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"...plants that reach for the sun have a strong solar quality, which lends itself to workings of healing, happiness, and joy.
Plants that are poisonous or develop strong root systems and return year after year have a saturnine quality, lending themselves to necromancy, cursing, and dark spirit work.
Plants with barbs, thorns, or irritants are martial in nature and are useful for defense and success in competitive areas.
If a plant has large, fragrant blossoms, it can be said to possess a venereal nature, potent in love, friendship, and beauty.
Plants that hold watery or milky substances or enjoy the shade have a lunar quality, useful in divination and foresight.
Plants with complex, small leaves or petals that flutter in the wind often have a mercurial nature, useful for learning, communication, and trade.
Plants that produce prolific nuts or seeds are connected to the planetary force of Jupiter, useful for success, wealth, and influence."
- Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner by Roger J. Horne
Protection Oil
I recently started up my practice again and the first thing I made was a protection candles and some oils. I haven't shared any witchy things in a while so here is how I make protection oil.
You can use any oil, I prefer to use olive oil. I also put red pepper and a rose thorn in there because I like them. I would also have added egg shell powder but I didn't have any. You can tailor this to what ever you have one hand. The world is your oyster do whatever the fuck you want. You can wear this oil, lock mirrors, windows, add to spells, ect... Personally I like to put it on before I do spell work. Stay protected witches !
Olive Oil
Salt - purification, cleansing
Sage - protection, hex breaking
Red pepper - baneful protection
Parsley - protection, purification
Thyme - protection
Black salt - protection, dispel's negative energy
Rose thorn - repellent for negative energy, baneful protection
Tigers' eye - protection
A petition with intentions
Edit :
I forgot to add this the first time.
Do not put fresh herbs or shit that has water in it into your carrier oil. It can create botulism. Make sure everything you add is dried.
Herb and Flora Properties
A
Acacia: Exorcism, banishing, money, love, to be burned for alter offering, aiding in psychic powers, meditation, protection
Acorn: Strength, money and wealth, protection
Adam and Eve Roots: (TOXIC) Attract love, happiness
Adders Tongue: Healing, divination
African Violet: Protection, promote spirituality
Agaric: (TOXIC) Encourage fertility
Agrimony: Protection, banish negative energy-entities, reverse spells, break hexes, promotes sleep, psychic protection, returns spells to their senders
Ague Root: Protection, break hexes
Alder: Whistles entice the Elemental earth, water magic, strength
Alfalfa: Abundance, prosperity, money, anti-hunger, frugality, providence, place in the kitchen
Alkanet: Repel negativity, attract prosperity, purification All Heal- Mental powers
Allspice: Money, luck, healing, prosperity when burned, courage, magickal power, love, lust
Almond: Prosperity, success in business ventures, money, wisdom, love, anger management
Aloe: Protection, luck, money, repel evil, healing, beauty, success, peace
Aloes, Wood: Love, spirituality, money, protection Althea - protection, psychic power, attract good spirits
Alyssum: Protection, calm anger
Amaranth: Healing, protection, healing heartbreak, invisibility Amber: Healing
Ambergris: Lust, sex Anemone - health, protection, healing
Angelica: Protection, exorcism, remove curses and hexes, healing, visions, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house, increases life energy bringing warmth of Fire element, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house
Anise: Divination, psychic awareness, joy, dreams, luck, love, enthusiasm, Winter Solstice, entices the spirits to aid in spells
Apple: Love, healing, garden blessing, buried in the garden on Samhain as food for the departing spirits, to be shared with one you love, immortality, happiness, luck, broken heart, spirit food, the goddess
Apricot: Love
Arabic Gum: Purification, spirituality, protection
Arbutus: Exorcism, protection
Arrowroot: Protection
Asafetida: Purification, protection, exorcism
Ash: Prosperity, protection, healing, love, wands, leaves for prophetic dreams, sea rituals, longevity, peace, luck, purification, study, enhances magic, besom
Aspen: Protection, eloquence, anti-theft
Aster: Love
Astragalus: Fortification, Strength
Avens: Exorcism, love, purification, Exorcism, purification, love
Avocado: Beauty, love, lust
B
Bachelors Buttons: Love
Balm of Gilead: (TOXIC) Love, manifestations, ease a broken heart, protection, healing, love
Bamboo: Protection, luck, break hexes, wishes
Banana: Prosperity, fertility, potency
Banyan: Luck, happiness
Barley: Healing, protection, love
Basil: Exorcism, love, protection, prosperity, wealth, repels negative energy, sympathy, wealth, flying, courage, business, fertility, healing relationships, ensure faithfulness on masses
Bay: Psychic powers, protection, healing, purification, strength, wish magick, wisdom, good luck, fertility, banish negativity, energy, insight, divination, victory, prosperity, employment, mental power, burn for psychic powers
Bayberry: Employment
Bean: Love, protection, exorcism, wart charming, reconciliation, potency
Beech: Creativity, wishes, fertility, balance mental health
Beet: Love
Belladonna: (TOXIC) Visions, astral protection, divination
Benzoin: Purification, prosperity, astral projection, confidence, protection
Bergamot: Success, money, confidence, protection, prosperity, employment, unwanted advances
Be-Still: (TOXIC) Luck
Betony: Love, healing, burn at Litha for purification, protection; place under pillow to be rid of nightmares; sprinkle around doors to ward off despair, psychic awareness
Birch: Purification, protection, exorcism, cleansing, beauty, catalyst, blessing, health, besom, beginnings
Bistort: Fertility, psychic powers
Bittersweet: (TOXIC) Protection, healing, broken heart
Black Cohosh: Courage, love, protection, potency
Black Hellebore: (TOXIC) Invisibility, exorcism, astral projection
Black pepper: Courage, protection
Black Snakeroot - Love, lust, money
Blackberry: Healing, protection, prosperity, money, pies for Lughnassadh
Blackthorn: Returns evil to it's sender
Bladderwrack: Psychic powers, protection, money, water or sea spells, wind spells, travel, psychic Clarity
Bleeding Heart: Love
Blessed Thistle: Protection, animal healing, abundance
Bloodroot: (TOXIC) Love, purification, protection
Bluebell: Luck, truth
Blueberry: Protection
Blue Cohosh Root: Courage, balance, protection
Blue Flag: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, success in business
Bodhi: Wisdom, fertility, protection, meditation
Boneset: Protection, exorcism
Borage: Courage, psychic powers, carry leaves for protection
Bracken: Protection, healing, fertility, prophetic dreams, rune magick
Brazil Nut: Love
Briar: Add to tea for clairvoyant dreams, protection
Briony: (TOXIC) Mage magick, protection, money
Bromeliad: Protection, money
Broom: (TOXIC) Divination, wind spells, purification of the circle, hung indoors for protection
Bryony: (TOXIC) Pleasure, reveal secrets
Buchu: Prophetic dreams, psychic powers
Buckeye: Luck, divination, money, wealth, prosperity, gambling
Buckthorn: Protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
Buckwheat: Protection, money
Burdock: Protection, healing, wards off negativity, purifies, protects (washing floors or dried root on red string around the neck), happy home, clears space & holds the space safe, spirit of north
C
Cabbage: Luck
Cactus: Protection, chastity
Calamus: (TOXIC) Luck, protection, healing, money, purification
Calendula: Stress management , opening to the 3rd Chakra, helps energy move outward from center of body extending in all directions
Camellia: Prosperity, wealth, luxury
Camphor: (TOXIC) Healing, divination, chastity, past lives, prophetic dreams, purification, psychic awareness, unwanted advances
Caper: Lust, love, potency
Caraway: Protection, lust, healing, mental powers, repel negativity, psychic healing, vitality, energy, magickal power, anti-theft
Cardamon: Lust, love, burned in love spells and in love sachets
Carnation: Protection, strength, healing, altar offering to the goddess, strength
Carob: Protection, health
Carrot: Fertility, lust, vision, the God aspect
Cascara Sagrada: Protection, money, legal matters
Cashew: Prosperity, money, communication
Cassia: Psychic awareness, spirituality
Castor: (TOXIC) Protection, repel negativity
Catnip: Love, beauty, happiness, power, courage, positive cat magik, friendship, joy, anger management, depression management, familiars
Cat Tail: Lust
Cayenne: Exorcism, healing
Cedar: Healing, purification, money, protection, cleansing, courage, stopping sexual harassment, prosperity, aura field and space
Celandine: Joy, protection, happiness, escape, legal matters, depression management
Celery: Lust, psychic powers, mental clarity, concentration, peace
Centaury: Snake removing
Chamomile: Purification, tranquility, money, sleep-rest (tea), love, luck, meditation, prosperity, incense for the God, gambling, hex breaking, legal matters, peace, dreams, dexterity, protection
Chapparal: Fire element rituals, Protection, Spirit of South
Cherry: Love, divination, burn chips at sabbats, creativity , victory
Chestnut: Love
Chickweed: Love, fidelity
Chicory: Favors, frugality, remove obstacles, invisibility, frigidity, liberation
Chili Pepper: Fidelity, love, break hexes
China Berry: (TOXIC) Luck, change
Chrysanthemum: (TOXIC) Protection
Cilantro: Health
Cinchona: Protection, luck
Cinnamon: Prosperity, success, spirituality, healing, lust, protection, love, psychic powers, passion, power, dreams, strength, astral projection, courage, money, purification, personal empowerment
Cinquefoil: Money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, lust, prosperity, divination dreams
Citron: Healing, eaten to increase psychic powers
Civet: Love, lust, sex
Cloth-of-Gold: Animal communication
Clove: Protection, exorcism, purification, love, money, mental clarity, burn for wealth, wards off negativity, counter spells, cleansing, divination, luck, depression management, psychic awareness, prophetic dreams, happiness, gossip
Clover: Success, protection, money, exorcism, love, fidelity, consecration, beauty, luck, youth, healing, faeries, prosperity
Club Moss: Protection, power
Coconut: Purification, protection, chastity, Water
Cohosh, Black: Courage, protection, potency, menopause
Coltsfoot: Love, psychic visions, healing, wealth, prosperity
Columbine: Courage, love
Comfrey: (TOXIC) Money, root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel, protection, stress management, safe Journeys (Worldly or through Meditation) , Winter Solstice
Copal: Love, purification, exorcism, protection, spirituality, earth element, sets sacred space, allows guides and guidance to come
Coriander: Love, health, healing, protection, longevity
Corn: Divination, protection, luck, money
Cornflower: Psychism
Cornsilk: Water element, stimulates flow
Cotton: Luck, healing, protection
Cowslip: Youth, healing, treasure finding, luck, love, psychic dreams
Crocus: Love, visions, wisdom
Cubeb: Love
Cuckoo-Flower: Love, fertility
Cucumber: Healing, fertility, chastity
Cumin: Exorcism, protection, prevents theft, fidelity, love
Curry: Protection, exorcism
Cyclamen: Fertility, protection, happiness, lust, broken heart
Cypress: Healing, protection, comfort, longevity, peace, sleep, liberation
D
Daffodil: Love, luck, fertility
Daisy: Love, lust, Luck, depression management, faeries and elves, happiness
Damiana: Divination, love, lust, sex magick, dreams, visions, psychic powers, opens door between worlds
Dandelion Leaf and Root: Purification, divination, wishes, calling spirits
Date Palm: Potency, fertility
Datura: (TOXIC) Protection, sleep, break hexes
Deerstongue: (TOXIC) Lust, psychic powers, gossip management
Devil's Bit: Love, protection, luck, exorcism
Devil's Shoestring: Protection, luck, gambling, power, employment
Dill: Love, lust, seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flowers for love
Dittany of Crete: Manifestations, astral projection
Dock: Money, healing, fertility
Dodder: Love divination, knot magic
Dogbane: Love
Dogwood: Protection, wishes
Dong Quai, Slices: Health, vitality, fire element rituals
Dragons Blood: Power, protection, exorcism, potency, love, courage, fortune, catalyst, magick power, strength, purification, stimulates action of other herbs in incense blend, stimulates movement of energy
Dulse: Harmony, lust
Dutchman's Breeches: Love
E
Ebony: Protection, power
Echinacea: Strengthening spells, health, strength, wards off negativity or undesirable energies
Edelweiss: Invisibility, bullet-proofing
Elder: (CAUTION: SEEDS ARE POISONOUS, TOXIC) Money, wishes, theft protection, exorcism, healing, prosperity, sleep, wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, do not burn the wood of elder for it is sacred to Hecate, see fairies in the trees at Litha, flowers used as an alter offering, berries for esbat wine, flowers added to candle spells directed at hecate during the new moon, cleansing, offering
Elderberries: Prosperity, protection, sleep, joy, visions, banishing, energy, ancient wisdom, contactwith elementals, invoke magic
Elderflower: Purifying, healing
Elecampane: Love, protection, psychic powers, anger management
Elm: Protection, love, attracts elves
Endive: Love, lust
Eryngo: Peace, love, lust, traveler's luck
Eucalyptus: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, joy, purification, air element rituals
Euphorbia: (TOXIC) Protection, purification
Eyebright: Joy, psychic powers, mental clarity, mental ability and clarity, visions
F
False Unicorn Root: Connection to magical realm, contains energy and intention
Fennel: Protection, exorcism, healing, purification, virility, sacred to the God, hung over doors at Litha, strength, courage, money
Fennel Seed: Stimulates movement
Fenugreek: Prosperity, wealth, money, mental powers, clearing
Fern: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, eternal youth, protection, outside for rain, luck, riches, health, exorcism
Feverfew: Protection, wards sickness, wards accidents in traffic
Fig: Divination, fertility, love
Figwort: Protection, health
Fir: Health, prosperity, birth and rebirth
Flax: Luck, money, protection, purification, beauty, psychic powers, healing, health, initiates flow
Fleabane: Exorcism, protection, chastity
Forget-Me-Not: Mental powers
Foxglove: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Faeries and elves, lust, grow in garden for protection of the house and yard
Fragrant Bedstraw: Love
Frankincense: Exorcism, purification, protection, spirituality, power, meditation, blessing, concentration, banishing, courage, divination, healing, love, purification, consecration, sets sacred space, sets safe space for guides to come in, spirit of east or north
Fumitory: Money, exorcism
Furz/egorse: Burn at Ostara for protection and as a preparation for any conflict
Fuzzy Weed: Love, hunting
G
Galangal: Protection, legal matters, lust, health, money, psychic powers, break hexes, energy, strength, courage
Gardenia: Love, peace, healing, spirituality, psychic awareness
Garlic: Protection, healing, health, exorcism, lust sacred to Hecate, flowers for altar offerings, cloves for protection, anti-theft, wishes, relief from nightmares
Gentian: Power, love, break hexes, wishes, theft
Geranium: (TOXIC) Courage, abundance, health, love, protection, fertility
Giant Vetch: Fidelity
Ginger: Love, money, success, power, aphrodisiac, psychic ability, apathy, lust, good health, magickal power, fire element rituals, brings into existence, bringer of the manifestation, 3rd chakra vitality, inner strength, stimulates flow of energy, spirit of south
Ginseng: Longevity, sexual potency, protection, healing, love, lust, wishes, beauty, vitality, fertility, desire, encourages a long lasting affect, strength
Goat's Rue: Healing, health
Goldenrod: Prosperity, money, divination, luck
Goldenseal: Money, healing
Gorse: Protection, money
Gotu Kola: Meditation
Gourd: Protection
Grain: Protection
Grains of Paradise: Love, lust, luck, money, wishes
Grape: Mental clarity, money, fertility, garden magick, happiness
Grass: Psychic powers, protection
Ground Ivy: Divination
Groundsel: Health, healing
Gum Mastic: Magickal power
H
Hawthorn: Happiness, fertility, powerful wands, protection, chastity, fishing magick, faeries and elves, purification, business, depression management, purity, cleansing
Hawthorne Berries: 4th chakra strength and vitality, love, contentment
Hazel: Luck, fertility, protection, wishes, nuts strung on cord in house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, anti-lightning, love, aphrodisiac, wisdom, divination, mental powers, intelligence, inspiration
Heather: Luck, protection, red to start or end an affair, white for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at samhain to invite spirits to visit, rain making, spirituality
'Heliotrope: (TOXIC) Exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, wealth, invisibility, money, spirituality, prosperity, psychic awareness
Hellebore, Black: (TOXIC) Protection
Hemlock: (TOXIC) Astral projection, diminish libido, power, purification, charging, alignment
Hemp: Healing, love, visions, meditation
Henbane: (TOXIC) Love, luck, divination, invisibility
Henna: Healing, health, love, change, dying material
Hibiscus: Love, lust, divination, 5th Chakra
Hickory: Legal matters
High John the Conqueror: (TOXIC) Strength, confidence, health, love, money, success, happiness, break hexes, increase strength, legal matters, anointing, victory
Holly Thistle: Purification, break hexes
Holly: Protection, luck, dream magic, anti-lightning, balance, dreams, enhances magic, holiness, consecration, beauty
Honesty: Money, protection
Honeysuckle: Protection, money, psychic powers, confidence, broken heart, luck, happiness, healing, depression management
Hops: Healing, sleep, stress management, opens the channel in and out of the body in relationship with the universe
Horehound: Exorcism, healing, purification, protection, mental clarity, balance, banishing, opens air element within body & in the world, opens channel for clear communication
Horse Chestnut: (TOXIC) Healing, money
Horseradish: Exorcism, purification
Horsetail: Fertility
Houseleek: Love, luck, protection
Huckleberry: Protection, luck, dream magic, break hexes
Hyacinth: (TOXIC) Business, court cases, sleep, depression management, love, protection, happiness
Hydrangea: Break hexes
Hyssop: Healing, protection, purification, wards negativity, prosperity, money, banishing, dragon energy
I
Indian Paint Brush: Love
Iris: Purification, wisdom, courage, reincarnation, spirituality, happiness
Irish Moss: Luck, money, protection, opens throat, opens channel for clear communication
Ivy: (TOXIC) Divination, protection, healing, fertility, love, fidelity
J
Jasmine: Divination, love, money, prophetic dreams, sleep, prosperity, spirituality, visions, confidence, broken heart, astral projection, business, court cases
Jimson Weed: Protect against evil spirits
Job's Tears: Luck, wishes, healing
Joe-Pye Weed: Love, respect
Juniper: Protection, love, exorcism, health, anti-theft, banishing, peace, wishes, aphrodisiacs, sets sacred space, spirit of north
K
Kava Kava: Lust, protection while traveling, astral projection, visions, luck, visions, protection, love, opens one to receiving guidance and guides
Kelp: Wind spells, psychic powers, protection, connection to divine source through the physical and spiritual, unity, life-force strengthening, spirit of center
Knotweed: Health, binding spells, protection
L
Lady's Mantle: Love, self control
Lady's Slipper: Protection
Larch: Protection, anti-theft
Larkspur: Protection, health
Lavender: Protection, call in good spirits, love, sleep, longevity, happiness, peace, healing, burn for purification, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as an offering, psychic awareness, chastity, liberation, menopause, childbirth, grief or loss, youthful vigor, stress management, travel, anger management, attracts elves
Leek: Exorcism, love, protection
Lemon: Purification, love, friendship, longevity, cleansing, healing, peace, success, broken heart, anger management, devotion
Lemon Balm: Love, success, healing, depression management, aphrodisiac, soothe emotional pain after relationship ends
Lemon Verbena: Protection, purification, love, power, beauty, youth, happiness, peace, mental and emotional balance, summer solstice
Lemongrass: Psychic powers, mental clarity, lust, repel snakes
Lettuce: Love divination, sleep, protection, chastity, luck
Licorice: Love, lust, fidelity, aphrodisiac, meditation, harmony
Life-Everlasting: Health, healing, longevity
Lilac: Eorcism, protection, purification, beauty, love, peace, psychic awareness
Lily: Protection, exorcism, repel negativity, truth, break love spells, strength, purification, breaking hexes
Lily of the Valley: (TOXIC) Mental clarity, happiness, insight, depression management, peace
Lime: Healing, love, protection, cleansing, happiness, purification
Linden: Healing, protection, luck, love, sleep, bark for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, youth, attraction, longevity
Liquid Amber: Protection
Liverwort: Love, protection
Lobelia - (TOXIC) healing, love
Loosestrife: Peace, protection, harmony, purple restores harmony and brings peace
Lotus: Protection, spirituality, love, lock opening, liberation, mental powers
Lovage: Love, attraction, cleansing, purification
Love Seed: Love, friendship
Lucky Hand: Protection, luck, money, travel, employment
M
Mace: Psychic powers, mental clarity, divination'
Maguey: Lust
Magnolia: Fidelity, past lives, peace, sex, broken heart, beauty, wisdom
Mahogany, Mountain: Anti-lightning
Maidenhair: Beauty, love
Male Fern: Luck, love
Mallow: Love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake: (TOXIC) potency, exorcism, protection, fertility, money, love, health, protection, catalyst, prosperity, divination, increase psychic powers, aphrodisiacs, cursing enemies, building, banishing, protection in the subconscious, unconscious and underworld,
Maple: Money, longevity, love
Marigold: Prophetic dreams, protection, legal matters, marriage spells, enhanced psychic powers, pick in full sun, business and legal matters, clairvoyant dreams, mixed with water and rubbed on the eyelids to see fairies
Marjoram: Protection, love, happiness, health, money, depression management, prosperity
Marshmallow: Healing, friendship, boundaries, love, protection, strength, emotional balance'
Masterwort: Protection, strength, courage
Mastic: Psychic powers, lust, manifestations, love, magick power
May Apple: (TOXIC) Money, prosperity
Meadow Rue: Love, divination
Meadowsweet: Love, divination, peace, happiness, harmony, 3rd chakra
Mesquite: Healing
Milk Thistle: Creativity, protection, dispel, transformation
Mimosa: Love, protection, prophetic dreams, purification, past lives, visions
Mint: Exorcism, protection, money, lust, healing, travel, alter offering for helpful spirits , love, luck, anger management, dreams, abundance, prosperity, rejuvenation
Mistletoe: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism, hunting, success, catalyst, lust, liberation, sexual potency
Molukka: Protection
Moonflower: Liberation
Moonwort: Love, money, divination
Morning Glory: (TOXIC) Peace, happiness, depression management
Moss: Luck, money
Motherwort: Balances within, self empowerment, 2nd chakra
Mugwort: Astral projection, strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, divination, rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night, clairvoyance, purification, sex, renewal, fertility, clearing, sleep, visions, opens one to the teachings of the subconscious and unconscious self, 6th and 7th chakras
Mulberry: Protection, strength
Mullein: Exorcism, health, protection, courage, love divination, calling spirits, dreams, opens life energy flow through the body
Musk: Purification, sex
Mustard: Fertility, protection, mental clarity, health, money
Myrrh: Spirituality, purification, protection, healing, exorcism, wards negativity, burn for purification and consecrations, banishing, sets sacred space, ancient wisdom
Myrtle: Peace, money, love, youth, fertility, sleep, healing, prosperity
N
Narcissus: Peace
Nasturtium: Healing
Neroli: Love
Nettle: Exorcism, protection, healing, lust, abundance, 3rd and 6th chakra, banishing, stress management, gossip management
Niaouli: Protection
Norfolk Island Pine: Protection, anti-hunger
Nutmeg: Protection, money, health, luck, fidelity, break hexes, burn for prosperity, love, psychic awareness, relief from nightmares
Nuts: Fertility, prosperity, love, luck, use for tips on wands, gifts, communication
O
Oak: Protection, health, money, healing, potency, fertility, luck, the God, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health, acorns draw money, power, balance, prosperity
Oak Moss: Court cases, money, protection
Oats: Money, offering to the god, stress management
Oleander: (TOXIC) Love
Olive: Healing, peace, fertility, potency, protection, lust, victory, spirituality
Onion: Exorcism, healing, protection, purification, money, prophetic dreams, lust
Orange: Love, divination, luck, money
Orange Bergamot: Prosperity, success, energy, joy, friendship, success, prosperity, psychic awareness, peels for love, incense for good fortune
Orchid: Love, psychic powers
Oregon Grape: Money, prosperity
Orris: Divination, protection, love, prosperity, money, clairvoyance, sex, psychic awareness
P
Palmarosa: Hhealing, love
Palm Date: Fertility, potency
Pansy: Love, divination, rain magick, mental powers, strength
Papay: Protection, love, wishes
Papyrus: Protection, wisdom, self-insight
Parosela: Hunting
Parsley: Purification, protection, lust, love, fertility, prosperity
Passion Flower: Peace, sleep, friendships prosperity, increase libido, popularity, anger management, stress management
Patchouli: Money, fertility, lust, break hexes, incense for drawing money, earth, underworld, business, confidence, court cases, love, desire, prosperity, protection, success, sex, enemies
PAU D'ARCO: Fertility, wards off negativity, clears
Pea: Money, love
Peach: Exorcism, love, fertility, wishes, longevity, broken heart, youth
Pear: Love, lust
Pecan: Money, employment, prosperity, dreams, discipline
Pennyroyal: Exorcism, consecration, strength, protection, peace, healing
Peony: Exorcism, protection, purification
Pepper: Exorcism, protection, use in amulets or grow for protection, wards negativity
Peppermint: Purification, sleep, love, healing, psychic powers, divination, money, apathy, exorcism, insight, lust, menopause, clears energy and space
Pepper Tree: Protection, purification, healing
Periwinkle: (TOXIC) Protection, money, love, lust, mental clarity
Persimmon: Healing, luck, changing sex, insight into others
Petitgrain: Protection
Pilot Weed: Protection
Pimento: Love
Pimpernel: Protection, health
Pine: (TOXIC) Protection, exorcism, money, healing, fertility, brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, needles in money spells, spirituality, gambling, dreams, cleansing, banishing, purification, prosperity, employment, birth, rebirth, strength, life and immortality
Pineapple: Luck, money, chastity, hospitality, protection
Pipsissewa: Money, calling in good spirits
Pistachio: Breaking love spells
Plantain: Protection, healing, strength, snake repelling
Plum: Protection, love, healing, self-confidence
Plumeria: (TOXIC) Love
Poke: (TOXIC) Courage, break hexes
Pomegranate: Divination, luck, wealth, wishes, fertility
Poplar: Money, astral projection, success
Poppy: Fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, healing, invisibility
Potato: Healing, image magick, astral projection, separation, foundations, earth energy
Prickly Ash: Love
Primrose: Protection, love
Purslane: Protection, love, happiness, luck, sleep
Q
Quassia: Love
Queen of the Meadow: Power, protection
Quince: Protection, love, happiness
R
Radish: Protection, lust
Ragweed: Courage, faeries and elves
Ragwort: Protection
Raspberry: Healing, visions, protection, love, alleviates labor pains, spirit of center, spring equinox
Rattlesnake Root: Protection, money
Red Clover Blossoms: Abundance, love, money, protection, success, summer solstice
Red Root: Clears energy, dispels
Rhubarb: Health, protection, fidelity
Rice: Protection, money, fertility, rain, blessings, weather magick
Roots: Protection, divination, power
Rose: Beauty, protection, purification, love, psychic powers, healing, divination, peace, luck, courage, catalyst, sex, sleep, prophetic dreams, anger management, love divination, abundance, attraction, prosperity
Rose Geranium: Protection
Rose Hips: Healing, luck, call in good spirits, abundance, strength, fall equinox ceremony
Rosemary: Exorcism, protection, healing, love, lust, mental clarity, sleep, youth, burn for purification, wards negativity, love, blessing, consecration, cleansing, strength, wishes, dreams, beauty, theft, healing, psychic ability, spirit of south, grow to attract elves, blessing
Rowan: Protection, success, psychic powers, healing, power, wands and amulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for divination, fires to call upon spirits for help, grow for protection of the home, inspiration, wisdom, enhances magic, attracts faeries
Rue: Exorcism, protection, purification, break hexes, health, mental clarity, healing, blessing, consecration, use in altar oil, love, money and wealth, gossip management
Rye: Love, fidelity
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Saffron: Love, lust, healing, strength, happiness, psychic powers, wind raising, depression management
Sage: Purification, protection, wisdom, longevity, wishes, health, immortality, intuition, divination, luck, prosperity, money, spirituality, menopause, psychic ability, clears, inner guide, longevity, vision
Sagebrush: Exorcism, protection, purification, joy, peace
St. John's Wort: (TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, courage, strength, happiness, health, love divination, burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, willpower, gathered at Litha, power, stress management
Saltpeter: Unwanted advances
Sandalwood: Protection, exorcism, purification, wishes, healing, spirituality, full moon esbats, wards negativity, spirit offering, luck, sex, banishing, astral projection, business, success, mental powers
Sarsaparilla: Love, money, inner strength, grounding, purification
Sassafras: Money, health, healing
Senna: Love
Serpentaria Root: Love, aphrodisiacs
Sesame: Money, success in business, lust, happiness, gambling
Shallot: Purification
Shamrocks: Faeries and elves
Shepherds Purse: Sleep, depression management, healing
Skullcap: Peace, love, fidelity, stress management, anxiety management
Skunk Cabbage: Good fortune, legal matters, legal matters
Slippery Elm: Halts gossip, aids verbal communication and development, enemies, friendship, ends disputes
Sloe: Exorcism, protection, banish negative energy/entities
Snakeroot: Money, luck, break hexes, love, lust
Snapdragon: Protection, break hexes, exorcism, prophetic dreams, prosperity, gossip management, money and wealth
Solomon's Seal: Love, exorcism, protection, an offering to the elementals for their aid
Sorrel, Wood: Healing, health
Southernwood: Love, lust, protection, faeries and elves
Spanish Moss: Protection
Spearmint: Healing, love, mental clarity
Spiderwort: Love
Spikenard: Health, fidelity, love, luck, strength, wisdom, mental powers
Squill: Protection, money, break hexes, business
Star Anise: Psychic powers, luck, good fortune, spiritual powers
Stephanotis: Lust
Stillengia: Psychic powers
Straw: Luck, attracts fairies, do not burn magik infused straw, it will bring ill-fortune, used as an image to protect an area, image magick, fertility
Strawberry: Love, luck, joy, broken heart
Sugar Cane: Love, lust, prosperity, sympathy
Sumbul: Psychic powers, love, luck, health
Summer Savory: Mental clarity and strength, mental powers
Sunflower: Wisdom, health, wishes, fertility, happiness, friendship, prosperity
Sweetgrass: Calling in good spirits, bringer of positive energy, clears, seals In, burned after white sage which clears, spirit of east
Sweetpea: Strength, courage, friendship, chastity, truth, love
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Tamarind: Love
Tamarisk: Exorcism, protection
Tangerine: Magickal power
Tansy: Healing, health, longevity
Tea: Strength, courage, prosperity, riches, health
Thistle, Holly: Purification, hex breaking
Thistle, Milk: Exorcism, protection, healing, strength, break hexes, snake enraging
Thyme: Purification, courage, psychic powers, sleep, wards negativity, burn for purification, and healing spells, love, renewal, youth, divination, prophetic dreams, faery folk, romance
Ti: Protection, healing
Toadflax: Protection, break hexes
Toadstool: (TOXIC) Rain making
Tobacco: (TOXIC) Healing, purification, offerings
Tomato: Protection, prosperity, love
Tonka: (TOXIC) Courage, love, money, wishes, luck, friendship, prosperity
Tormentil: Protection, love
Trefoil: Decorate alter, protection, luck, when taking one, leave a bit of ginger or milk poured into the ground as payment to the fairies
Trillium: Love, luck, money
Tuberose: Love, lust, peace, psychic awareness
Tulip: Protection, prosperity, love
Turmeric: Purification (used with sea salt), fortification, strength, clears aggression
Turnip: Protection, endings, banish negativity
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Uva Ursa: (TOXIC) Psychic powers
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Valerian: Protection, purification, love, sleep, prophetic dreams, peace, sex, friendship, anxiety management, self esteem
Vanilla: Love, lust, mental clarity, money, confidence, attracting people, magickal power, prosperity, success, wishes
Venus Flytrap: Protection, love
Vervain: Sleep, protection, purification, love, money, peace, healing, gather/burn at Litha, altar offering, brings riches, creativity, wards psychic attack, youth, chastity, astral projection, unwanted advances, anger management, prosperity
Vetch, Giant: Fidelity
Vetivert: Love, luck, money, break hexes, wards negativity, anti-theft, exorcism, wishes, peace, protection, prosperity, divination
Violet: Protection, healing, love, lust, luck, wishes, peace, sleep, insight, visions
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Wahoo: (TOXIC) Courage, success, break hexes
Walnut: Health, mental clarity, wishes, infertility, spirituality, travel
Watercress: Healing
Wax Plant: Protection, power
Wheat: Money, fertility, prosperity
White Willow Bark: Healing, blessings, binding, sacred earth connection between human and earth and spirit, protection, spirit of east
Wild Lettuce: Love divination, protection, sleep, opens to the deeper consciousness, attunes to deeper meanings
Wild Plum: Healing
Wild Yam: Fortification, grounding, release, 1st chakra
Willow: Protection, healing, love, burn bark with sandalwood for divination, vitality, energy, ending pain, moon magic, wishing, spirits, death passage, besom, inspiration, pyschic energy
Wintergreen: Protection, healing, break hexes, strength, good fortune, opens channels
Winter's Bark: Success
Wisteria: Spirituality
Witch Grass: Exorcism, happiness, love, lust
Witch Hazel: Protection, chastity, healing, beauty, unwanted advances
Wolf's Bane: (TOXIC) Protection, invisibility
Wood Betony: Love, purification, protection
Wood Rose: Luck
Wood Sorrel: Healing, health
Woodruff: Protection, money, victory, add to Beltane wine to clear away barriers, success, changes, psychic awareness, prosperity
Wormwood: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, BURN IN WELL VENTILATED AREA, PREFERABLY OUTDOORS TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, love, psychic powers, calling spirits, protection while traveling, evocation, divination, scrying (stronger when combined with Mugwort) at Samhain, sacred to the moon, good luck, clairvoyance, divination, safety in cars
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Yarrow: Hhealing, divination, exorcism, protection, courage, love, psychic powers, happy marriage (wedding bouquet), wards negativity, defense, protection, gather at Litha, happiness, fidelity, broken heart, prophetic dreams, spirit of south, clears, stimulates movement
Yellowdock Root: Clears stuck energy, fortification
Yellow Evening Primrose: Hunting
Yerba Mate: Love, lust, fidelity
Yerba Santa: Protection, healing, psychic powers, beauty, clears channel to divine life force
Yew: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Yule symbol for death and rebirth, used for dagger handles, raising the dead, psychic awareness, spirits
Ylang Ylang: Insight, love, past lives, peace, sex, visions
Yohimbe: (TOXIC) Love, lust
Yucca: Protection, purification, transmutation
⸙⚘.⸙⚘.⸙ 𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓫𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓾𝓶 𝓼𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 ⸙⚘.⸙⚘.⸙
Got inspired (by myself) and made another herbarium spread but with fresh leaves and all the spring vibes 🌿☘️🍃 (old one is all pressed flowers & leaves) (◍•ᴗ•◍)
Always wanted to have a magical herbarium 🌸🌿✨
For witchcraft practitioners who work with plants, be it in spells, charms, being tactile in nature or gardening, this list contains some of the plants that can bring harm if used incorrectly or have a high level of toxicity.
Always be cautious and so research on any plant or herb you’re planning to utilize or grow.
Rosary Pea (Abrus precatorius) • Ingesting a single seed can kill an adult human. Symptoms of poisoning include nausea, vomiting, convulsions, liver failure, and death, usually after several days.
Wolfsbane (Aconitum spp) • All parts are poisonous, if ingested, it usually causes burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth, followed by vomiting and nervous excitement. Even casual skin contact should be avoided. Symptoms include numbness, tingling, and cardiac irregularity.
White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) • All parts are poisonous, especially the berries, the consumption of which has a sedative effect on cardiac muscle tissue and can cause cardiac arrest.
Arnica • Poisonous in great quantities. Symptoms of poisoning include gastroenteritis, fever, nausea, dizziness, abnormal cardiac frequency, diarrhea, skin reaction and internal hemorrhage in the digestive system.
Azalea (Rhododendron simsii) • If ingested it is poisonous. Continued contact should be avoided. Symptoms of poisoning are nausea, depression, respiratory difficulties, coma. It is rarely lethal.
Anthurium (Anthurium spp) • Prevent getting in contact with the sap. Symptoms are skin irritation and eye irritation.
Cedronella canariensis • Can cause skin irritation, indigestions. Should not be used or touch by pregnant people or lactating people.
Belladonna (Atropa belladonna) • Extremely poisonous, it is lethal and it can be absorbed through skin. Symptoms of poisoning are fogged vision, staggering, loss of balance, dry mouth and throat, headache, skin eruptions, constipation, confusion, hallucination and convulsion.
Lamprocapnos spectabilis • Can be poisonous in big quantities, which causes convulsions and other symptoms in the nervous system.
Iris versicolor • Symptoms pf poisoning include nausea, vomit, mouth and throat irritation, irritation on the digestive system, skin irritation, headache and epiphora.
Bryony • All parts are poisonous and any type of contact causes death.
Ranunculus • If ingested, the juice can cause serious damage to the digestive system.
Acorus calamus • Toxic in big quantities, can cause hallucination, nausea and vomit.
Physostigma venenosum • Extremely toxic, can cause intense sweating, extreme salivation, nausea, vomit, diarrhea, irregular cardiac rhythm, change in blood pressure, confusion, convulsion, coma, muscular weakness, paralysis, respiratory difficulties and death.
Cinnamomum camphora • Skin rash, itchiness, respiratory difficulties, mouth, eyes, face or lips swelling.
Ricinus communis • Poisonous. Can cause burning in the mouth and throat, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea. At a long period of intoxication, can cause dehydration, low blood pressure. If not treated, death will occur in 3 to 5 days
Daphne • Poisonous. Causes burns in the mouth and digestive tract, followed by coma. Can cause death.
Vinca • Must not be ingested, causes nausea, vomit, loss of hair, loss of hearing, dizziness, bleeding, nervous difficulties, convulsions, liver damage and death.
Asclepias tuberosa • Cardiac difficulties, nausea, vomit and skin rash.
Agave spp • The juice of a number of species causes acute contact dermatitis, with blistering lasting several weeks and recurring itching for several years thereafter.
Columbine (Aquilegia spp) • Seeds and roots contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed, columbine poisonings are easily fatal.
Mercurialis perennis • Symptons happen after some hours, they include vomit, pain, gastritis, renal inflammation and sleepiness.
Colocasia • All parts are poisonous and cause mouth and tongue irritation. Can be fatal.
Gelsemium • Extremely poisonous, even in low quantities. Causes headache, problems with vision, difficulty swallowing, dizziness, muscular complications, convulsions, respiratory complications and low blood pressure.
Laburnum • Causes excitation, loss of balance, convulsions and coma. Can be lethal.
Helleborus • Dangerous if ingested or applied on the skin. Cause irritation in the mouth and throat and low blood pressure. Big quantities can cause vomit, diarrhea, difficulties swallowing, nervous system complications, blindness, convulsion, paralysis, respiratory complications and death.
Ilex aquifolium • The fruits can be lethal and the leaves cause diarrhea, nausea, vomit, stomach and intestine complications.
Hedera helix • Causes stomach pain, respiratory complications and possible coma.
Impatiens capensis • Dangerous when ingested in big quantities.
Datura stramonium • Don’t inhale or ingest. Causes dry mouth, extreme thirst, vision complications, nausea, vomit, constipation, tachycardia, hallucinations, fever, convulsion, loss of conscience, respiratory complications and death.
Convallaria majalis • Causes irregular blood pressure and cardiac rhythm, indigestion and confusion.
Mandragora officinarum • Fogged vision, dry mouth, difficulties to urinate, headache, tachycardia, vomit and hallucinations.
Viscum album • Gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, low blood pressure, convulsion. It is rarely lethal for humans.
Morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor) • Diarrhea, indigestion, disorientation, loss of apetite, ataxy and hallucinations.
Artemisia vulgaris • Prolonged contact may be fatal, so it’s best to use in a open and ventilated place.
Oak (Quercus): In big quantities is poisonous and affects the renal kidneys.
Nerium oleander • Causes cardiac complications, indigestion and can cause death.
Taxus baccata • Fatal. No symptoms come as a warning.
Hypericum perforatum • Causes fatigue, dizziness, confusion, dry mouth and can affect medicaments.
Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia spp) • All parts of this plant contain toxins and are often fatal. Effects of ingestion may include losing connection with reality and hallucinations.
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) • The leaves, seeds, and flowers are poisonous. These cause irregular heartbeat, general digestive upset, and confusion; can be fatal.
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) • The bulbs are poisonous, causing nausea, vomiting, gasping, convulsions, and possibly death. Even handling the bulbs can cause skin irritation.
Hydrangea (Hydrangea spp) • Hydrangeas are moderately toxic if eaten.
Frangipani (Plumeria spp) • Contact with the milky latex may irritate eyes and skin.