Herbs, Plants & Oils
Q - Z
Raspberry
The brambles (branches) of red raspberry are hung up at doors and windows for protection. This is also done when a death has occurred, so that flu spirit won't reenter the house once it has left. Raspberry is served as a love inducing food, and the leaves are carried by pregnant women to alleviate the pain of pregnancy and childbirth.
Rhubarb
Wear a piece of rhubarb root around the neck on a string to protect against pains in the stomach. Rhubarb pie served to a mate helps to maintain his or her fidelity.
Rice
Protection, Rain, Fertility, Money
Rose
Attracts love, confidence and healing to the heart. Activates yin or feminine energies. Calms emotions and brings understanding. Protects secrets. Christ consciousness. Soothes and heals female reproductive organs. Help to heal sore throats and cold sores. Very good for rejuvenating the skin. Awakens sensuality.
Rosemary
Rosemary, when burned, emits powerful cleansing and purifying vibrations, and so is smoldered to rid a place of negativity, especially prior to performing magic. It is one of the oldest incenses. When placed beneath the pillow rosemary ensures a good sleep and drives away nightmares. Laid under the bed it protects the sleeper from all harm. Rosemary is also hung on the porch and door-posts to keep thieves from the house and is carried to remain healthy. Placed in the bath it purifies. A chaplet of rosemary, worn, aids the memory, while the wood, smelled often, preserves youthfulness. To ensure the latter add a rosemary infusion to the bath water. Rosemary has long been used in love and lust incenses and other mixtures, and healing poppets are stuffed with rosemary to take advantage of its curative vibrations. Rosemary infusion is used to wash the hands before healing work, and the leaves mixed with juniper berries are burned in sickrooms to promote healing. If you wish to receive knowledge or the answer to a question, burn rosemary on charcoal and smell its smoke - Rosemary is also grown to attract elves, and the powdered leaves wrapped in linen 'Aoth and bound to the right arm dispel depression and make the emotions light and merry. Rosemary is generally used as a substitute for frankincense.
Sage
Sage has been utilized to ensure a long life-sometimes even immortality. This is done by eating some of the plant every day, or at least in May, for: Sage is carried to promote wisdom, He who would live for aye Must eat sage in May, and the leaves are used in countless healing and money spells. Attracts well-being and prosperity. Brings what is needed. To guard yourself against contracting the dreaded evil eye wear a small horn filled with sage. There are a few curious gardening tips concerning sage: first, it is bad luck to plant sage in your own garden; I stranger should be found to do the work. Second, a full bed of sage brings ill I so ensure that some other plant shares plot. Incidentally, toads love sage.
Permeates the environment and creates a barrier of protection while neutralizing the existing negativity. Sacred to Native Americans as a herb. Astringent. Helps heal skin eruptions. Good for sores, bacterial infections, bronchitis, rheumatism, arthritis, catarrh, sprains and aching muscles. Helpful for relieving depression, anxiety and exhaustion. Calms the digestion and eases menstrual cramping. *Not for use during pregnancy.
Sandalwood
Aligns all chakras, allowing healing energy to flow through and out. Sedates and relaxes. Good for meditation, healing, and manifestation practices. Aphrodisiac. Awakens sacred sensuality. Facilitates concentration. Considered to bestow holy protection. Regenerates dry/aging hair and skin.
Sarsaparilla
Sarsaparilla is mixed with cinnamon and sandalwood powder and sprinkled around the premises to draw money. It is also utilized in love spells.
Sesame
Money, Lust
Spearmint
Spearmint is used in all healing applications, especially in aiding lung diseases. Smelled, spearmint increases and sharpens mental powers. For protection while asleep. Cooling stimulant. Restores energy and balance to the system. Strengthens the nerves and muscles. As a tea, spearmint calms a nervous stomach rapidly. Deodorant and insect repellant. Relieves insomnia. Antiseptic. Helps headaches, fever, indigestion, Intestinal cramps, colic and hemorrhoids. Helps to alleviate depression.
Strawberry
Strawberries are served as a love food, and the leaves are carried for luck. Pregnant women may wish to carry a small packet of strawberry leaves to ease their pregnancy pains.
Sugar Cane
Love, Lust
Tangerine
Purification. Awakens joy, and dissolves negativity. Antiseptic and antispasmodic. assists in lymph drainage. Balances dry scalp and dandruff conditions while moisturizing hair and skin. Sedative and tonic.
Tea Tree
Nature's antiseptic. Good for use on wounds, burns, insect bites, scratches, rashes, and herpes. Relieves itch and kills germs. Good for dandruff, athlete's foot, acne, ringworm, candida and warts. Anti-fungal and anti-viral. Good as an airborne disinfectant.
Tarragon
Protection. Prevents fatigue, stimulates the appetite, relieves gastrointestinal disorders, colic and rheumatism. Anesthetic action can help toothaches. Calms nervous stomach. Antioxidant and anti-fungal. Enhances and protects health and well-being. Can stimulate menstruation when taken internally in large quantities so, *Not for therapeutic use during pregnancy.
Thyme
Courage and confidence. Helps insomnia and depression. Brings calm and balance to the 6th and 7th chakras. Accelerates the healing process and strengthens the immune system. Antibiotic, antiseptic and diuretic. Very good for lung ailments, viruses and infections. Brings relief for bladder infections. Revives the liver and circulatory system. Regulates digestion and eases indigestion. Disinfectant and insect repellent. *Not for use during pregnancy or in cases of high blood pressure.
Tobacco
Healing, Purification
Tuberose
The Mistress of the Night, awakens erotic feelings, and attracts romance. Enhances the capacity for emotional depth. Brings peace to the mind and heart. Opens the crown chakra and assists in psychic development. Attracts inspiration. Tonic for the reproductive system as well as the heart and mind.
Uva Ursa
Add to sachets designed to increase psychic powers.
Vanilla
Love, Lust, Mental Powers
Vetivert
Protection. Attracts prosperity, love and feelings of security. Awakens sensuality and repels negativity. Stimulates circulation and helps relieve arthritis and joint pain. Relaxing. Said to help lower blood pressure. Luck, Money, Anti-Theft
Violet
When the flowers are carried they offer protection against sperytis' and bring changes in luck and fortune. Mixed with lavender, they are a powerful Jove stimulant and also arouse lust. If you gather the first Violet in the season, the dearest wish will be granted Ancient Greeks wore the violet to Ilin tempers and to induce sleep.
Willow
Willow leaves are carried or used in mixtures to attract love, and the wood is used to fashion magical wands dedicated to Moon Magic. If you wish to know if you will be married in the New Year, on New Year's Eve throw your shoe or boot into a willow tree. If it doesn't catch and stay in the branches the first time, you have eight more tries. If you succeed in trapping your shoe in the tree you will be wed within 12 months-but you'll also have to shake or climb the tree to retrieve your shoe. All parts of the willow guard against evil and can be carried or placed in the home for this purpose. Knock on a willow tree ('knock on wood') to avert evil. The leaves, bark and wood of the willow are also utilized in healing spells. If you wish to conjure spirits, mix crushed willow bark with sandalwood and burn at the waning Moon outdoors. Magical brooms, espe ciafly Witch' brooms, are traditionally bound with willow branch.
Yarrow
Attracts love and calm, self confidence. Courage. Soothing to the heart. Said to stimulate hair growth, when used as shampoo. Alleviates dandruff. Astringent and anti-inflammatory. Helps to stop internal and external bleeding (helps blood to thicken). Assists in healing persistent wounds and infections. Brings healing to all mucous membranes. Calms digestive tract. Good for bringing rapid recovery from the flu. Relieves toothache.
Yerba Mate
To perform any love spells. Enhances fidelity and Lust
Yerba Santa
Yerba santa is carried to improve or to attain beauty, and the infusion is added to baths for the same reason. The leaves are added to healing incenses and are worn around the neck to ward off illnesses and wounds. It is also carried for spiritual strength, to increase psychic powers and to protect the bearer.
Ylang Ylang
Aphrodisiac. Promotes calm, peaceful relaxation. Relieves anxiety and depression. Good for insomnia and meditation. Tones and awakens the sex center. Lowers blood pressure. Restores skin and hair to a natural, balanced state of health.
Yucca
A hoop or loop of twisted yucca fibers will transmutate a person into an animal if he or she jumps through it, according to American Indian magic. An-other method instructs the magician to place a small wreath of yucca fibers on his or her head. This allows the person to assume any form desired. A cross of yucca fibers twisted together and placed on the hearth protects the house from evil. Suds made from the yucca plant are used in purifying the body before magic. If a spell to remove curses or illnesses is performed, repeat the yucca-suds bath afterward to ensure that all traces of the evil or sicknesses are removed.
