Herbs, Plants & Oils
D - G
Daisy
Lust, Luck
Damiana
Damiana is used in lust infusions as well as lust spells.
Dandelion
To find out how long you will live, blow the seeds off the head of a dandelion. You will live as many years as there are seeds left on the head. To tell the time: blow three times at the seed head. The number left is the hour. The root, when dried, roasted and ground like coffee, is used to make a tea. This infusion will promote psychic powers. This same tea, steaming and placed beside the bed, will call spirits. To send a message to a loved one, blow at the seed head in his or her direction and visualize your message. Dandelion, buried in the northwest corner of the house, brings favorable winds.
Dragon's Blood
Energizes and attracts inspiration and success. Protection. Virility, strength and passion. Attraction of male energies. Purifies, out illness and infection. Helps heal bones, teeth, blood disorders, and reproductive organs.
Ebony
Protection, Power
Echinacea
Enchinacea was used by Indians as an offering to spirit and strengthen spells
Edelweiss
Invisibility, Bullet-Proofing
Elecampane
Worn, elecampane attracts love Sew up some of the leaves or flowers in pink cloth, or make a sachet. It is also carried for protection, and the herb smoldered on charcoal aids in sharpening psychic powers, particularly when scrying.
Eucalyptus
The leaves are used to stuff healing poppets and are carried to maintain good health. To relieve colds, ring green candles with the leaves and pods and burn them to the socket, visualizing the person (or yourself) as being completely healthy. Also hang a small branch or twig of eucalyptus over the sick bed. String the immature (green) pods on green thread and wear to help heal sore throats. Placed beneath the pillow, the pods guard against colds. The leaves are also carried for protection.
Evening Primrose
Rich in GLA, vitamins and minerals. Excellent for face and body massage, especially to combat dry, skin and eczema. A nerve tonic, Hormonal balancer, good for menstrual problems and for balancing the effects of menopause.
Fennel
Grown around the home, fennel confers protection. Wearing a piece of fennel in the left shoe will prevent wood ticks from biting your legs. Fennel is also hung up at windows and doors to ward off evil spirits, and the seeds can be carried for the same reason. Fennel is used in purification sachets, as well as healing mixtures.
Fern
Rain Making, Protection, Luck, Riches, Eternal Youth, Health, Exorcism
Figwort
Hung from the neck, the figwort keeps the wearer healthy and protects against the evil eye. The plant is also smoked over Midsummer fires and then hung in the home for its protective powers.
Frankincense
A sacred, purifying scent used to cleanse the body, aura, and environment of all negative influences. Promotes a meditative state. Sun energy. Opens the crown chakra and has a healing affect on infections, and viruses. Revitalizes dry and/or aging skin. Helps with asthma and bronchial infections.
Garlic
Garlic was once worn to guard against the plague. It is still used to absorb diseases. Simply rub fresh, peeled cloves of garlic onto the afflicted part of the body, then throw into running water An old spell utilized garlic in protection against hepatitis. To do this, simply wear thirteen cloves of garlic at the end of cord around the neck for thirteen days. On the last day, in the middle of the night, walk to a corner of an intersection of two streets, remove the necklace throw it behind you, and run home with out looking back. Garlic is also extremely protective Sailors carry some while on board ship to protect against its wreckage. Soldiers wore garlic as a defense in the middle ages, vvbile Roman soldiers ate it to give them courage. It is placed in the home to guard against the intrusion of evil, to keep out robbers and thieves, and is hung over the door to repel envious people. Garlic is especially protective in new homes - Worn, garlic guards against foul weather (mountaineers wear it) as well as monsters, and it also shields you from the blows of your enemies. When evil spirits are about, bite into garlic to send them away, or sprinkle powdered garlic on the floor (if you don't mind smelling it for some time). Garlic is also placed beneath children's pillows to protect them while asleep, and brides once carried a clove of garlic in the' pocket for good luck and to keep evil far from her on her big day. Rubbed onto pots and pans before cooking in them garlic removes negative vibrations, which might otherwise contaminate the food. When eaten, garlic acts as a lust inducer, and when a magnet or lodestone, is rubbed with garlic it loses its powers.
Geranium
Balances the mind and body. Calms and stabilizes the emotions. Astringent, Good healing oil for all skin types. Helps to relieve eczema and psoriasis. Repels insects and negative thought forms and environments. Diuretic. Good as a massage oil for cellulite.
Ginger
Eating ginger before performing spells will lend them power, since you have been 'heated up' by the ginger. It is especially true of love spells, in which ginger is much-used. Whole ginger roots are planted an grown to attract money, or the powdered root is sprinkled into pockets or on money for this purpose. Ginger is also used in success spell or to ensure the success of a magica operation. In the Pacific the Dobu islanden make much use of ginger in their magic They chew it and spit it at the 'seat' of an illness to cure it, and also spit chewed ginger at an oncoming storm, while at sea, to halt it.
Ginseng
The root is carried to attract love as well as to guard one's health, to draw money, and to ensure sexual potency. Ginseng will also bring beauty to all w carry it. Burn ginseng to ward off evil spirits and to break hexes and curses. A tea of ginseng is used as a powerful lust-inducing drink, whether alone or mixed with other like herbs. Hold a ginseng root in your hands, visualize your wish into the root, and throw it into running water. Or, carve your wish onto a root and toss into the water. Ginseng can be a substitute for the mandrake
Gotu Kola
Use in meditation incenses. Burn small amount prior to (but not during) meditation.
Grape
Fertility, Garden Magic, Mental Powers, Money
Grapefruit
Refreshing and uplifting. Brings renewed energy. Antiseptic to the skin. Tones all bodily tissues and helps *erase* cellulite. Antidepressant.
Grass
Psychic Powers, Protection
