DAISY
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Water
Magical Uses: Decorate the house with daisies at Midsummer's Eve to bring happiness to the home and to obtain the blessings of faeries. Daisies are also worn at Midsummer for luck and blessings. In the old times, young maidens would weave and wear daisy chains in their hair to attract their beloved.DANDELION
G/P/E: Masculine, Jupiter, Air.
Magical Attributes: Divination, welcoming, messages.
Uses: The ground root can act as a coffee substitute, and the flowers make a lovely wine. A superb cleansing tonic, and the milky juice is a diuretic, a tonic and a relief for common stomach problems. Use a handful of flower tops to 1 pint of boiling water, steep 10 minutes and strain. Drink this several times a day. Use the milky latex from the stem , rub on a wart several times daily and soon its gone. Also good for night blindness. DILL
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Fire.
Magical Attributes: Useful in love charms. May also be hung in childrens rooms to protect them from evil spirits and protect against bad dreams.
Uses: A culinary herb.DRAGONS BLOOD
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical Uses: Widely used in love, protection and purification spells. Keep a piece under the bed to cure impotency. Carried for good luck. May be dissolved in the bath for strong purification.ELECAMPANE
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Earth.
Magical Uses: Useful in raising spirits and to aid in meditation.ELDER
G/P/E: Feminine, Venus, Air.
Magical Uses: Branches are widely used for wands. One must always be cautious to ask permission from the Elder Dryad before cutting or harvesting Elder limbs or leaves and berries to avoid very bad luck. It is also considered very bad luck to burn Elder wood. The leaves hung around the doors and windows will ward off evil.EUCALYPTUS
G/P/E: Feminine, Moon, Air.
Magical Uses: Used in healing rituals, charms and amulets. Place the leaves around a blue candle and burn for healing energies. Green pods worn around the neck eases the discomfort of colds, sore throats and congestion.EYEBRIGHT
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Air.
Magical Uses: Anoint eyelids with the infusion daily to induce clairvoyant visions and psychic dreams.FENNEL
G/P/E: Masculine, Mercury, Fire.
Magical Attributes: Purification, protection, healing, money.
Uses: Sometimes employed as an appetite suppressant and digestive aid. Used in tea form to expel mucus. Chew the seeds slowly for really bad breath, or use the fluid extract to rub on gums. FERN
G/P/E: Feminine, Saturn, Earth.
Magical Uses: The Fern is an extremely powerful protective plant. Grow them in and around the house for protection from evil and negativity. FRANKINCENSE
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical Uses: A very powerful aid to meditation. Use to purify ritual spaces and invoke a spiritual frame of mind.GARDENIA
G/P/E: Feminine, Moon, Water.
Magical Uses: Used to attract true love.GARLIC
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical Uses: A very protective herb, healing, good weather, courage, exorcism.
Uses: A culinary herb.GINGER
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical Attributes: Power, success, love, money matters.
Uses: Acts as an aid to ingestion or colds (tea form). Also in tea form, good for cramps, to stimulate the digestive organs, migraines and nausea, external stiffness. Can be added to the bath as a way to ease pain and increase circulation, but only use a few sprinkles, not to much, like cayenne, ginger quickly brings the blood to the surface of the skin. For pain you can also soak cloths in ginger tea and apply them directly to the painful areas. Add in cooking to detoxify meat, especially chicken. A good healing tea is made from a pinch of peppermint, a pinch of ginger and either a pinch of clove powder or 2 bruised cloves, add 1 cup of hot water and steep.GINSENG
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical Attributes: Love, wishes, beauty, desire.
Uses: Stimulant, tonic, and agent for prolonged life. Also a mild pain killer, and improves blood circulation. Reported to successfully treat asthma, bronchitis, cancer, flatulence, diabetes, weakness, fever, coughs and heartburn, and a mild stimulant. In tea form it helps to relieve stress and moderate heart disease.GARLIC
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical Attributes: Protection, healing, good weather, courage, exorcism.
Uses: Lowers tension, ease colds, and improve circulation. Garlic vinegar can be used to disinfect wounds and soothe rheumatic pain and any common pain (made from one liter of vinegar and ten cloves of crushed garlic steeped for at least 10 days). Shrinks warts, relieves pain from teeth and earaches. Good for high and low blood pressure and removing parasites and infections. To ease the pain of aching joints, a toothache or an earache, place a crushed raw bulb of garlic on a piece of gauze and place over the area of pain. For joints, try using garlic paste.A-C | D-G | H-M | N-S | T-Y
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