tea has an incredible number of nutrients that help fight aging, assist the immune system and help general well-being. It is an excellent tonic for energy and helps to fight illness. They fight infection, help digestion and help keep your skin hydrated. It has an incredible amount of vitamin C in it and can help to shorten the duration of a cold. New studies suggest it may help fight wrinkles.
Rosemary:
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by the sun, rosemary is used for healing, love, lust, purification, energy, creativity and concentration. Add to purification bath soaks, love sachets, and protection incenses. When hung up, it is said to ward off thieves. Drink rosemary tea before an exam since it promotes powerful mind function. Rosemary stimulates creativity, and is an one-herb incense for protection, healing, purification, exorcism, and to induce sleep. Holistic Properties: Rosemary helps to ease nervousness, stimulate memory, and soothe aches and pains. When taken as a warm tea, it helps ease headaches and nervousness It is also a circulatory stimulant and aids in warming the body.
Scullcap
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Saturn, Scullcap is used for love, fidelity, and peace. Carry with you to bring a feeling of relaxation and peace. It is often an herb used in marriage and hand fasting ceremonies. Holistic Properties: Scullcap is a natural sedative which assists in alleviating insomnia and nerves. It has also been used help with drug or alcohol withdraw, relieve headaches, insomnia and menstrual cramps.
Slippery Elm
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Saturn, Slippery Elm is used to stop gossip. According to Scott Cunningham you can “Burn slippery elm and throw into the fire a knotted yellow cord or thread. Any gossip against you will stop.” Holistic Properties: Slippery Elm is very helpful in treating diarrhea, colon disorders, sore throats, and intestinal ulcers. It is great in a tea for soothing sore throats and calming coughs. It is also helpful in relieving heart burn and ulcers.
Thyme
Spiritual Energies: Thyme thyme is used for purification, healing, psychic abilities, love, courage, energy, health, and clairvoyance. Thyme in a dream pillow eases nightmares and is said to bring restful sleep. It is is burned or simmered to attract good health, and can be put into sachets for relieving depressing and healing. As an incense, thyme is said to have protective properties. It is also to assist in seeing Otherworldly creatures, such as faeries. Carry or add in incense for clairvoyant rituals, or to purify magickal space. Holistic Properties: As a tea, thyme is used to help digestive complaints and respiratory issues. It is also suggested that thyme tea is helpful for urinary health, relieving menstrual cramps, and relieving headaches. Thyme also has antiseptic properties, and is often an ingredient in toothpastes and mouthwashes. In essential oil form, thyme can be applied to the skin to soothe and relax, as well as help alleviate coughing.
Uva Ursi
Spiritual Energies: Add to sachets to increase psychic abilities. This was a religious herb to Native Americans, who included it in Shamanic smoking mixtures to assist in skills of divination and prophecy. Holistic Properties: Uva Ursi is a diuretic which can help to balance the pH of urine and work as a tonic in the kidneys and bladder. It is often used to help treat urinary tract infections.
Vervain
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Venus, Vervain is used for love, purification, healing, money and protection. It is said to bring love a protection to those who carry it. It is used in ritual baths or scattered to bring peace. It can be added to personal safety amulets and to attract wealth. Carry in a red sachet to bring love into your life, or in a green sachet to bring prosperity into your life. It is an herb of poets, bards, and singers, and has energies of inspiration. Holistic Properties: Vervain has aphrodisiac properties. It can also calm irritability. Vervain tea can also be used as a mouthwash, and is excellent for soothing fevers and easing phlegm-based coughing.
White Oak Bark
Spiritual Energies: Used for protection, health, money, healing, potency, fertility and luck. Oak brings fertility to ideas, projects and harvest magick. Oak has powerful protective powers and is sacred to Brigid and Dagda. Carrying oak in sachet or spell bottles is said to bring good luck and healing. Surround white oak around a blue candle for healing. Holistic Properties: A small dose of white oak bark can be added to teas to help combat yeast infections and other reproductive tract infections.
White Sage
Spiritual Energies: Commonly used in a smudge stick, white sage is an one-herb incense used for purification and spirituality. White Sage is commonly burned to clear spaces of stagnant energy and creates a sacred space. It can also be used for spirituality, promoting healing, meditation, animal magick, Shamanic work, and manifesting wishes.
Wormwood
Spiritual Energies: Having a reputation for its power, wormwood is not to be used by the beginner herbalist. It is not be be ingested or inhaled. It is used for clairvoyant and psychic abilities. Wormwood is associated with Samhain and can adorn black candles. Combine with mugwort and amethyst in a sachet for strong psychic abilities.
Yarrow
Spiritual Energies: Ruled by Venus, yarrow is used for love, courage, and psychic powers. It is an all-purpose botanical and a common ingredient in love spells. Yarrow can also be used to attract friendship. It is useful in divination incenses and sachets. Infused in tea, yarrow is said to improve psychic powers. When held in the hand, yarrow is said to help stop fear and heighten courage. Holistic Properties: Yarrow is a blood-purifier and can clean toxins out of the blood. It fights infections in the stomach and intestines, and can help soothe digestion problems. Use yarrow tea while fighting fevers and colds, as it breaks fevers and coughs, and fights infection. Soak a bandage in cool yarrow tea and wrap it around a wound for fast healing.
Also!!! HERBAL BLENDS!! These are combined with oils and can be used in sachets, spell bottles, charms, incenses and simmering potpourris.
Written by Kiki Dombrowski
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