Magickal Uses of Plants

Never consume any of these herbs without first making sure they are not poisonous!

Acacia: Protection and psychic powers, friendship, money, meditation (when used as incense). Use to consecrate tools (also called Gum Arabic)
Aconite: (Also called "Wolfsbane" and "Monkshood")
Adam and Eve Roots: Love and happiness
Adder's Tongue: Healing
Agaric: Fertility
Agrimony: Protection, sleep
Ague Root: Protection
Alfalfa: Prosperity, money
Allspice: This herb is often used in spells for money or luck. Can be burned as an incense. Healing. Ruling Element: Fire. Used in health amulets. Place in a room with a sick person to help them heal and uplift their spirits. Promotes determination and energy.
Almond: Money, prosperity, wisdom
Aloe: Beauty, protection, success, peace, luck
Althea: Protection, psychic powers
Alyssum: Protection, moderating anger
Amaranth: (Cock’s comb) Repair a broken heart, healing, protection, invisibility
Anemone: Health, protection, healing
Angelica: Used in spells for protection, particularly the protection of infants and children and for visions. Also used for breaking hexes, exorcism. Ruling Element: Fire. Grow in gardens as a protection. Carry the root with you as an amulet. Burn the dried leaves in exorcism rituals
Anise: Protection, purification, awareness, joy. If kept by the bed it will prevent bad dreams. A good, general cleansing bath is made with a handful of anise seeds and a few bay leaves. A pillow of anise keeps away nightmares
Apples: Love, healing, garden magick, immortality
Apricot: Love
Arabic Gum: Purify negativity and evil
Arbutus: Exorcism, protection
Asafoetida: Exorcism, purification, protection
Ash: Protection, prosperity, sea rituals, health
Aspen: Eloquence, anti-theft
Aster: Love
Avens: Exorcism, purification, love
Avocado: Love, lust, beauty
Bachelor's Buttons: Love
Balm of Gilead: Love, manifestations, protection, healing
Bamboo: Protection, luck, hex-breaking, wishes
Banana: Fertility, potency, prosperity
Banyan: Good luck
Barley: Love, healing, protection
Basil: Primarily used in spells for love or money, but can also be used for protection. Best to carry fresh leaves in a sachet (red bag for love, green for money). Ruling Element: Fire. Healing relationships, courage, fertility, exorcism. Add to money incense, put a pinch of basil in four corners of you home at the start of each season to bring prosperity your way. It is said that if you grow basil in your garden, yell and scream at it, to make a strong plant. Flying, protection
Bayberry Bark: Happiness, money, success, wishes
Bay Leaf: Protection against evil and illness, stops interference. wisdom, protection, psychic powers, purification, healing. Burn the leaves to induce visions. Wear as an amulet to ward off negativity. Burn and scatter on the floor to purify area. Make a dream pillow of bay, and put under your bed pillow to induce inspiration and prophetic dreams. For the best power do this with the full moon in "Scorpio". Write a wish on a "bay leaf" with "dragons blood ink" for a powerful outcome. Healing, purification, strength
Bean: Protection, exorcism, wart charming, reconciliations, potency, love
Bedstraw: Love
Beech: Wishes
Beet: Love
Belladonna: (Poisonous) Astral projection
Benzoin: Purification, prosperity
Bergamot: Used in dream pillows for prosperity, fortune. Used to dream of finances, lottery numbers or a change in careers
Be-Still: Luck
Betony: Protection, purification, love
Birch: Cleansing. New beginnings, birth, protection, exorcism, purification
Bistort: Psychic powers, fertility
Bittersweet: Protection, healing
Blackberry: Healing, money, protection
Black Cohosh: Love, courage, protection, potency
Black Hellebore: (Poisonous) Protection
Black Salt: Used in banishing and binding rituals, bothersome neighbors, used to remove negative energies from items and remove hexes and other harmful or negative energies. Cleanse your tools in black salt and water and wash in a bath of sea salt to purify the item and allow in only positive energies. Used in filling “Binding Poppets” for a powerful outcome. Place a black candle in a pile of black salt for Samhain remembrance rituals, sprinkle ouija boards with black salt before use
Bladderwrack: Protection, sea spells, wind spells, money, psychic powers
Bleeding Heart: Love
Blessed Thistle: Carry on you in a sachet for protection from negative forces. Ruling Element: Fire. Brings spiritual and financial blessings. carried in an amulet bag for joy, energy, vitality, and protection. men who carry thistle become better lovers, incense for protection and to counteract hexing. Thistle can be grown in the garden to ward of those dreaded vegetable thieves, and a bowl of fresh thistle will give off such good strengthening energies that it is the perfect thing to have in a sickroom. Thistle is used to make magick wands for spirit conjuring and magickal walking sticks. In England, the wizards of old were said to select the tallest thistle and use it as a wand or walking stick.
Bloodroot: Love, protection, purification
Bluebell: Luck, truth
Blueberry: Protection
Blue Flag: Money
Bodhi: Fertility, protection, wisdom, meditation
Boneset: Protection, exorcism
Borage: Courage, psychic powers
Bracken: Healing, rune magick, prophetic dreams
Brazil Nut: Love
Briony: Image magick, money, protection
Bromeliad: Protection, money
Broom: Purification, protection, wind spells, divination
Buchu: Psychic powers, prophetic dreams
Buckeyes: Very lucky, attracts money and wealth, soothes arthritis, good for divination
Buckthorn: Protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
Buckwheat: Money, protection
Burdock: Protection, healing
Cabbage: Luck
Cactus: Protection, chastity
Calamus Root: Small pieces of this root are carried to bring luck. Also, the powdered root is often used in spells for healing, either as an incense or in a sachet. Ruling Element: Water. Luck, healing, money, protection
Calendula: See marigold
Camellia: Riches
Camphor: Prophecy in dreams, chastity, health, divination
Caper: Potency, Lust, Luck
Caraway: Protection, passion. Add to love sachets and charms to attract a lover (physical sense). Carry the seeds to strengthen memory. Especially powerful to "gemini's". Protection, lust, health, anti-theft, mental powers
Carnation: Protection, strength, healing
Cardamon: Lust, love
Carob: Protection, health
Carrot: Fertility, lust
Cascara Sagrada: Legal matters, money, protection
Cashew: Money
Castor: Protection
Catnip: Power, courage, makes fierce and vengeful in battle, captures love and happiness. cat magick, familiars, joy, friendship, love. Incense is used in consecration of tools. Chewed by warriors for fierceness in battle. Large dried leaves are powerful markers in magickal books. Give to your cat to create a psychic bond. Cat magick, love, beauty, happiness
Cattail: Lust
Cedar: Purification and healing. used in dream pillows to help with religious concerns and help one attain a connection to the divine. Healing, purification, money, protection
Celandine: Protection, escape, happiness, legal matters
Celery: Mental powers, lust, psychic powers
Centaury: Snake removing
Chamomile: Marriage proposals, luck, gambling, prevents lightning strikes. Good as a meditation incense, for centering, peace, sprinkle in your home for protection, healing, money. Meditation, relaxation, prosperity. Use in prosperity charms to draw money. Burn as a relaxation incense for meditation. Money, sleep, love, purification
Cherry: Love, divination
Chestnut: Love
Chickweed: Fertility, love
Chicory: Removing obstacles, invisibility, favors, frigidity
Chili Pepper: Fidelity, hex breaking, love
China Berry: Luck
Chrysanthemum: Protection
Cinchona: Luck, Protection
Cinnamon: Use in money drawing spells. Also aids in healing, especially digestive problems. Ruling element: fire. Spirituality and healing, cleansing. Spiritual quests, augmenting power, love, passion, success, psychic work, healing, cleansing. Used in dream pillows to increase psychic awareness and prosperity. Will stimulate and excite the passions of the male. Mix with myrrh for a good general propose incense. Tie 3 cinnamon sticks together with a green ribbon and hang on front door of business to bring customers. Spirituality, success, healing, power, psychic powers, lust protection, love
Cinquefoil: Carried by witches for protection. The five-pointed leaves symbolize love, money, health, power and wisdom. Ruling Element: Fire. Money, protection, prophetic dreams, sleep
Citron: Psychic powers, healing
Clary Sage: Used in dream pillows to help increase peacefulness and deep dreams
Cloth of Gold: Understand animal languages
Cloves: Banishes evil, gaining whatever is sought, clears the head, friendship. money and protection, cleansing. Exorcism, love
Clover: Money, love and luck, fairies. Protection, fidelity, exorcism, success
Club Moss: Protection, power
Coconut: Purification, protection, chastity
Collander: Dispel negativity, protection, money, incense against gossip, vision, cleansing.
Coltsfoot: Wealth and prosperity. Love, visions
Columbine: Courage, love
Comfrey Leaf: For money, safe traveling, healing
Copal: Love, purification
Coriander: Primarily used is love (& lust!) spells. Also, coriander seeds are often carried for healing. Ruling Element: Fire. Protection of home, peace, good in ritual drinks, incenses for longevity and love, security. Love, health, healing
Corn: Protection, luck, divination. I use corn when making offerings for taking things from the forest
Cornflower: Psyches
Cotton: Luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magick
Cowslip: Healing, youth, treasure finding
Crocus: Love, visions
Cubeb: Love
Cuckoo-flower: Fertility, lover
Cucumber: Chastity, healing, fertility
Cumin: Protection, fidelity, exorcism
Curry: Protection
Cyclamen: Fertility, protection, happiness, lust
Cypress: Longevity, healing, comfort, protection
Daffodil: Love, fertility, luck
Daisy: Lust, luck
Damiana: These leaves are considered an aphrodisiac and are often used in spells to awaken lustful feelings. Burned as an incense, it is said to induce visions. Ruling Element: Fire, good luck, divination, dreams. This can also be used as an herb in love spells
Dandelion Leaf: Summons spirits, dreams, clairvoyancy, purification, divination, welcoming, messages, wishes, calling spirits
Date Palm: Fertility, potency
Datura: Hex breaking, sleep, protection
Deerstongue: Lust, psychic powers
Devils Bit: Exorcism, love, protection, lust
Devil's Shoestring: Protection, luck, bring back love, make a person stop bothering you, invisibility. To attain & keep employment, gain control at your work environment. Good luck for job search. Power in the work place, employment, gambling, power
Dill: Protection, money, lust, luck
Dittany of Crete: Manifestations, astral projection
Dock: Healing, fertility, money
Dodder: Love, divination, knot magick
Dogbane: Love
Dogwood: Wishes, protection
Dragon's Blood: (Resin) Energy, protection, purification. You will know if you have the real thing, if it burns pinkish/red smoke. Used in the Drudic ritual "The Pelan Tan" during Samhain. Put a pinch in with your magickal tools, to keep unwanted eyes away and to increase the potency of other items. Use in "binding" spells to resemble human blood. Love, Protection, exorcism, potency
Dulse: Lust, harmony
Dutchmans Breeches: Love
Ebony: Protection, Power
Echinacea: Strengthening spells
Edelweiss: Invisibility, bullet-proofing
Elder Flowers: Sacred to the "White Lady" and midsummer solstice. The Druids used it to both bless and curse, Burn at "Beltane" to comfort the Fae. These small tiny yellowish flowers carry a strong pungent smell. Exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
Elecampane: Love, protection, psychic powers
Elm: Love
Endive: Lust, love
Eryngo: Travelers luck, peace, lust, love
Eucalyptus: Healing, protection. Used in dream pillows for health, purification, and to chase away negative energy
Euphorbia: Purification, protection
Eyebright: Carry to see the future clearly and to increase physic powers, particularly clairvoyance. Ruling Element: Air
Fennel: Protection, healing, purification
Fennel Seed: Prevents curses, demonic possessions and negative problems. Purification, protection, healing, money
Fenugreek: Money
Fern: Rain making, protection, luck, riches, eternal youth, health, exorcism
Feverfew: Protection
Fig: Used in love and fertility spells. Also used for divination
Figwort: Protection and health
Flax: Flax can be used in spells and charms to attract money. Use in beauty spells and healing spells. Helps with psychic powers and is protecting
Flax Seed: Used to keep peace at home (put some seeds in a bowl to soak up negative energy). Also, carry flax seeds in your wallet or purse to attract money. Ruling Element: Fire
Fleabane: Chastity. Use for exorcism or for protection
Foxglove: (Poisonous) Protection
Frankincense: The tears, or resin, are used, the word "tears" comes from the tears of sap created when a frankincense tree is cut. This resin can be burned as incense and will purify an area. Use in pillows for spiritual dreams, psychic encounters, religious experiences or to help with deep breathing. A protective herb. Perfect for use in exorcism. Removes negative energies. Consecration, purification, spirituality
Fumitory: Money, exorcism
Fuzzy Weed: Love and hunting
Galangal Root: Use galangal root in spells to double your money, win a jury trial, or to break a hex. They are also used in spells for sex and lust, protection, health and to boost psychic powers
Gardenia: Love, peace, healing, spirituality
Garlic: Warding off evil, drawing customers to business, visions, healing. protection and healing. good weather, courage, exorcism. Lust, anti-theft
Gentian: Love, power
Geranium: Protection, fertility, love, health
Giant Vetch: Fidelity
Ginger: Love, wealth, success, money, and power
Ginger Root: Fast results as a love potion, money, success, power.
Ginseng: Love, beauty, desire, lust, wishes, healing, protection
Goats Rue: Health and healing
Goldenrod: Divination, money
Golden Seal: Healing, money
Gorse: Money, protection
Gotu Kola: Meditation
Gourd: Protection
Grain: Protection
Grains of Paradise: Love, luck, lust, money, wishes
Grape: Fertility, garden magick, mental powers, wealth
Grass: Protection, psychic powers
Ground Ivy: Divination
Groundsel: Healing, health
Gum Arabic: See "Acacia"
Hawthorn: Chastity, fertility, fishing, happiness
Hawthorn Berries: Also known as the May tree. The small berries are wrinkled and red and perfect for adding to your Beltane altar for May day offerings. Add to amulets for power & strength of the ancient Druids
Hazel: Anti-lightning, fertility, luck, protection, wishes, heal all, gamble successfully
Heather: Use in protection spells, especially protection against violent crimes. Heather flowers are also used in spells for aid in real estate transactions. Ruling Element: Water. Protection, rain making, luck
Heliotrope: Exorcism, healing, invisibility, prophetic dreams, wealth
Hemlock: (Poisonous) Destroys lust
Hemp: Healing, love, meditation, visions
Henbane: (Poisonous) No known uses
Henna: Healing
Hibiscus Flower: Divination, dreams, love, lust
Hickory: Legal matters
High John: Gambling, happiness, love, money, protection, psychic abilities, success, war
Holly: Anti-lightning, balance, dream magick, luck, protection
Holy Thistle: Purification, hex breaking, honesty, money
Honeysuckle: Money, protection, psychic powers
Hops: Used in dream pillows to produce deep sleep with dreams emphasizing health concerns. Wonderful in healing sachets and incenses. A pillow of the dried green to gold "fruit" like buds, helps bring on sleep. String a bunch of the fresh buds and hang in bedroom of sick person, for improvement in health. Healing, Sleep
Horehound: Exorcism, healing, mental powers, protection
Horse Chestnut: Healing, money
Horseradish: Exorcism, purification
Horsetail: Fertility, snake charming
Houndstongue: Keeps dogs quiet
Houseleek: Love, luck, protection
Huckleberry: Dream magick, hex-breaking, luck, protection
Hyacinth: Happiness, love, protection
Hydrangea: Breaks hexes
Hyssop: Protection, purification
Indian Paintbrush: Love
Iris: Purification, wisdom
Irish Moss: Luck, money, protection. Place it with your money to keep it safe
Ivy: Chastity, fidelity, healing, protection
Jasmine Flower: Psychic dreams, love potion, money, divination, sleep. Good luck in love and wealth. Aphrodisiac. Alleviates depression, and tension. Raises self-esteem. Opens the heart chakra and stimulates clarity of thought. Enables one to lucid dream, when it is used before sleeping. Mix with lavender for an incredibly powerful dream pillow
Jobs Tears: Healing, luck, wishes
Joe-Pye Weed: Love, respect
Juniper: Used in dream pillows as an herb of purification and protection and helpful in spirit quests. Anti-theft, exorcism, health, love
Juniper Berries: Carry juniper berries to help you lose weight. Juniper is also used in spells for protection from theft, and in love spells. Ruling Element: Fire, a good incense ingredient. Used with Thyme in Druid incense for visions. Juniper berries strewn at the door discourages thieves. The mature berries can be strung and hung in the house to attract love. Crush berries in a mortar to release their aroma, mix with cedar or pine needles for a wonderful Winter Solstice incense: burn on charcoal tabs
Kava Kava Root: Protection from harm while traveling, heaven at death. Visions, protection, luck
Knotweed: Binding, health
Lady's Mantle: Love
Lady's Slipper: Protection
Larch: Protection, preventing theft
Larkspur: Health and protection
Lavender Flowers: A must for love spells to attract men. Also, a sachet of lavender flowers will help ease headaches, induce sleep and foster peace. Ruling Element: Air, love and money spells, pain relief, attract good spirits. long life, peace, wishes, protection, purification. Used in dream pillows for calming, reaching the depths of the subconscious mind, health and love concerns. Thrown into midsummer fires as a sacrifice to the gods. Put 2 handfuls of lavender flowers into a square of cheese cloth and tie with a purple ribbon use this aromatic washcloth in place of your usual one. Love, beauty, protection, sleep, chastity, longevity, purification, happiness, peace
Leek: Love, protection, exorcism
Lemon: Purification, love, blessings. Longevity, friendship
Lemon Balm: Use these leaves in spells for money and success. An easy herb to grow, it will attract lots of helpful bees to your garden. Ruling Element: Water. Love, healing
Lemongrass: Repel snakes, lust, psychic powers
Lemon Verbena Leaf: To break up lovers, success in the arts, drive away evil. Purification, love
Lettuce: Chastity, protection, love, divination, sleep
Licorice: Love, lust, fidelity
Life Everlasting Flowers: Purify, protection. Use in charm bags to keep young. Burn at Midsummer to honor the maiden. Bundle flowers with white ribbons and put under pillow to give sweet dreams. Longevity, health, healing
Lilac: Used in dream pillows to recall past lives. Exorcism, protection
Lily: Protection, Breaking love spells
Lily of the Valley: (Poisonous) Mental powers, happiness
Lime: Healing, love, protection
Linden: Protection, immortality, luck, love, sleep
Liquidamber: Protection
Liverwort: Protection, love
Looestrife: Peace, protection
Lotus: Protection, lock-opening
Lovage: Love
Loveseed: Love, friendship
Lucky Hand: Employment, luck, protection, money, travel
Mace: Psychic powers, mental powers
Maguey: Lust
Magnolia: Fidelity
Maidenhair: Beauty, love
Male Fern: Luck, love
Mallow: Love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake (Mayapple): Exorcism, fertility, love, fidelity. Place in the home for a powerful protective charm. The roots are used in image magick, as the American version (Mayapple) and the European version, resemble the limbs of humans. Grind and sprinkle in cupboards & Book of Shadows to keep away prying eyes. Protection, money, health
Maple: Love, longevity, money
Marigold (Calendula): Prophecy, the psychic, seeing magickal creatures, love, clairvoyance, dreams, business or legal affairs and renewing personal energy. Place the flower beneath the head at night to induce clairvoyant dreams. It should be gathered at noon. Gather at noon. A fresh marigold flower can be worn to court for a favorable outcome of a trial. If you place marigold in your mattress, you will have prophetic dreams and if you place it under your mattress it will make whatever you dream come true. Since the Marigold embodies the sun, it can make a person more attractive and confident. Add Marigold to your bath water to make this happen. A vase of fresh and bright marigolds in a room brings a renewed surge of life to those in the room. The leaves can eaten as a salad and a yellow dye has also been extracted from the flower, by boiling. The dried flowers are used in spells to bring prophetic dreams. Also, aids in achieving a favorable outcome in legal matters. Ruling Element: Fire. Used in pillows to dream of how to heal someone and to increase psychic and health awareness
Marjoram: Brings happiness and joy. Also, used for cleansing and protection. Before moving into your new home, sprinkle marjoram in each room (to absorb negative energy) and then sweep it away. Ruling Element: Air. love, healing. Used in dream pillows for peace and restfulness, reaching into the depths to help us connect with our psychic selves. Money
Master Wort: Strength, courage, protection
Mastic: Psychic powers, manifestations, lust
Meadow Rue: Divination
Meadowsweet: Love, divination, peace, happiness
Mesquite: Healing
Mimosa: Protection, love, prophetic dreams, purification
Mint: Money, luck and travel, healing, strength, love, lust, augment power, protection
Mistletoe: (Poisonous) Get back a love who has deserted you, solve problems. protection, fertility, healing and psychic powers, fidelity, love. Wear as a protective amulet. A good anti-lightning charm. Extinguishes fires. Hunting, health, exorcism
Molukka: Protection
Moonwort: Money, love
Moss: Luck, money
Mountain Mahogany: Anti-lightning
Mugwort: Use in spells for protection and healing. Hang mugwort over your threshold to prevent any negative forces from entering your home. Use in a dream pillow for prophetic dreams. Ruling Element: Earth, protection during travel. Used in dream pillows for psychic awareness and astral dreams, increasing visions and prophetic dreams. Clairvoyance, Scrying. Rub this herb on "Magick Mirrors" and "Crystal balls" to strengthen their powers. Add to scrying, clairvoyance and divination incenses. Use 3 tablespoons to ½ gallon spring (or rain) water to cleanse your "magickal mirrors" crystals and stones. It is used in magick as a love-divining herb. To experience interesting dreams that are said to reveal one's future, stuff a pillow with about a pound of this herb and sleep on it. Strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, astral projection
Mulberry: Protection, strength
Mullein: Also called: Hag's tapers, feltwort, candlewick plant. Carry mullein for courage and strength, or use in a sleep pillow to prevent nightmares. Ruling Element: Fire, keep away demons and nightmares while asleep, invokes spirits. In the olden days folks would use the dried leaves as Candlewicks. Used in remembrance rituals at Samhain. One is burned for each soul remembered. Carry to keep animals away from you in the woods. The powdered leaves are known as graveyard dust and are acceptable to use when such is called for in old recipes. Protection, health, love, divination, exorcism
Mustard: Fertility, protection, mental powers
Myrrh (resin): Bless objects, lift energy, spiritual growth, focus. Myrrh is used in magick for protection, peace, exorcism, healing, consecration. As an incense it can be used to deepen mediation and aid contemplation. Myrrh can be used in any ritual to the Goddess Isis, since Myrrh is a Goddess plant of the moon's sphere and is sacred to Isis. Myrrh increases the powers of other herbs when they are used in conjunction. Myrrh can also be burned so that its smoke can purify and protect an area, and the smoke can also be used to consecrate and bless objects like rings, amulets, and ritual tools. Protection, exorcism, healing, spirituality
Myrtle: Love, fertility, youth, peace, money
Nettle: Use nettle leaves to ward off negativity. Also, use in spells to ease arguments (especially within a marriage) and to increase lustfulness. Ruling Element: Fire, removes spells, prevents hexes and breaks jinxes. Protection, healing. Exorcism
Norfolk Island Pine: Protection, anti-hunger
Nutmeg: Win gambling and lotteries, luck, love, prosperity, fertility, euphoria
Nuts: Fertility, prosperity, love, luck
Oak: Protection, strength, wisdom, health, money, healing, potency, fertility, luck
Oats: Money
Olive: Healing, peace, fertility, potency, protection, lust
Onion: Protection, exorcism, healing, money, prophetic dreams, lust
Orange: Love, divination, luck, money
Orange Bergamot: Money
Orchid: Love
Oregon Grape: Money, prosperity
Orris: Love, Protection, divination
Orris Root: Powdered orris root is used to attract a lover. Also used for binding the scent of spells and potions. Ruling Element: Water. Love, protection, divination
Pansy: Love, rain magick, divination
Papaya: Love, protection
Papyrus: Protection
Parosela: Hunting
Parsley: Love, protection, purification
Passion Flower: Keeps out anger and mistrust, to be lucky in love affairs, peace. used in protection and love magick. calms and brings peace to the home. sprinkle over the doorsteps of your house or apartment to keep harm away. If you carry some of the herb in an amulet bag, you will make friends easier since it will work to increase your personal charisma making you more attractive and more likable. Place Passionflower in a dream pillow and it will help you get a good nights sleep. You can also burn it as an incense to promote understanding. Peace, sleep, friendship
Passion Fruit: See pomegranate
Patchouli: Use in spells to attract money and/or love, and to increase fertility. Ruling Element: Earth, breaks any spell, lose enemies. Used in dream pillows for sexual energies and prosperity. Attraction.
Pea: Money, love
Peach: Love, exorcism, longevity,. fertility, wishes
Pear: Lust, love
Pecan: Money, employment
Pennyroyal: Carry in a green bag to attract money and to aid in business transactions. Also, carry pennyroyal to increase stamina during physical pursuits. Ruling Element: Fire, peace and tranquility, protect from evil in home. Put in the shoes to prevent weariness. Add to summer incenses and to prevent getting lost in the woods. Tie it to your bedpost for, not only does it keep mosquitoes away, but it is said to make one more aware and alert, and increase brain power. Brings peace between husband and wife when kept in a small bowl on a table or a dresser in the home. Carry Pennyroyal when traveling by water and never know the pangs of seasickness. Strength, protection, peace
Peony: Protection, exorcism
Pepper: Protection, exorcism
Peppermint: Increase psychic ability, visions, healing, sleep, love and purification. Purification, healing, sleep, love, psychic powers
Pepper Tree: Purification, healing, protection
Periwinkle: Love, lust, mental powers, money, protection
Persimmon: Changing sex, healing, luck
Pimento: Love
Pimpernel: Protection, health
Pine: Attunement to nature, centering, cleansing, healing, productivity, purification against illness. Brings one back into balance, and enhances connection with the natural world. Healing, fertility, protection, exorcism, money
Pineapple: Luck, money, chastity
Pipsissewa: Money, spirit calling
Pistachio: Breaking love spells
Plantain: Healing, protection, strength, snake repelling. When hung around a child's neck, prevents them from being taken by fairies
Plot Weed: Protection
Plum: Healing
Plumeria: Love
Poke: Courage, hex breaking
Pomegranate (Passion fruit): Divination, luck, wishes, wealth, fertility
Poplar: Money, flying
Poppy: Fertility, prosperity. Use the seeds in prosperity amulets. Love, sleep, money, luck, invisibility
Potato: Image magick, healing
Prickly Ash: Love
Primrose: Protection, love
Purslane: Sleep, love, luck, protection, happiness
Quassia: Love
Quince: Protection, love, happiness
Radish: Protection, lust
Ragweed: Courage
Ragwort: Protection
Raspberry Leaf: Love, protection, pregnancy/childbirth, healing, sleep
Rattlesnake Root: Protection, money
Rhubarb: Protection, fidelity
Rice: Protection, rain, fertility, money
Roots: Protection, power, divination
Rose: Love, healing, luck, protection, psychic power and divination. Used in dream pillows for warm and loving energies, and enhancing beauty and love relations. Rose is known as the herb of love. Rose oil and Rose incense are both used in love spells. If you wash your hands with rose water before mixing love potions, the potions will be stronger
Red: I love you
White: I love you not
Yellow: I love another
Moss: I admire you from afar
Pink: My love for you is innocent
Orange: I love you vigorously
Purple: I will love you forever
Wild: I love you because you are fair and innocent
Rose Hips: Brings good luck, calls in good spirits. You can wear Rosehips as beads to bring love to you
Rosemary: Love, power, healing sleep. Improve memory, purification, youth, protection, intellect. A good protective sachet for boat and ship passengers. Make a fresh wreath of rosemary for protection, hang in the home. Burn Rosemary and Juniper for a recuperation incense. Use for remembrance in Samhain rituals. Protection, love, lust, mental powers, exorcism, purification, healing, sleep, youth
Rose Petals: Another must for love spells. Use in sachets, potpourri, incense, teas, baths, and so on. Use red petals for sexual love-magick, and pink petals for family love-magick (to calm emotions, sooth stress). Ruling Element: Water. Friendship, luck, protection, psychic power and divination. Add Rose bud petals to bath water to conjure up a lover. Put red rose petals in a red velvet bag and pin this under your clothes to attract love
Rowan: Psychic powers, healing, protection, power, success
Rue: Healing, health, mental powers, exorcism, love
Rye: Love, fidelity
Saffron: Love, healing, happiness, wind raising, lust, strength, psychic powers
Sage: Carry for wisdom, protection, and long life. Also, burn sage to cleanse negativity from rooms, furniture, and anything received second-hand. Ruling Element: Air, wishes, increase lust. protection and wisdom. Fertility. Burn to purify a ritual area or magickal tools. Used as a main ingredient in smudge sticks and herb bundles. Used for fertility, longevity, wishes, wisdom, protection, money attraction, purification, healing, and health magick. It is said that if you eat Sage you will become more wise and also immortal. Sage is often an herb used at handfastings since it will help bring about a long life and domestic virtue for the happy couple. Can be added to almost any healing spell. A good healing amulet may be made by putting a clove of Garlic, a bit of Eucalyptus and Cinnamon, two pinches of Sage and one pinch of Saffron into a small blue bag. This bag can then be worn or carried to promote healing. Sage can be used for attracting money and for wish manifestations. Immortality, longevity, wisdom, protection, wishes
Sagebrush: Purification, exorcism
Sandalwood: Burn powdered sandalwood for purification, protection and to increase psychic visions. Ruling Element: Water, exorcism, protection, wishes, spirituality, protection, healing, exorcism, spirituality, wishing
Sarsaparilla: Love, money
Sassafras: Health, money
Savory/Summer: Mental powers
Senna: Love
Sesame: Money, lust
Shallot: Purification
Shepherd's Purse: Healing, childbirth
Skullcap: Calms emotions and promotes peace and clear thinking. Also used in spells to ensure a lover's fidelity. Ruling Element: Water, inspires others to give you gifts and money. Love, fidelity, peace
Skunk Cabbage: Legal matters
Slippery Elm: Halts gossip
Sloe: Exorcism, protection
Snakeroot: Luck, money
Snakeroot/Black: Love, lust, money
Snapdragon: Protection
Solomon's Seal: Protection, exorcism
Sorrel Wood: Healing, health
Southern Wood: Love, lust, protection
Spanish Moss: Protection
Spearmint Leaves: Healing, love, protection from vertigo spells. Mental powers
Spider Wort: Love
Spikenard: Love
Squill: Money, protection, hex breaking
Star Anise: Psychic powers, luck
Stillengia: Psychic Powers
St. Johns Wort: Happiness, heal, strength, courage, love, protection, divination. Celtic tradition held that the Druids wore it in battle for invincibility. Burn to exorcise negative spirits. Health, power, protection, strength, love, divination, happiness
Straw: Luck, Image magick
Strawberry: Love, luck
Sugarcane: Love, lust
Sumbul: Love, luck, health, psychic powers
Sunflower: Fertility, wishes, health, wisdom
Sweetgrass: Calling spirits
Sweetpea: Friendship, chastity, courage, strength
Sweet Woodruff: Used in dream pillows to protect against nightmares and enhance a relaxing sleep
Tamarind: Love
Tamarisk: Exorcism, protection
Tansy: Health, longevity
Tea: Riches, courage, strength
Thistle: Strength, protection, hex breaking, healing
Thyme: A healing herb. Use thyme in spells to promote good health, physical energy and a good night's sleep. Ruling Element: Water. healing psychic powers, fairies, courage. A pillow stuffed with thyme cures nightmares. Health, healing, sleep, psychic powers, love, purification, courage
Ti: Protection, healing
Toadflax: Protection, hex breaking
Toadstool: Rain making
Tobacco: Healing, purification, use as an offering, money
Tonka Beans: For good luck. Through a tonka bean into any philtre to ensure that your wish comes true. Ruling Element: Water, love, strength, makes love endure, draws money and customers
Turmeric: Purification
Turnip: Protection, ending relationships
Uva Ursa: Psychic workings
Valerian Root: Sleep, love, purification, protection, black magick, harmony, calming. Use the fresh herb in spells of love, also to get fighting couples together. Used in the purification bath sachet. Use in love spells and to keep fighting couples together. Use in a bath sachet for a calming effect
Vanilla: Love, lust, mental powers
Venus Flytrap: Protection, love
Vervain: An all-purpose herb. Use in spells for love, money, protection, purification and healing. Also, carry to increase psychic powers. Ruling Element: Earth, sleep, love potions, youth. Used in dream pillows for prophetic dreams and ridding the sleeper of nightmares. Love, protection, purification, peace, money, youth, chastity, sleep, healing
Vetivert: Love, hex breaking, luck, money, anti-theft
Violet: Spirituality and protection. Animal guides. luck, love, lust, wishes, peace, healing
Wahoo: Hex breaking, courage, success
Walnut: Health, mental powers, infertility, wishes
Wax Plant: Protection
Wheat: Fertility, money
Willow: Love and divination. Protection, healing
Wintergreen: Promotes good health and healing. Also used in hex-breaking and purification spells Ruling Element: Water. Protection, healing, hex breaking
Winters Bark: Success
Witch Grass: Happiness, lust, love, exorcism
Witch Hazel: Protection, chastity, healing the heart
Wolfsbane: See "Aconite"
Wood Betony: Love, protection, purification
Wood Rose: Luck
Woodruff: Victory, protection, money
Wolfs Bane: Protection, invisibility
Wormwood: Psychic, removes hexes, black magick and voodoo. Throw onto fires on Samhain to gain protection from bad spirits roaming the night. One of the major ingredients in Absinthe. Burn in incense to raise spirits. Psychic powers, protection, love, calling spirits
Yarrow: Carry yarrow to attract a lover and to grant you courage. Also, use in spells to find a long-lost friend or family member. Ruling Element: Water. Psychic abilities, divination. The tea drunk prior to divination will enhance one's powers of perception. A powerful incense additive for divination and love spells. Also associated with weather divination. Love, Clairvoyance. Used in marriage charms, as it has the power to keep a couple together happily for seven years. Worn as an amulet it wards of negativity. A tea made of 1 tablespoon to 8 ounces of water will enhance one's powers of perception. Held in the hand it stops all fear. Nicknamed "A witches best friend". Courage, love, psychic powers, exorcism
Yellow Evening Primrose: Hunting
Yerba Mate: Fidelity, love, lust
Yerba Santa: Beauty, healing, psychic powers, protection
Yew: Raising the dead
Yohimbe: Love, lust
Yucca: Transmutation, protection, purification

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