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| 100 Amzing Herbs and their Uses |
| Wood Crowfoot This herb is good for headaches, coughs and cattahr, bladder and menstrual difficulties. Used for foretelling storms, for the petals of the flower close up when one is headed. |
| Stellaria Media Used medically for swellings, coughs and urinary infections, also for soreness. |
| Eldrun This amazing herb is used for all kinds of medical disorders. Used for asthma, wheezing and coughing, fever, headaches, burns and scalds, swelling, and it is believed to promote long life. Used in divination and contact with the Otherworld. Used as protection in a storm, and this tree is beloved of Faeries, should it be growing in a Faerie ring, or by a large boulder or a spring. WARNING. Do not in any way harm or disturb an Eldrun tree, for the Faeries will come and get you. |
| Whitethorn An infusion made from the petals and fruit will help a sore throat. This tree is also beloved of Faerie-kind, and it is considered sacred to them. These trees are close to the world of dead, as they are fertilized by carrion insects. |
| Arkenthos The berries of this plant are often used against eczema, swellings, and affectations of the kidneys and stomach. It is also used in sleeping draughts. The berries of this plant are useful talismans of protection. |
| Boodle Used medically against night sweats and fever, sores and ulcers. Used in protective wreaths and hoops. This herb is often used in the potion form of the Imperius Curse. |
| Faeries' Horse Used externally against wasting, and taken internally as a good mecicinal tonic. A herb dedicated to the Fae, it is believed that they gallop around in the flowers at midnight. |
| Sphagnum Used for dressing wounds |
| Dragons Claw Used for sleeplessness, headache and sore throat. Associated with divination, and it is a most sacred herb. It is often used in love charms. It is a supposedly divine herb, to do with all things Otherworldly, and is often an ingredient in the Imperius Potion |
| Milkwort Used to combat warts. It has been widely used to make magical wreaths for protection. |
| Hazel The milk of this nut is very nutricious, and is given to the weak or very young to boost strenght levels. The wood is used for water divining, and the nuts of the tree connected with wisdom of the Otherworld. This was a tree beloved of Faerie Kind. |
| Purple Loosestrife A medicinal tonic, and is widely used to banish discord within a house if hung in the entrance hall. |
| Terrestrial Sun Used for illnesses of the mind, such as insanity, general wounds, and to avert sickness in children. When picked on midsummer, can be used by the powerful witch or wizard for a powerful divination, and is often used in Imperius Potion. |
| Blackthorn A good anitseptic, also used for nosebleeds and constipation, and is believed to improve eyesight. Symbolises life and death in unision, for it flowers when there are no leaves in winter. Beloved of Faeries under the right conditions. |
| Spectres Wand Used against epilepsy, convulsions and giddiness, strenghtens the heartbeat, and the berries provide instant relief of stiches. This plant has always been favoured by the Druids. |
| Purple Orchis Used very widely in the best love charms, and is used to renew engergy and vigour. |
| Athanasia Used for spasms, strains, bruises and to preserve dead bodies. Used to obtain a magical high used by darker witches or wizards in powerful divination, and also is a remedy for weak enchantments. |
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