Supernatural Botanical Uses and Properties

BASIL

[Ocimum basilicum / Witches Herb]

INFORMATION

Most common varieties of basil are annuals, some are perennial in warm, tropical climates

Safe to consume, including flower buds

When soaked in water, the seeds of several varieties become gelatinous (used commonly in drinks/desserts)

Essential oil showed antifungal and insect-repelling properties, including potential toxicity to mosquitos

CAT SAFE

PRIMARY CORRESPONDENCES

Protection

Love

Strength

Happiness

Wealth/Abundance

Peace

MEDICINAL QUALITIES

Migraine: Early research shows that applying basil essential oil to the forehead and temples every 8 hours can reduce migraine pain by a small amount in some people.

Stomach: Basil contains chemicals that may kill bacteria and fungi. As such, chemicals in basil might reduce symptoms in the gastrointestinal tract

MAGICKAL USES

Protection and assistance in astral projection

Add the tea to create a purification bath.

Cleanse with, or keep the potted plant around your home to keep good energy circulating in your home. Plant at threshold to repel negative energy/spirits.

Tea for lucid dreaming or stomach issues

Midsummer or Litha Altar: Cut fresh from the garden and place into vases. Situate the altar in a sunny space. Grows roots in 5-7 days, after which you can plant it back in the garden

Tuck a leaf from the plant into your wallet to call money into your life.

Slippery Elm:

Warding, honor, enlightenment, affluence, protection, development, abundance, honesty, spirituality, and psychic power.

Solomon’s Seal:

Guardianship, dexterity, serenity, cleansing, wisdom, recognition, fortification, soothing, banishment, intelligence, security, peacefulness, and fortitude,

Southernwood:

Warding, majesty, attraction, protection, love, sensuality, shielding, romance, glamours, and beauty spells.

Spearmint:

Revitalization, romance, intellect, healing, love, recognition, dexterity, freshness, knowledge, abundance, compassion, revitalization, cleansing, and wealth.

St John’s Wort:

Defense, restoration, relaxing, manifestation, banishment, healing, soothing, security, cleansing, protection, purification, calming, warding, and exorcisms,

Sugarcane:

Confidence, fertility, wealth, kindness, glamours, fruitfulness, romance, beauty, attraction, sensuality, fecundity, generosity, prosperity, lust, and conception.

Sweetgrass:

Invocation, deep cleansing, serenity, restoration, potential banishment, communication, spirituality, healing, tranquility, spirit work, and purification.

Tamarisk:

Banishment, faith, connection, warding, respect, covenant, shielding, purification, devotion, protection, friendship, defense, and cleansing.

Thistle:

Restoration, purification, fortification, strength, warding, banishment, healing, protection, valor, cleansing, revitalization, and breaking hexes or curses.

Thyme:

Healing, restfulness, psychic power, romance, courage, cleansing, calming, restoration, tranquility, amorousness, bravery, purification, and soothing.

Tobacco:

Offerings, soothing, purification, devotion, respect, sacredness, exchange, spirituality, spirit work, boundaries, and crossroads.

Valerian:

Stability, love, inspiration, purification, tranquility, soothing, grounding, protection, calming, creativity, harmonization, romance, cleansing, and warding.

Vanilla:

Mental strength, majesty, sensuality, love, recognition, grandeur, dexterity, romance, splendor, glamours, attraction, intelligence, and elegance. Vervain:

Wormwood:

Fortification, divination, romance, warding, spirit work, love, psychic power, protection, spirituality, and calling and communicating with spirits.

Yarrow:

Syzygium aromaticum

Myrtaceae

Description:

Clove comes from a coniferous tree (Clove tree) with dark green slender leaves, which grows in the tropical regions, the flower buds range from cream to red in color, and its berries are purple. Nails are actually sun-dried flower buds.

Medicinal Properties

Cloves are used as well as the essence obtained by steam distillation.

Internal use:

For internal use, Cloves are used to treat physical and intellectual asthenia, dyspepsia, gastric fermentation, flatulence, diarrhea, intestinal parasites, pulmonary diseases (tuberculosis), dental neuralgia and impotence .

It is also used to prepare for childbirth and to prevent infectious diseases.

For all this you can take 2-4 drops of Clove essence 3 times a day in honey or in alcoholic solution.

A few drops of clove oil added to water will stop vomiting.

You can also very simply regularly use the Nails of Cloves in daily cooking.

To prepare for childbirth, use Clove in soups during the last months of pregnancy, then before childbirth take an infusion of Clove.

Against the lack of sexual desire you can make imps also called lozenges aphrodisiacs from Naples.

For this you need 500 parts of sugar, 12 of mastic, 8 of saffron, 1 of musk, 2 of ginger, 2 of cloves, 4 of ambergris, and a sufficient quantity of infused marum. Make it into 0.50 to 1 g lozenges, and take it 4 to 5 times a day.

External use:

In external use, Cloves can be used to treat scabies, infected wounds or not, leg ulcers, corneal sores, dental neuralgia, and lupus. They are also used to repel mosquitoes and insects moths.

For this the best is to use them in the form of pure Clove oil. This gasoline pure can also be used as an umbilical cord dressing, since it is neither toxic nor irritating, and that it is also analgesic.

Cloves can also be used in the form of fumigations, lotions, or compresses.

Against dental neuralgia you can make mouthwashes with Cloves, and against corneal stains you can use fluid aqueous extract.

For lupus use the essence in dilution alcoholic between 5 and 10% in friction.

Against scabies, use Helmerich's ointment (see Lavender).

Finally, to ward off mosquitoes and moths, poke an orange with cloves.

Warning

Please note: the notes on the phytotherapeutic use of plants are purely indicative and do not replace consultation with a doctor.  Absolutely avoid self-medication.  If you are sick, go see a doctor, only he can make a diagnosis and prescribe the best treatment.

Magic and Witchcraft

Gender: Male

Planets: Jupiter, Venus

Element: Fire

Deities: Aphrodite, Dionysus, Eros.

Magical Properties

Cloves are used for protection, exorcism, money, love.

Burned in incense, Cloves attract wealth, repel negative and hostile forces, produce spiritual vibrations and purify the aura.

It carries the fire and when the fire circulating in a being or acting in a situation is unbalanced, it brings harmony.

Cloves can also be used to attract small amounts of money. All you need to do is put some in your wallet.

Cloves can also be burned in incense to prevent others from telling gossip about you.

Burn cloves or clove powder with pure incense when the atmosphere is filled with anger or you wish to reconcile with someone.

Clove oil has long been used to relieve the pain of dental caries and abscesses. To do this, crush 7 cloves in olive oil, make a paste and apply it to the skin covering the painful area by drawing a pentagram or a cross.

Finally worn on oneself, Cloves, which are reputed to be aphrodisiacs in Asia, attract.people of the opposite sex and bring comfort to those who are grieving.

Several pinches of Clove powder in a bath kindles the fire of the aura and engenders the attraction of the opposite sex.

Spell to get rid of people who say bad things about you

What you will need:

A red candle.

Clove incense (or powder).

A sheet of white paper.

A pencil.

A few drops of vinegar.

Direction :

You will perform this ritual during the waning phase of the Moon.

Light the candle.

Light the incense.

Write on the paper the name of the person or persons who are bothering you.

Pass the paper over the incense smoke, repeating 3 times:

"It's time for you to leave me,

stop trying to embarrass me,

I want nothing more than peace, calm and tranquility forever. "

Pour a few drops of vinegar on the paper and let it burn in the flame of the candle.

Sources :

Morrigan's Grimoire of Herbs.

On the use of herbs, powders and incense in magic by Mikhael d'Estissac.

Magic recipe from our countryside by Patrick Guerin.

Rosa Canina

Gender: Feminine

Element: Water

Planetary Ruler: Venus or Moon

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Deity: Hathor, Isis, Venus, Aphrodite

Scientific description

A charming, 1-3 meters (3-9 ft) tall bush with overhanging branches. All branches are covered in hooked thorns. Green, serrated leaves alternate and are oval and pointy. The bush blooms with sweet-smelling, soft pink flowers. The fruit, widely known as rosehip, varies in shape from egg-shaped to round and they are bright red.

It is native to Europe and some parts of Asia and North America.

Collecting

When: flowers from June to July, fruit from September to October, rosehips are best gathered after the first frost

What: flower and fruit, called rosehip

Where: deciduous forests and their edges, roadsides, hedgerows, brush

Medicinal Use

source of vitamins A, B, C, E, and K

flu prevention

boosts immunity and concentration, aids with springtime lethargy

aids in treating urinary tract and kidney diseases

The most common way to use rosehips is an infusion. Combine one teaspoon of hips per cup of water. Next, allow to steep in boiling water for 15 minutes, covered.

Magical Use

luck and prosperity spells

place underneath your pillow to banish nightmares

string together the hips with a needle and thread and wear to attract love to you

add to any healing charm for extra power

add crushed rosehips and rose petals to a ritual bath to release stress

Culinary Use

jams and jellies from both flowers and fruit, rosehip sauce (served with meat)

rosehip wine

Kitchen Witch Tips

Jams and jellies made from Rosa Canina should be used within a year, since they rapidly start losing their vitamin C content after that.

Rosehips should be dried as soon as possible, but the drying temperature should not exceed 60 °C (140 °F). Otherwise, they start to blacken and lose their medicinal value. If you’re drying the rosehips in an oven, always leave the oven door ajar or use the oven fan. A properly dried rosehip should turn dark red color and it should pop and crumble between your fingers.

Part two: Lemon flesh and juice

Basics of lemons:

Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element: Water Energy: Feminine

Lemon flesh/juice in witchcraft

The best lemonade you'll ever have is also a potent spiritual protection spell/potion! Cut off the peel of 2 large lemons, and slice the flesh into bits. Remove seeds. Add bits to a pot with a sprig of fresh basil, 2 cups of water, and 1 cup of sugar(or to taste, I personally only use 1/2 a cup). Simmer for 10 minutes and stir occasionally while mashing the lemon bits with a spoon. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and strain over 2 cups of ice water in a pitcher. This should give you about 4 or 5 cups of lemonade depending on your sugar taste. You can also add water, use more lemon - whatever calls to you.

Lemon juice is just full of cleansing energy and potent negative energy absorption. Add a bit to your water in the mornings to help absorb negativity all day! Easy, fast, delightful in sparkling water (but I am secretly a 65-year-old grandparent in a 22-year-old body so I like sparkling water)

Lemon juice is also very protective outside your body. You can dab it onto your clothes, add a tablespoon to your washing machine or dishwasher, or even just sprinkle a tiny bit into your mop bucket (And I mean TINY: a tablespoon to a gallon ratio, or even less). All of that with infuse you and your home with a clean, fresh energy.

Of course, these are just a few easy broom-closet-friendly ideas, so if you aren't worried about keeping your practice hidden, feel free to add on your ideas and tricks! My blog is geared mostly towards beginners or people living in unfriendly environments, so a lot of my lists, tricks, and tips are for them. As always, remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment! Blessed be!

Gender: Feminine

Planet: Saturn

Element: Fire

Known as:

Candlewick plant, lungwort, velvet plant, woolen blanket herb, verbascum flowers, hare's beard, pig taper, wooly mullien, flannel flower, Aaron's rod, cow's lungwort & fluff weed

Magickal uses:

• Sprinkle along with dill, salt and fennel around haunted areas to repel malicious spirits or ghosts

• Carry in an amulet or satchet to attract the opposite sex or for protection

• Place under or near your child's bed to protect against being stolen by the fae

• Ground leaves are often used as a substitute for graveyard dirt

• Add in a dream pillow to prevent nightmares

• Hang in doorways as a powerful barrier against demons and evil spirits

• Burn to banish bad influences and bring a quick end to bad habit

• Wear or place in your shoe to keep wild animals from attacking you

• Use in a ritual bath to bring bravery and keeps enemies at bay

• Combine with mugwort, catnip, damina, lavender, or blue lotus can increase your focus and open your third eye to make it easier to receive messages from the spirits or deities

Other uses:

• Unsed for cough, whooping cough, tuberculosis, bronchitis, hoarseness, pneumonia, earaches, colds, chills, flu, swine flu, fever, allergies, tonsillitis, and sore throat

• Other uses include asthma, diarrhea, colic, gastrointestinal bleeding, migraines, joint pain, and gout

• It is also used as a sedative and as a diuretic to increase urine output.It can be applied to the skin for wounds, burns, hemorrhoids, bruises, frostbite, and skin infections

• The leaves are used topically to soften and protect the skin

• In manufacturing, mullein is used as a flavoring ingredient in alcoholic beverages

Deities:

Jupiter, Saturn

Gender: Feminine

Planet: Moon, Venus

Element: Earth

Known as: Artemisia, felon herb, sailor's tobacco, naughty man, St.John's plant, cingulum &muggons

DO NOT USE IF PREGNANT OR BREASTFEEDING

Magickal uses:

•Place under your pillow to bringing peaceful sleep, prophetic dreams and aiding in astral travel

• Add to incense for cleansing and clearing energy

• Place around scrying tools to increase their energy

• Add to herbal smoke blends to stimulate lucid dreaming, astral travel, and visualization

• Make an infusion of mugwort to wash magic mirrors and crystal balls to aid in physic workings

• Burn with Sandalwood or wormwood for scrying rituals

•Carry in a satchets for protection and increasing lust, fertility & preventing back pain

• Throw mugwort in a fire during Midsummer for protection for the following year

• Use in tea before bed to encourage lucid dreaming

•Hanging mugwort over or on a door to keep unwelcome energies from passing through

•Wash your hands with a mugwort infusion to increase energy flow before tarot or pendulum readings

Other uses:

• Mugwort taken orally is promoted for digestive problems, irregular menstruation, and high blood pressure. It is also promoted as a sedative, laxative, and liver tonic.

•Mugwort lotion applied topically (to the skin) is promoted for itching caused by hypertrophic scars (visible, raised scars that can sometimes cause restricted movement of muscles, joints, and tendons).

•Mugwort as a tea can be used to encourage uterine contract and miscarriage and menstrual cycle. Use with caution

Deities: Aida Wedo, Artemis, Diana, Isis, Lakshimi, St. John

Gender: Feminine

Planet: Moon and Sun

Element: Water

Magickal uses:

Add to a satchet and hang into your closet to ensure you will have enough of everything. Add to an amulet to attract love, peace and happiness. Burn as an incense to bring peace for consecration or to deepen your meditative state, use to enhance any Magickal working, burn with frankincense during banishing rituals, place in a dream pillow for a restful sleep, burned before ritual to rid area of negative vibrations, carry the thorns of the tree to ease grief. Good for blessing, health, exorcism, mediation, protection, power, spirituality, purification, happiness and consecration workings

Other uses:

Myrrh is used for indigestion, ulcers, colds, cough, asthma, lung congestion, arthritis pain, cancer, leprosy, spasms, and syphilis. It is also used as a stimulant and to increase menstrual flow.

In foods and beverages, myrrh is used as a flavoring component.

In manufacturing, myrrh is used as a fragrance, in incense, and as a fixative in cosmetics. It is also used in embalming.

Deities:

Adonis, Rhea, Saturn, Demeter, Marian, Oshun, Juno, Isis, Hecate, Cybele, Ra, Nepthys, Hera and Freya

Bay

bay laurel, latin name laurus nobilis!

planet: sun

element: fire

magical properties/powers: protection, healing, purification, strength and psychic powers

burning a bay leaf with a wish written on them is said to make it come true--and fun fact, bay is sacred to apollo!!

medicinal uses: used to treat skin--rashes, earaches, muscle/joint pain, etc--related issues

Properties, History, and Usage of Lemongrass

By a witch :)

I recently bought some lemongrass and I literally cannot find a compiled article/post about it so I took it upon myself to make one.

Disclaimer: all this information has been compiled through research - including the medical information. I am not a medical professional or a scientist; I am simply trying to create an introductory post to certain herbs.

History

Lemongrass is an important herb in Southeast Asian history and tradition. Heralded for its (apparent) medicinal uses, it is a popular go-to herb for gastrointestinal issues. However, it also has magical properties and is used largely for cleansing rituals.

Properties

Botanical name: Cymbopogon (citratus)

Other names: barbed wire grass; silky heads; Cochin grass; Malabar grass

Found in: Mainly Southeast Asia; Africa; Australia. Native range is Southern India and Sri Lanka

Scent and taste: mild lemon-like

Uses

Cooking

Bulbous lower leaf section is used for cooking

Sections of mature leaves are used for teas, soups, and stews (may be used dried or fresh)

Lemongrass has a mild lemon taste and is not very sour or strong; it can be substituted with low quantities of lemon/lime juice in cooking. It adds a certain sweetness to a dish.

Herbal Medicinal Properties - please remember that there are very little medical studies that prove these properties of lemongrass; these are all taken from folk traditions and cultural practices. 

Aids indigestion and flatulence 

Relieves pain and swelling

Reduce fever

Reduce and control sugar levels

Antioxidant properties

Magical Properties

Aids in communication

Provides protection

Used in cleansing work

Purifying element

Preserving element

Improve psychic powers/intuition

Enhance good luck/turn bad luck into good luck

How to use lemongrass

Oils. 

Add to floor washes to remove negativity and cleanse a space.

Ritual baths or just baths in general.

Teas. Use to cleanse the mind, purify thoughts and emotions, and to improve psychic powers/intuition.

Use in cleansing sachets.

Use in protection sachets (with stronger protection-oriented herbs).

It is also believed to discourage insects in the home (have fun with this one). 

Sources

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-719/lemongrass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbopogon

https://thewitchsguide.com/products/lemongrass

Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Deities: Venus, Aphrodite Plant type: Evergreen tree

Uses: Deepen your spiritual connection, invite success, give you the power to change anything, make your life easier

When burned as incense it raises high spiritual vibrations, aids in healing, draws money, stimulates psychic powers, produces protective vibrations

Used in sachets and infusions

Enhances the magical properties of other herbs used with, when used with Sandalwood it deepens your insights

Can be worn as a love charm (especially the oil)

Sprinkle in your room for protection

Vervain (holy herb) is a beautiful flower with the magical ability to provide protection against evil spells & negative energy. Burning Vervain purifies and consecrates sacred spaces, temples and the home. The flower can also be used to cleanse and purify ceremonial tools, crystals and altars. If you feel like you are in need of protection against hexes or other forms of spiritual attack carry a small cloth or silk bag filled with Vervain on your person.

Vervain enhances your psychic abilities by opening the third eye. To activate your 6th sense rub some oil or ointment that has been infused with the herb on your forehead before you engage in meditation or astral work. Adding Vervain to a dream pillow along with other psychic herbs such as Mugwort, Wormwood and Star Anise enhances your ability to engage in prophetic dreaming. Placing a small bowl of Vervain on the table before engaging in divination with tarot cards or a pendulum helps gives you better results.

CAMOMILE

[Chamomile/Ground Apple]

INFORMATION

Camomile has caused uterine contractions that can invoke miscarraige

German Camomile (Matricaria chamomilla) and Roman (Chamaemelum nobile) are commonly used to make herbal infusions for traditional medicine

NOT CAT SAFE

PRIMARY CORRESPONDENCES

Sleep/Relaxation

Love

Purification/Protection

Wealth/Prosperity

Healing

MEDICINAL QUALITIES

Camomile is under preliminary research for its potential anti-anxiety properties

Possibly effective when used in medications for diarrhea and indigestion/heartburn (German camomile)

MAGICKAL USES

Used in brews to calm nerves and induce sleep.

Used to attract money and combat curses

Burn camomile flowers as an incense to promote prosperity, calm, meditation or sleep.

Use in prosperity spells to bring in more money for the work you perform (especially artists, artisans)

Drink a cup of camomile tea daily for healing and relaxing properties

A bath with camomile and lavender can assist with sleep

Place fresh or dried flowers in the bedroom for protection and sweet dreams

Use in spells to call down the sun/charge magical items with solar energy

Use in the bath/as a face wash to increase self-love. Wash your hands with a camomile infusion to attract luck