Below are listed some of the magickal properties and uses of the herbs and other plant materials found in essential oils and incenses. This list is by no means exhaustive. Many herbs have additional properties such as therapeutic uses in alternative healing and aromatherapy. Many herbs also have unique characteristics when used in combination with other substances.
| Herb/Plant |
Magickal Properties and Uses |
| Acacia |
Protection, psychic powers |
| Allspice |
Money, luck, healing |
| Almond |
Money, prosperity, wisdom |
| Amber |
For stability, self-confidence, and peace |
| Ambergris |
To awacken love and emotion |
| Angelica Root |
Used for protection and exorcism and to cause visions |
| Anise |
Protection, purification, youth |
| Apple Blossom |
For love and friendship |
| Balm of Gilead |
Attract new love, mend broken heart, protection, healing |
| Bayberry |
Money, good luck, peace, harmony, well-being |
| Benzoin |
Purification, prosperity |
| Bergamot |
Money, hex-breaking |
| Blessed Thistle |
For purification and protection from evil, used in hex-breaking spells |
| Buckeye |
Carry to attract money and to ward off aches and pains |
| Camphor |
To awaken past life memories, stimulates psychic awareness |
| Carnation |
Protection, strength, healing, vitality |
| Catnip |
Creates a psychic bond with cats, attracts good spirits, love and luck |
| Cedar |
Healing, courage, purification, protection, money, hex-breaking |
| Chamomile |
For sleep and meditation, and to attract money |
| Cherry |
Divination, love |
| Cinnamon |
Lust, love, success, power, psychic awareness, healing, protection |
| Clove |
Money, love, lust, exorcism, protection |
| Clover |
Protection, money, love, fidelity, success, exorcism |
| Coltsfoot |
Draws peace and tranquility, promotes visions, also used in spells involving animals |
| Comfrey |
For safety during travel and to draw money |
| Cyclemen |
To draw love and truth |
| Cypress |
For comfort and solace, to ease feelings of loss |
| Damiana |
Used for lust and love |
| Dragon's Blood |
Power amplifier, protection, love, banishing, potency |
| Eucalyptus |
Healing, protection |
| Five Finger Grass (cinquefoil) |
Protection, prophetic dreams, wisdom, and success in court cases |
| Frankincense |
Spirituality, protection, exorcism, consecration |
| Galangal |
For courage, strength, and for avoiding legal problems |
| Gardenia |
Love, peace, healing, spirituality |
| Geranium |
For fertility, health and love |
| Ginger |
Success, power, money, love |
| Ginseng |
For attracting love, luck and health |
| Gota Kola |
Meditation |
| Heliotrope |
To attract money and gain power |
| Hemlock |
To induce astral projection, to purify magickal knives or swords |
| Hibiscus |
For love, lust, divination |
| Honeysuckle |
Money drawing, psychic awareness, memory, healing, power,honesty |
| Hops |
Healing, sleep |
| Hyacinth |
For love and protection |
| Hyssop |
Purification, protection |
| Jasmine |
Love, prophetic dreams, money, sleep, love, healing, health, meditation |
| John the Conqueror |
Money, love, happiness, hex-breaking, protection |
| Juniper Berries |
Protection, health, increases psychic powers |
| Lavender |
Chastity, love, peace, happiness, clairvoyance, longevity, sleep, protection |
| Lemon |
Longevity, purification, love, friendship |
| Lemongrass |
For lust, psychic powers and to repel snakes |
| Lilac |
Protection, banishing |
| Lily of the Valley |
For peace, harmony and love |
| Lotus |
Spirituality, love, protection |
| Magnolia |
Peace, nature spells, hair growth |
| Mandrake |
For protection, fertility, money and love |
| Marigold |
Protection, prophetic dreams, legal matters, psychic powers |
| Mistletoe |
Protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism |
| Mugwart |
Strength, psychic powers, healing, astral projection |
| Musk |
Courage, fertility, lust |
| Myrrh |
Spirituality, healing, protection, exorcism, transformation, consecration |
| Narcissus |
For peace and harmony |
| Nutmeg |
Fidelity, luck, money, health |
| Orange |
Divination, love, luck, money |
| Orange Blossom |
For beauty, love |
| Orris |
For love |
| Passion Flower |
Peace, sleep, friendship |
| Patchouli |
Fertility, lust, money, protection, divination |
| Pennyroyal |
For strength, protection, peace |
| Peppermint |
Love, psychic awareness, lust, mental stimulant, energy |
| Pine |
Healing, protection, exorcism, fertility, money |
| Plumeria |
For love |
| Primrose |
For protection and love |
| Rose |
Love, beauty, psychic powers, divination, healing, luck, protection |
| Rose Geranium |
Protection, fertility, love, health |
| Rosemary |
Mental powers, youth, protection, love, lust, purification, sleep, exorcism |
| Rue |
Healing, mental powers, protection, love |
| Sage |
Wisdom, animal guides, wishes, immortality |
| Sandalwood |
Spirituality, protection, wishes, healing, exorcism |
| Sassafras |
Health and money |
| Spearmint |
Healing, love, mental powers |
| Spikenard |
For good luck, fidelity, and health |
| Strawberry |
Love, luck and beauty |
| Sweet Pea |
For friendship, courage and strength |
| Tangerine |
Psychic powers, mental powers |
| Tea Tree |
Healing, anti-fungal |
| Tonka Beans |
Love, money, courage, wishes |
| Vanilla |
Magickal powers, mental powers, love, lust, rejuvenation |
| Vervain |
Love, protection, purification, peace, money, youth, healing |
| Vetivert |
Hex breaking, peace, luck, love, protection, exorcism |
| Violet |
Animal guide work, wishes, peace, love, luck, lust, protection |
| Witches Grass |
Happiness, lust, love, exorcism |
| Wormwood |
Psychic powers, calling spirits, protection, love |
| Yarrow Flowers |
Courage, love, psychic powers, exorcism |
| Yerba Santa |
Beauty, healing, psychic powers, protection |
| Ylang Ylang |
Love, lust, peace |
