ACACIA - - Protection, Psychic Enhancement.  Burn while you announce your desire.  You can also add to burn with other appropriate herbs for money and friendship.

ASAFETIDA -- (Really Strong Odor!!) - Banishing, Protection and Purification.  Burn the crushed roots and leaves for incense.

ASPHODEL -- Love Drawing.  Place the flower on the altar or next to the tool you are using for attracting a new love. Also worn in the hair.

BALM OF GILEAD -- Flowery tops and leaves.  Soothes love pains, de-stressing.  Throw the fresh herbs in a bath, as you soak visualize your wish coming true, place in red wine for attracting a new love

BENZOIN -- Purification and Intellect.  Burn for success in intellectual matters.  Burn crushed and powdered leaves for purifying the home, self and other items of negative energies.

BERGAMOT --Money, Prosperity.  Use the oil of this herb in attracting money.  Carry a sachet with you to the Bingo parlor for luck in winning!

BETONY -- Protection, Purification and Love.  Carry a sachet for protection and/or scatter at the four corners of a room in the house.  Burn and let the smoke cover you for purification. Carry with you in an amulet for love advances.  Burn for banishing disharmony in a relationship.

BIRCH -- Protection, Purification.  Sacred tree of the Celts. Use the wood for making wands and other magick tools.  Also can be mixed with other herbs for a peaceful sleep.

BISTORT -- Clairvoyance, Fertility.  Carry as a sachet for fertility and conception.  Added as a booster with other herbs for divination.

BURDOCK -- Protection, Purification.  Carry as a protection sachet or burn for purification of the room, Rinse with a root decoction for ridding oneself of a gloomy feeling about yourself or others.

CACTUS -- Protection.  Bury with other banishing symbols for protection, grow in the house and garden for unwanted intrusions, use the spine to mark the symbols in banishing candles.

CARNATION -- Creativity, enhance magickal powers, achieving balance.  Also used with other appropriate herbs for healing, Energy.  Light a scented candle, use in bath, place with other herbs for added energy.  Burn flower tops for creativity.

CELANDINE -- Protection, Escaping Entrapments, Happiness.  Use when feeling trapped in a undue negative situation, wear as an amulet for protection and happiness.

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CINQUEFOIL -- Protection, Love, Prosperity, Healing.  An "All-purpose" Magick Herb.  Carry in sachet for prosperity and riches, burn crushed fresh herb for multipurpose wishes in love, money, health and protection.  Hang at the front door and/or hallways for protection in the home.  Smudge with this in the four corners to ward off negative influences.  Use also for energy, power and strength.

CLOVER -- Protection, Mental Clarity, Money and Luck.  The three-leafed type is used for protection, carry as a sachet or amulet, the four-leafed type is used as an amulet or sachet for luck, attracting money and keeping your head about you.  CLOVE Repelling Negative Influences.  Worn or carried to repel negative energies around you, carried with other appropriate herbs for mental clarity, added with other herbs also for attracting love.  Also, said to protect babies in their cribs if hung over them strung together.  COMFREY Protection.  A strong herb for protection of any type of negativity around you, for traveling, for protection in the astral realms.

CORIANDER -- Love, Fertility and Protection.  Carry in a sachet or amulet for fertility, grow in your garden or hang the plant in your home for protection against negative influences and unwanted guests, used with other appropriate herbs to help ease the pain of an ended love affair.  Used also in dream protection sachets and pillows.

DANDELION -- Sleep Protection, Healing.  The roots are used for sachets in dream pillows and sachets, the leaves and flowers are used in a tea for healing.

DILL -- Protection, Love.  Carry in sachets (the tops) for protection or place over the crib for the baby, place seeds in muslin and hang in shower for attracting women, also used with other herbs for ridding negative energies.

ELECAMPANE -- Banishing, Love, Purification.  Dispels violent, angry vibrations.  Hide a sachet of the herb in a room, or sprinkle powdered herb along the doorways and hallways.  Add to love sachets and incenses.

EYEBRIGHT -- Clairvoyance, Meditation.  Used in a tea form and anoint the eyes for aid in clairvoyance.  Helps too with other appropriate herbs to open the third eye and aid in meditation.

FERN -- Protection.  Hang an Air Fern in the study room to help concentration, burn a sprig before an exam.  In the Earth element, hang for powerful protection, use sprigs in sachets and amulets for a powerful a uric protection.  INTENTION is very important in the use of this herb.

GARDENIA -- Healing, Friendship, Love.  Carry or wear the pure fragrance or the crushed flowers to attract a new easy love or friendship.  Burn with other healing herbs for added peace and comfort for the person who is ailing.

GERANIUM -- Love, Healing and Protection.  Depending on variety, use white for love, red for protection and healing and pink for home protection.  Use the oil for communication, mending spats between lovers and protecting against further disharmony.

GINGER ROOT -- Success, Power and Money.  Burn the crushed dried root for attracting money and success in a business endeavor, carry for power in a given situation (caution: please be sure you have thought out the situation and your stand on it before trying this one, it could backfire on you!).  Used in love wishes too as an added boost of power.

HAZEL -- Wisdom, Protection and Fertility.  The Wood is used for all magickal tools, especially good in all luck wishes.  A sachet of the fruit of the tree is given to new brides for luck in marriage and fertility.  Place the sprigs up high in the room for a powerful magickal protection and luck.

HEATHER -- Protection, Peace and Healing.  Carry as an amulet for a powerful protection.  Also promotes peace in the home when hung or used in decorations for the home.  Hang in the bedroom for peaceful sleep.  Place on the altar for boosting other herbs and items to enhance psychic awareness.

HOLLY -- Protection.  Its wood is used for all magickal tools as it will enhance any wish you have.  A powerful protection in the home.  Also said to heighten masculinity if the fruit and leaves are carried by a man.

HONEYSUCKLE -- Divine Inspiration, Peace, Balancing, also Prosperity.  Fill a sachet and wear it or light a scented candle for clairvoyance or crush the flowers and rub into the forehead for psychic powers.  Place flowers in a herbal bath for balancing yourself when feeling out of sorts.  Add to all prosperity oils incense, sachets and wish items for a quick abundance.

HOPS -- Healing, Balancing.  A tea drank before bedtime helps with a restful sleep, also drank after magick acts to help balance and refocus oneself back to the everyday world.  Use in healing sachets and amulets and the dried herb is also burned during healing prayers.

HOREHOUND --Protection, Energy, Power.  As a tea, used for increased energy and strength when needed in situations.  Increases the power of strength and mental clarity wishes.  Carried or burned for protection wishes.

HYACINTH -- Love and Protection.  Carried in sachets and amulets to ease grief, childbirth pains.  Used in dream pillows to ward off nightmares.  Used as a protective charm in negative influences.  The oil is best to use and you can also anoint a candle for protection with this herb and oil.

HYSSOP -- Protection, Healing.  Used as a tea for protection of all types, physical and mental.  Use as a healing bath.

IVY -- Protection, Fertility and Love.  Use this plant by hanging in front of the door to the home to repel negative influences and unwanted guests.  Place inside the home at open windows and arches.  Mixed with Holly it is a great wedding sachet to protect the bride and groom.  Magickal love wands are made from this wood.

JASMINE -- Spiritual Love and Dream Sleep.  Used in dream pillows and sachets for sweet dreams during troubled times.  The fresh flowers and oils are used for attracting and maintaining a spiritual love.  Very powerful, only a little will do!

JUNIPER -- Money, Protection and Love wishes.  Used as an oil to add to the other herbs for increasing money status, light a juniper scented candle for prosperity.  Use in a string of the fruit for attracting love, burn leaves and fruit for magickal protection.  Place a sprig at the door to the home for protection against theft and unwanted visitors.  Place a twig or leaves with valuables to safeguard.

LAUREL (BAY)  -- Leaves and Wood.  Divination, Protection, Purification, Justice and sleep/dreams.  Burn the fresh leaves for divination, hang up at the highest point in the home for protection or burn and let the smoke hit the four corners of a room for purifying and cleansing of negative energies.  Place in a dream pillow for safe sound sleep or with other herbs for psychic dreams.

LEMON VERBENA -- Dream Protection, Love.  Wear a sprig or a piece of it to protect you from dreaming.  Carry the leaves or an amulet of the herb to attract the opposite sex.  Also added to other wishes to enhance the power.

LOVAGE -- Psychic Sleep, Energy and Purification.  Used as a tea for psychic dreams before bedtime or as an energy booster before exams or when clear thinking is needed.  Use in a bath for cleansing.  Added to other love herbs, enhances the attraction.

MALLOW -- Peace and Happiness, Femininity.  Use as a tea to soften the character for a woman, or appreciate the small things and beauty in life.  Use also in a bath to be able to do these things.

MARIGOLD -- Love, Clairvoyance.  Added to other herbs in sachets, amulets and even incense for attracting a new love or adding new life to a present relationship.  Place above the bed for psychic dreams or use in dream pillows.

MARJORAM -- Helps to accept deep changes in life, Prediction, Balancing, Protection.  Burn over burner when someone or something dies, either figuratively or physically or place herb under pillow and ask for a revealing dream.  Place a pinch of the herb in the corners of the home for protection, added as a booster for all love wishes.

MEADOWSWEET -- Love, Happy Energy.  A subtle but beautifully aromatic herb this is used for the symbol of love when mixing up your potions.  Add a fresh pinch to boost.  Burn the dried herb to relieve disharmony in the home or to relieve tensions when the in-laws are coming. continue to burn in a scented candle, no one will know!

MELILOT -- Memory enhancing, Healing.  Use as a decoction, it is rinsed over the head to increase the power of memory when needed, good for the student to do before studying or an exam!  As a bath, heals and soothes.

MINT -- Clear thinking.  Use as tea for clearing the head before meditation or performing magick.  Can also be used to calm when situations in a relationship are explosive.

MISTLETOE -- Protection, Healing and Love.  Harvested on a Waning Moon, used to repel negative influences and protect against unwanted advances.  Used in sachets and amulets, or hung in the home, it is a general all-purpose protector.  Use in a bath for healing wishes or the herb added to a prayer bowl enhances the healing.  Worn, it is said to help conceive and to hold on to your current love.  Hunters were said to carry some of this for luck and protection.  Wear when astral traveling for protection. One of the favorites of the Fey!

MULLEIN -- Powerful Protection.  Used usually in a an amulet to protect against any unwanted influences.  Also, carry with you to guard against any wild animals when in the wilderness.  Burn the leaves when banishing heavy bad influences and an immediate halt to bad habits.

MYRTLE -- Love.  The wood is used to make magickal charms and other tools, especially those involving love.  Wear a caplet of the leaves while preparing other love potions, burn with any love wish.  Add also to friendship wishes for true friends.

NETTLE LEAVES -- Protection, Petty Problem Resolutions.  Infuse the flowers as a tea, sprinkle on self and other people, (with their permission of course!) or in a room to remove petty jealousies, gossip, envy and uncomfortable situations.  Use with a poppet to send bad vibes back to the person sending to you then bury it. Burn during banishing wishes.

NUTMEG -- Clairvoyance.  Used to strengthen your psychic powers.  Carry the seed or anoint candles with this herb, used also with other appropriate herbs to enhance psychic dreams and wishes.

ONION -- Protection, Banishing, Purifying.   An onion cut in half and placed in the corners of the room will absorb illnesses, and bury or burn in the morning.  Rubbing a magickal tool on the half of the bulb, will cleanse it. Also sacred to the Moon so it should be used in any wish involving energies of the Moon itself.  Place onion bulbs and flowers around the house for protection.  Burn the flowers for banishing any bad habits and negative influences.

ORANGE -- Use the flowers for a herbal bath to not only refresh and stimulate but also to make one attractive for a special event, add the rinds to a love sachet to help someone make up their mind, wear the oil when dealing in business negotiations that need an extra "uumph"!  Carry as a sachet or amulet or hang a sprig up in the home to aid in the "heart says one thing, the head the other" situation.

ORRIS ROOT -- Love, Attraction.  Carry an amulet or sachet for drawing a new love.  Add to other love herbs to create a loving environment and stimulate the thoughts of love with someone.  Place small pinch's in the corners of the room to open a new love or burn during a new love wish.  Bathe for attraction of the opposite sex.  

PARSLEY -- Healing and Vitality.  Call the power of the Element of Earth and drink as an infusion.  Restores a sense of well-being.  Used for increasing strength and vitality after surgery or sickness, adds new life to "in-a-rut" situations.  Can be added to other healing herbs to quicken the wish.

PATCHOULI -- Passionate Love, Fertility.  Business Growth.  Used primarily in attracting a powerful passionate love.  Burned for new business growth and also placed in the garden to help it grow healthy.  Worn in a sachet or an oil for fertility.  Also used with other Earth element herbs for divination and increasing psychic awareness.

PEARMINT -- Healing and some Love wishes.  Burn for healing wishes especially respiratory.  Carry the herb in sachet for healing, drink the tea for healing or take a bath for strength and vitality.

PENNYROYAL -- Protection, Banishment.  Burn for protection in meditation and astral travel.  Used also for ridding oneself or the home of negative thoughts against you.  Carry in a sachet or amulet when dealing with negative vibrations of all kinds.  Place a little on a candle before or during uncomfortable meetings.

PEONY -- Protection, Luck.  A great all-purpose protection herb.  Use the dried root for all types of protective charms, including dream pillows.  Hang in the home or car, burn for ridding of negative influences of any type.  Used with other herbs to attract luck and used also to attract Faeries.

PEPPER-BLACK -- Another wonderful and cupboard ready herb for banishing negativity.  Burn to rid the home or office of bad vibrations or before you move in.

PLANTAIN -- Healing.  Use the dried leaves and roots in a healing bath.  Place a few pinch's in the flame of the candle or throw to the East wind in all healing wishes.

ROSE -- Ultimate Love, Protection.  The ultimate in love wishes, this will aid in bringing a true lasting love and help also to mend any spats between you in an already committed relationship.  The petals can be bathed with while thinking a new love to you, the dried flowers are burned in love wishes.  Dancing with the petals and asking the Little Folk to aid in love wishes!  Sleeping with the flowers will protect your dreams.  Carry a sachet or amulet for protection against bodily injury or when working healing wishes.

ROSEMARY -- Love, Protection.  Clear Thinking and Money.  Used primarily for contentment and happiness to the home and to the person, a branch is hung, food is cooked with it or it can be worn to be a tension relieving and contented feeling.  This also added to other appropriate herbs is a great boost for money.  Carried in a sachet, guard against negative energies.  Tea is drank to improve mental clarity and aid in the memory.  RUE Repentance, Seeing mistakes.  Banishment.  Hang this dried herb indoors from the ceiling to the floor to help others and yourself see and understand their mistakes, preferably in an inconspicuous place.  Burn for banishing any type of negativity or bad habits you may want to get rid of.

SAFFRON -- Clairvoyance.  Another cupboard-ready herb, this herb whether burned, worn, carried or drank, helps to develop and strengthen your psychic awareness.  Use liberally when working with the chakras.  Use as a substitute for Orange.  Also used with other herbs for healing.

SAGE -- Healing, Purifying.  Used in sachets and amulets for all healing wishes and also burned or placed near a personal object of the person for whom the healing wish is made.  Burned and the smoke is walked to the four corners of the room to repel and rid negative energies and influences.  Especially good when moving into a new home.  Can be drank as a tea to help promote a hasty healing.  Also used when meditating.

ST. JOHNS WORT -- Protection, Banishing, Calming.  Use the leaves in a necklace to ward off sickness and tensions.  Carry to strengthen your courage and conviction, or when about to confront a nasty situation.  Burn to repel and banish negative thoughts and energies from yourself or others.

SANDALWOOD  -- Protection, Cleansing, Meditations and Healings.  Burn to enhance your meditations and healing wishes.  Use the wood also for a healing wand or tie a piece on a healing wand.  Burn to cleanse and purify yourself or the home by passing the smoke over your body or through the house.  Used with other herbs in developing your spirituality.

SKULLCAP -- Meditations, Clear Thinking.  Used as a tea, drank before meditation or to enhance the development of.  As a bath, used for calming the aura of tensions and stress.  Burned for relief of disharmony and disruptive situations.

SOLOMON'S SEAL -- Cleansing and Protection.  Burn for cleansing rooms and yourself of negative influences.  Carry in an amulet or sachet for protection in all sorts of situations.  Use with other herbs in dream pillows.

THYME -- Clairvoyance, Sleep, Courage, Cleansing, Healing and Love.  Use in dream pillows to ward off nightmares, burn or use with other oils for aid in psychic awareness, wear a sprig to ward off severe grief, or give strength and courage when needed. Also used to enable one to see the Wee Ones! Burn and/or hang a sprig to banish and purify a home or room.  Use with other herbs for healing and take a cleansing bath before working candle magick.

TONKA BEANS -- Love.  Simply put, carry the bean in your pocket, as a sachet, amulet or even place next to the candle or stone in all love drawing wishes.

VALERIAN -- Dream Magick, Reconciliation's.  Love and Harmony wishes.  Use fresh herbs in sachets for dream magick and sleep protection baths, burn for reconciliation in love relationships (make sure you have all parties permission first!), drink as a harmonizing tea infusion.  Place in the home or grow in the garden to aid in keeping harmony.  Add to other herbs for love wishes.

VERVAIN -- Cleansing, Protection and Love.  Used mainly for cleansing baths and incenses before working magick as it both cleanses and protects any negative influences.  Used in amulets, sachets, dream pillows, oils, incense and baths purifying and protecting people, (especially children) and home.  Spiritual manifestations and creativity.

VIOLET -- Love, Luck and Night Magick.  Carried, the flowers are to impart luck to the bearer.  Given also to newly married couples and babies.  Added to other love herbs for all types of love wishes.  Have a spray of violets on hand when working night magick and to aid in divination and spirituality.

WILLOW -- Divination, Healing, Protection and Moon Magick.  The wood is often used in the making of magickal wands and tools.  It is also considered a sacred WISHING tree.  Used when working with spirits and all healing wishes, wear a sprig when someone close to you passes.  Place on the altar for all moon magick wishes and for all divination.

WORMWOOD -- Clairvoyance, Protection.  After magick sessions, mental clearing smolder during magick ritual, or as a tea Burn during divination and clairvoyance, burn for all protection.

YARROW -- Love, Clairvoyance and Banishment.  Carried as a sachet or amulet it repels or rids of negative influences.  Said to keep a newly married couple together and any upsetting influences out of the relationship and their love alive.  Aids in keeping up your courage and in any divinatory workings.

Dangerous Herbs to Stay Away From

The Food and Drug Administration has released a list of nine (9) herbs 

that can cause serious adverse reactions.  

Chaparral - which has been promoted as a cancer cure and an acne treatment. Chaparral has been linked to six cases of liver inflammation.  

Comfrey - has been tied to at least seven cases of liver complications.  

Germander - touted by some herbalists as a weight loss aid, has been tied to 27 cases of liver inflammation and one death. Some places sell Germander under the name Skullcap.

Jin Bu Huan - an expensive Chinese patent medicine, has been tied to three cases of liver inflammation.  

Yohimbe - marketed as an aphrodisiac, has been tied to cases of kidney failure, seizure, and even death.  

Stephanie/Magnolia - an herbal preparation containing  these two herbs has been implicated in 48 cases of severe kidney injury.  

Lobelia - can suppress breathing, speed the heart, and possibly lead to coma or death. Ash's note: Jethro Kloss recommends Lobelia for just about everything... Herbalist's have long known the misinformation found in "Back To Eden." It is highly advisable to look up all herbs in a modern Herbal guide, prior to use.  

Ma huang - used in products for weight control and enhanced energy, has been associated with memory loss, high blood pressure, and stroke.  

Willow Bark - the FDA warns of producing adverse reactions, although to date none have been reported. Willow bark is the "original aspirin." Obviously if you are allergic to Aspirin, stay away from Willow.