herbal.
by Lilah Wild @ freestylewitchcraft.com
Note: Please use common sense and do research before using an unfamiliar herb, some of them can have adverse effects on your health.
ABSINTHE.
Sprinkle under the bed of a lover to draw that one toward you. Mix with sandalwood and burn as an incense to commune with the dead. Protection.
ACACIA.
To stimulate the psychic center, burn with sandalwood. Used in Dianic rites. Blessing. Power. Mix with sandalwood to attract spirits. Purifies any ceremonial room. Love offering, also platonic love. Protection.
ADAM AND EVE ROOT.
Carried in pairs as love talismans. Insures fidelity and brings couples closer together, also used to attract a lover to a single person. The man carries the Eve and the woman carries the Adam.
AFRICAN GINGER.
Pleasing to elementals. Protection against evil.
ALLSPICE.
Fire magicks. Money, and prosperity. Success.
ALMOND.
Prosperity and money. Climbing an almond tree is said to ensure success in business ventures. Carry in pockets to lead you to treasures.
ALOE.
Healing. Protection against household accidents.
ANGELICA.
Used to purify and banish negativity. Maintains or restores peace and harmony. Sprinkle in the corners of the home and outside the house. Brew as an eye lotion to strengthen vision. Healing. Smoke to induce visions.
ANISE.
Was so prized in Biblical times it was accepted for tax payments. Used in incense to raise psychic power, particularly in voodoo rites, also increases the strength of spells. Mix with camphor and burn. Carry the seeds to avert evil or strengthen passion, or just for good luck. Stuff in a pillow or hang over the bed to ward off nightmares and wake up feeling youthful.
APPLE.
Food of the dead. Love spells, used in making love candles. Pour cider as a libation for growing gardens.
ASH TREE LEAVES.
To prevent hexes and harm. To attract love, and prevents others from making passes at your lover. Place under a pillow to induce prophetic dreams. Keeps one from drowning. Place some in any vehicle so no harm will ever come to any of its passengers. One of the few woods that burn steadily and easily while still green, divination fires are often of green ash.
BAMBOO.
Used in divination in Chinese temples by throwing the sticks. Used for strength and protection. Carve a symbol of protection on it and plant near the home. To call up good spirits, make a flute out of bamboo, carve the name of the spirit and play an improvised melody.
BANANA.
Increases fertility and cures impotency. Luck for brides if married under a banana tree. Leaves, flowers, and fruits are used in money and prosperity spells.
BASIL.
Money and success. Sprinkle in a store to attract customers and dispel bad influences. Love, invokes the help of Erzulie in love affairs. Sprinkle on food or use in love potions. Used to wash an old love out of your life, or to make a barren woman fertile. Attracts friends and dispels melancholy. Keeps evil away, and protects the body from harm. Rub on the forehead for protection in a crowd of people whom you do not trust. Against faintness of heart, and clears the head when used as a snuff. Discourages flies and encourages flavors, which is why the French put pots of basil in their restaurants.
BAYBERRY.
Money. Good fortune.
BAY LAUREL.
A symbol of victory in ancient Greece, was used to crown those who excelled (hence the term poet laureate). Protection from evil, use as a floorsweep or place a leaf in each corner of the house, or carry in pockets. Removes a curse when mixed with sandalwood. Counteracts the workings of Saturn, also stops interference. Priestesses of Delphi chewed the leaves to induce trance states and prophecies, promotes psychic vision. Improves the memory. Drives off caterpillars. Write a wish on a bay leaf, and then burn it to make it come true. Give to brides for a happy marriage, to keep a lover faithful. Rub on the joints to prevent arthritis. To calm a nervous disorder. Pass a leaf over a blank page before writing to inspire creativity.
BELLADONNA.
Promotes psychic vision and astral travel.
BENZOIN.
Peace of mind. Rids evil and hexes. Purifies. Adds strength to rituals. Burn with cinnamon and copal(or cinnamon and basil) for a better business and protection. Burn benzoin to cleanse a home before moving in.
BERGAMOT.
Success. Adds power to any ritual.
BITTER ROOT.
Keeps away burglars, thieves, and pickpockets.
BITTERSWEET.
Aphrodisiac. Place under the pillow to forget about a lost love.
BLACK COHOSH.
Protection from all harm and evil, sprinkle in a ritual room to ward off unwanted spirits. Increases potency in love life, sprinkle around the bed to get an arguing couple to make up. Strength and courage.
BLACK SNAKEROOT.
Sexual potency, burn with any love spell. Carry to lead one toward money. Relieves depression and calms the nerves.
BLADDERWRACK.
Protection while traveling, especially by water. Throw into the ocean to win the favor of the sea spirits. Wards off mental derangement.
BLOOD ROOT.
Uncrossing, no evil can cross where this is sprinkled. Protection from harm. Place on each windowsill of a house. Reversible when thrown on a curser's doorsteps. For fidelity, use this when someone else is trying to take your lover. The salmon-shaded are "queens" and the dark red are "kings."
BLOW BALL(dandelion head).
Carry to make wishes come true.
BLUE COHOSH.
Use if someone has hexed a vehicle, make a tea and wash the car.
BLUEBERRY LEAVES.
Sprinkle under your doormat and those who would wish you harm will not stay long or not come over at all. Eat blueberry pies or tarts when under attack; this gets the protection inside you and increases the herb's effectiveness.
BONESET.
To get rid of an enemy. Exorcise a person by rubbing the leaves all over a person and then burning them outside.
BRAZIL NUT.
Brings luck in love affairs if carried as a talisman.
CACTUS FLOWER.
Protection.
CACTUS THORNS.
Protection against unwanted intrusions when grown indoors. Should be planted outside one in each direction for further protection.
CALAMUS.
Controlling spells. Moon-ruled. Hallucinogenic.
CALENDULA.
Sprinkle under pillow to induce prophetic dreams. Protects a sleeper from harm. Carry in court for justice.
CAMPHOR.
Prophetic vision. Divination. Chastity, decreases lust. Kills germs. Pain relief. Place in corners of rooms to ward off evil. Wishing.
CANADA SNAKEROOT.
Love, sex, aphrodisiac, money. Spirit visioning.
CARDAMOM.
Love potions.
CASCARA SAGRADA.
Winning court cases. Success in an important endeavor. To purify and consecrate ritual spaces. Carry to dispel fear and guard against evil.
CASHEW.
Used in prosperity and money spells.
CATNIP.
Chew to make a gentle person wrathful or bring forth courage. Love and happiness, add to love potions, is an aphrodisiac. Use to calm down a rocky relationship. Healing, boil in wine as a face wash to remove signs of battle.
CAYENNE.
Strengthens the heart. Adds power to any spell like its fire.
CEDAR.
Healing. Strength. Purification and protection. Placed upon the hot rocks in sweat lodges. Money.
CENTUARY.
To cause strange imaginings, crush to a powder and mix with honey, rub on a candle and burn.
CHAMOMILE.
Wash your hands in a tea of it before gambling. Love potions, marriage proposals. Hang in home as protection against lightning. Protects children from evil. Make a tea for calming.
CHERRY.
Japanese love spell: tie a strand of your hair to a cherry tree to find love.
CHERRY BARK WILD.
To make a lover more passionate. To encourage spirits to bring peace and happiness to the home.
CHICORY.
Opens locks. Carry to remove obstacles. Invisibility.
CHRYSANTHEMUM.
Grow in the garden to protect it from evil spirits.
CINNAMON.
Burn to make a voodoo room sacred/to purify the premises. Mix with frankincense, myrrh, and sandalwood and burn to keep evil away. Love potion, intensifies a love relationship. Money. Psychic power. Healing.
CHILI PEPPER.
Fire magicks.
CHINA BERRY.
Seeds are used a good luck charms, and are carried to bring about a change in life.
CLOVER.
Wear to avoid military duty.
CLOVES.
Stops gossip. Mix with chicory and cinquefoil and burn as an incense to increase psychic powers. Friendship. Banishing evil. Good luck. Clearing the head.
COPAL.
Burned to remove evil and attract blessings. A piece of copal represents the heart in poppets.
CORIANDER.
Love potions, stuff into mate's pillow to prevent wandering. A charm against illness and disease.
COWSLIP.
Throw in your front yard if you don't want visitors.
CURRY.
Keeps evil forces away. Adds more power to reversible spells.
CYPRESS.
Used at times of crisis, especially at the death of a friend or relative. Eases grief. Protection.
DAFFODIL.
Love spells.
DAISY.
Love spells. Whomever picks the first daisy of the season will be possessed with a spirit of coquetry beyond any control.
DAMIANA.
Aphrodisiac. To return a wandering lover. Fights impotency. Builds vigor. Attracts good luck. Burned to induce visions. Divination. Dreams.
DANDELION.
To make wishes come true. Tea for clairvoyance. Summons spirits. To overcome despondency. Bury under the northwest corner of a house to bring favorable winds to the property and its inhabitants.
DATURA.
Astral projection. Divination.
DEVILS SHOESTRING.
Gambling. Prevents nightmares and wards off evil spirits while sleeping. Protection. Luck. Power, place in a jar filled with whiskey and camphor. Brings back a lover. For people who live dangerously. Invisibility. To make a person stop bothering you. Stops gossip. Confuses enemies. Helps in court cases. Helps find a job. Works better when placed among wild flowers. Increases the potency of candle magick.
DILL.
Love potions, German brides put it in their shoes or wear it in their hair for good luck. Repels curses. Used to induce sleep. In colonial times, was a meeting seed for parishoners who nibbled on it to suppress hunger pangs while sermons droned on.
DITTANY OF CRETE.
Base for incenses that bring on evocational manifestations, the wraiths appear in the smoke rising from the censer. Love potions. Mix with vanillan powder, benzoin and sandalwood and burn before astral projection.
DRAGONS BLOOD.
Luck and money. Place under the mattress to cure impotency and make a lover pick up intensity. Destroys a lover's lust for others and encourages proposals. To get rid of a curse, burn near an open window for seven nights at midnight to uncross a person. Purification. Good to clean out a new dwelling. To encourage visions and prophetic dreams.
ECHINACEA.
Burned by the Native Americans as an offering when seeking aid from spirits. Health.
EUCALYPTUS.
Protection. Healing, especially against colds. Place under pillow.
EYEBRIGHT.
Brewed as a tea for clearing the mind and stimulating the memory. Encourages dreams when added to incense. Use when you need to see truth in a matter.
FERN.
Invisibility.
FIVE FINGER GRASS.
Wards off any evil five fingers can do. Add to Lucky Hand mojo bags. Hang over bed to promote restful sleep. For unclassifiable aims.
FLAX.
Tea to increase powers of divination. Sprinkle on the floors of your spiritual room. Carried by children to protect them and make them more beautiful. Protects against sorcery. Keep in the home to protect against disturbing outside influences and promote tranquility.
FRANKINCENSE.
Holy offering. Strengthens the work to make one's prayers listened to.
GAG ROOT.
Carry for protection against jealousy so no one can spread gossip about you.
GALANGAL.
Court cases. Hallucinogenic.
GARLIC.
Protection from hexes. Draws customers to a business. Visions. Healing. Rub on a magnet to destroy its powers of attraction.
GINGER.
Fast results as a love potion. Used to heat up spells.
GOLDEN SEAL.
Mix with healing incense for better health.
GOTU KOLA.
Divination. Dreams. Increases mental stamina. Improves the memory. Longevity. Energy. Meditation.
GRAVEL ROOT.
Helps those looking for a job.
GUINEA PEPPER.
Protects against conjure. Legal matters. Fed to saints for success.
HEARTSEASE.
To help someone get over a relationship. Increases love and affection. Keeps a lover faithful. Aids in healing.
HEATHER.
Wear to guard against rape and sexual passion. Conjures rain when burned outside with fern. Also summons ghosts.
HELIOTROPE.
Invisibility. Solar powers. Place under the pillow if you have been robbed, the thief will appear in a dream.
HOLLY.
Guards against poison, lightning, and evil spirits. Plant around the house to protect inhabitants from outer influences.
HOLY THISTLE.
Hexbreaking.
HONEYSUCKLE.
Surround green candles or place in vases for money. Lightly crush fresh flowers and rub on the forehead to increase psychic powers.
HOREHOUND.
Keeps trouble away, wards off jealous and envious people. To keep healthy.
HORSERADISH.
Sprinkle around the home to disperse any evil influences.
HORSETAIL.
To call snakes, play a whistle made from the stem.
HYACINTH.
Use in sachets to ease the pain of childbirth. Grow in the bedroom to guard against nightmares.
HYDRANGEA.
To get someone out of prison.
HYSSOP.
Purification. Exorcism. Protection against evil. Speeds healing. Protects against accidents.
IRIS.
Wisdom.
IRISH MOSS.
Place under the rugs to attract prosperity. Good luck. Money.
IRON WEED.
To end hatred between two people.
IVY.
Good luck for women. Guards against negativity and disaster where it grows. Magically paired with holly. Used in fidelity and love charms.
JAMAICA GINGER.
Gambling luck.
JASMINE.
Stimulant to psychic centers and dreams. For love.
JEZEBEL ROOT.
To make people more generous towards you. Money.
JOHN THE CONQUEROR.
Luck and success in all matters.
KAVA KAVA.
Love potions. Protects against harm while travelling. Good luck.
LAUREL.
See Bay Laurel.
LAVENDER.
Love and peace. Used to get a man to propose. Used by prostitutes centuries ago to attract customers. To write a successful love letter, rub the sheet of paper with the flowers. Money. Attracts good spirits. Pain relief. Carried by children to prevent evil. Carry and inhale to see ghosts. Calms and subdues evil spirits lingering in the home.
LEMON.
Mix the juice with water to wash jewelry, amulets, and other magickal tools that have been obtained secondhand.
LEMON GRASS.
Lust. Developing psychic powers. For lustrous hair, wash in a tea of lemon grass.
LICORICE.
To insure fidelity, love potions, to increase passion. Sprinkle on a lover's footprints to keep them faithful. To get someone to change their mind.
LIFE EVERLASTING.
Prolong life, protects against illness, healing. Dreams.
LILAC.
Drives away evil. Plant in haunted places.
LILY.
To break love spells.
LINDEN.
To keep a lover faithful, love, increase sexual drive. Sleep. Luck.
LOTUS.
A sacred offering. Attract vibratory and magnetic powers for increased strength. To break love spells.
LUCKY HAND ROOT.
The root of an orchid plant. Good luck, gambling. To ward off evil spells. To get and hold a job.
MAIDENHAIR.
Love. Beauty and romance. To bring grace. Immerse in water, then wear.
MANDRAKE.
Ingredient in flying ointment, and evocational incenses, used in image magic. Love, to increase virility and fertility. A Saturn offering. Carry to be protected from all harm and for exorcism. Hang over doors to protect a house. Dreaming true. To attract money, fill a bottle of oil with a mandrake root in it and add a dime. Sleep with a mandrake under the pillow for three nights during the full moon, then place it under the altar for special spells, take with you to important meetings, confrontations, etc.
MAGNOLIA.
Faithfulness. Love, to keep marital peace.
MARIGOLD.
To win the respect and admiration of others. Love. Prophetic dreams.
MARJORAM.
Protection against evil. Love, to attract a husband. Uplifts a sad person's spirits if they bathe in it. When used in cooking, creates a bond of friendship between all who partake.
MARSHMALLOW.
To protect a child from harm.
MEADOWSWEET.
Love and peace.
MESQUITE.
Purification. Healing. Magickal fires.
MIMOSA.
Dreaming true.
MINT.
Love. Protection against witchcraft. Against afflictions of the stomach. Money.
MISTLETOE.
Love. To return an ex-lover. Good luck when hunting for a mate. To cure impotency. To make yourself irresistible to the opposite sex. To prevent a lover from wandering. Protection. Opening locks. Invisibility.
MUGWORT.
Prophecy and divination, prophetic dreaming, stuff into a pillow. Prevents tiring and gives protection while traveling, place in soles of shoes. Crystal and mirror gazing, crystal washing. Soak in wine and drink before astral projecting, drink as tea to induce clairvoyance.
MULLEIN.
For courage. Invokes spirits. Drives away demons and nightmares. Love potions.
MUSTARD SEED.
Ancient good luck talisman. Faith followed by success. Protection. Spiritual blessings. Keeps lovers faithful to each other. Reviving the spirits, expelling heaviness, and strengthening the memory. Chew for a toothache.
MYRRH.
Sacred, a holy offering. Love. Purifying areas. Bringing peace. Mix with frankincense for greater strength.
MYRTLE.
Youth and love, encourages sensuality. Carried by brides when getting married. Spread under the bed to keep unhappiness out and love in. Luck and money. Health. Calm sleep. Inhaling vapors of an infusion, relieves head pains caused by a severe cold.
NETTLE.
Removing curses. Reversing spells. Binding. Mix with yarrow and carry to dispel fear.
NUTMEG.
Gambling. Good luck charms. Prosperity, money. Love. Fertility. Euphoria. For a landlord to find a tenant. Sleep. Mediation.
OAK.
Love spells. Removes spirits from a dwelling. Strength. Protection.
OLIVE.
Purification. Healing.
ORANGE.
Love. Happy marriage.
ORANGE FLOWERS.
For marriage, love potions.
ORCHID.
Love. Visions and psychic power.
ORRIS ROOT.
Love. Dreams. Divination through using the root as a pendulum.
PAPAYA LEAVES.
Burn to reverse a spell.
PASSION FLOWER.
To be lucky in love affairs. Peace. Harmony and friendship. To calm an angry person. Keeps away mistrust. Friendship.
PATCHOULI.
Brings back a lost lover, love and sexiness. Lust. Reversing curses, hexbreaking. To lose enemies. Money.
PEACH TREE.
Helps pass tests. Wisdom.
PENNYROYAL.
Marital peace. Peace and tranquility. Protection from evil in home. Protects against seasickness and headaches. Makes one mentally alert and aware.
PEPPERMINT.
Prophetic dreams and psychic ability, visions. Calm and peaceful sleep. Healing, purification. Love. Money.
PERIWINKLE.
Sometimes called Sorcerer's Violet. Love. To attract money. Dispels evil. To recall past incarnations.
PINE.
For reversals, use the needles. Cleans the house. Attracts wealth.
PISTACHIO.
To break love spells.
PLANTAIN.
Hang in the car to protect it from jealous people. Carry in a charm bag to help a bereaved person conquer grief.
POPPY SEEDS.
Cure insomnia by placing the seeds under the pillow. Visionary dreams. Invisibility. To multiply money.
PRIMROSE.
Sew into a pillow to insure a child's truthfulness and respect for others. To cure madness. Attracts fairies.
PUMPKIN SEEDS.
To keep an enemy from bothering you.
RADISH.
Carry to determine the whereabouts of sorcerors.
RASPBERRY.
For women, bathe in this to keep your lover from wanting to leave you. Also against feminine afflictions.
RATTLESNAKE ROOT.
Rub on soles of shoes to attract money. Reversals, protection from evil magicks. Helps one in choosing a lover. To destroy unwanted love.
RED MUSTARD SEEDS.
Mix with mistletoe and sprinkle around the house, especially in the bedroom to keep your lover faithful.
ROCK SALT.
Mix with dill and sprinkle around the house to remove evil.
ROSE BUDS.
Love. Attraction. Beauty. Happiness in the home. Uncrossing. Toss a few into a fire for good luck. Drink in a tea for prophetic dreams.
ROSEMARY.
Protection against evil. Prophetic dreams. Keep near the bed to insure faithfulness. Gives a woman power over her home when carried. To soothe the nerves. Healing. Love, worn by brides on the wedding day. Sleep. Wards off nightmares. Use when visitors are in the home to bring warm feelings to all present, attracts joy wherever it is kept. Carry to comfort the heart and improve memory. Power to rekindle lost energy.
ROWAN.
Protection. Walking sticks made from rowan are excellent for people walking at night.
RUE.
Exorcism. Keeps women from making the wrong choices in love. To cause a person regret for wrongdoing. To assuage guilt and sorrow. To gain forgiveness. Healing. Wisdom. To discourage unwanted visitors. Makes the eyes keen and the wits alert.
SAGE.
Wisdom. Increases lust in women. Reversible spells, protects against evil purification. Absorbs ill fortune that enters a home, hang over doorways or carry. Against melancholy and distress of the mind. Attracts toads.
SAFFRON.
Drink a tea to dispel depression. Love. Healing.
SALT.
Used for protection and shielding.
SALTPETER.
Add to any incense to increase its power.
SANDALWOOD.
Holy offering. Healing. Protection. Mix with lavender to conjure spirits.
SATYRION.
Love and passion, aphrodisiac.
SASSAFRAS.
Money. Blood purifier.
SCULLCAP.
Love, keeps a husband faithful. Inspires others to give you gifts and money.
SEA SALT.
For cleansing crystals and magick mirrors. Purification. Protection.
SEA SPIRIT.
Blessings of the spirits, keep in a bottle filled with whiskey, keep in the kitchen window or one in each room for good luck. Keep in an open bowl in the home to ease tension. Prophetic dreams and visions. Worn by women who want to arouse sexual passion in their husbands. Add to attraction incense and burn to encourage renters to an apartment.
SENNA.
Carry to bring forth the better qualities of those you meet.
SESAME.
Leave a jar of seeds open in the house to draw cash, but change the seeds every month. Discover hidden treasures, open locked doors.
SILVERWEED.
Place in a bottle of whiskey and seal with red wax, and place in each room of the home for good luck.
SLIPPERY ELM.
To stop gossip.
SMARTWEED.
Attracts money. Clears the mind. To speed healing.
SNAKEHEAD.
Favor in court.
SNAPDRAGON.
To keep someone from deceiving you. If someone has cursed you, place snapdragons on the altar with a mirror behind them to send the curse back.
SPEARMINT.
Protection from vertigo spells. Healing. Love. Wisdom. Rids the home of evil spirits. For a landlord who wants to keep his property rented. Money. Sharpens mental powers.
SPIKENARD.
Keeps a lover faithful when buried in the ground. Worn hear the heart for good luck and to ward off disease.
STRAWBERRY.
Love.
SUGAR.
Love and lust. Scattered to dispel evil. Cleanse and purify ritual areas.
SUNFLOWER.
Wisdom. Solar energies. Sleep with one under the pillow to know the truth in any matter.
SWEETGRASS.
To call spirits.
ST. JOHN'S WORT.
Happiness. Healing. Strength. Courage. Love. Protection. Divination.
TANSY.
Love. Healing. Induce labor. Sprinkle in shoes to keep law away. Mix with catnip and brew as a tea for narcotic effect.
THISTLE.
To call spirits.
THYME.
Healing. Money. Good luck. To cleanse magick rooms. Drives away nightmares. To be admired by others. Renews the spirit and vital energy when carried while walking. To see fairies, carry or place on eyelids and sleep on a fairy hill.
TONKA BEANS.
Wishing. Love. Good luck. Draws money, customers. Health.
VANDAL ROOT.
Destroys hexes.
VANILLA BEANS.
Burn one bean per week to attract and keep love.
VANILLAN.
Love.
VERBENA.
Success in the arts. Add to rituals as a help for success. Drives away evil. Helps children learn faster. If a marriage is going sour, place a jar of lemon verbena behind the wedding pictures. Burned during rituals to attract good influences and drive away evil spirits.
VERVAIN.
Love. Purification. Sleep. Youth. Protection, warding off evil. Sharpen meditation and remove fears. Fertility. Dianic rituals. Fortifies spell when candles are rolled in it. Brings luck and inspiration when added to incense. Enable a soldier to escape their enemies. Decreases lust.
VETIVERT.
Used to overcome evil spells. To bind an enemy. Protect a home from thievery and vandalism. Increases business.
VIOLET.
Connotation of moon. Offering to the Goddess. Femininity, Intuition. Love, to reunite separated lovers. Wear in shoes to overpower others. Healing. Blessing of good spirits. Purification. Protection.
VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT.
Good luck.
WILLOW.
Love. Wands are dedicated to moon magick. Guard against evil. Healing. Mix crushed bark with sandalwood and burn at the waning moon outdoors.
WINTERGREEN.
Bathe your children to bring them good luck, protects them from harm from other kids. Money. Cleansing.
WITCH'S GRASS.
Helps attract a new lover.
WITCH HAZEL.
To decrease lust. Health.
WORMWOOD.
Calls spirits and brings friends of the underworld to the surface. Removes hexes. Draws forth psychic ability. Hang in car to prevent accidents.
YARROW.
To overcome fear. Love spells.
