The Meaning Of Sacred Herbs, Plants & Trees

 
ACACIA - Blessing, raising of vibration, protection via spiritual elevation.

ADAM & EVE ROOTS - Love, happiness

ADDER'S TONGUE - Healing
 
AFRICAN VIOLET - Spirituality, protection
 
AGARIC - Fertility

AGRIMONY-  (Cockle bur) -Helps to overcome fear, dispel negative emotions, overcome inner blockages., protection, sleep
 
AGUE ROOT - Protection
 
ALFALFA - Prosperity, anti-hunger, money
 
ALKANET - Purification, prosperity
 
ALLSPICE -Adds strength to Will, gives determination and perseverance. Gives added vitality, energy. Also good for social gatherings -increases harmony, sympathy and co-operation between people. Stimulates friendly interaction and conversation.

ALMOND -Attracts money. Promotes alertness, wakefulness.

ALOE -Promotes patience, persistence, resolve. Also inner healing and overcoming blockages.
 
ALTHEA - Protection, psychic powers
 
ALYSSUM - Protection, moderating anger
 
AMARANTH - Healing, protection, invisibility
 
AMBER -Mental clarity and focus. Protection from harm, outside influences, psychic attack.

AMBERGRIS -Strengthens the effect of anything it’s added to or used with. By itself gives strength and vitality. (Substitute -Cypress and Patchouli mix).
 
ANEMONE - Health, protection, healing
 
ANGELICA - Exorcism, protection, healing
 
ANISE - Protection, purification, youth, opens Third Eye, connects to the Divine
 
APPLE - Love, healing, garden magick, immortality,peace of mind, contentment, happiness, success in all undertakings.,
 
APRICOT -Encourages sexuality and sensual passion. An aphrodisiac.
 
APHRODISIA -Passion, sexuality, romance.
 
ARABIC, GUM - Spirituality, purification
 
ARBUTUS - Exorcism, protection
 
ASOFOETIDA -Protection, banishing negativity, purification
 
ASH - Protection, prosperity, sea rituals, health, prophetic dreams
 
ASPEN - Eloquence, anti-theft
 
ASTER - Love
 
AVENS - Exorcism, purification, love
 
AVOCADO - Love, lust, beauty
 
AZALEA -Encourages light spirits, happiness, gaiety.
 
BACHELOR'S BUTTONS - Love
 
BALM, LEMON - Love, success, healing
 
BALM OF GILEAD - Love, manifestations, protection, healing
 
BAMBOO - Protection, luck, hex-breaking, wishes
 
BANANA -Helps to overcome serious blockages or obstacles.
 
BANYAN - Luck
 
BARLEY - Love, healing, protection
 
BASIL -Promotes sympathy, peace, understanding. Helps to avoid arguments, clashes.
 
BAY - Protection, psychic powers, healing, purification, strength
 
BEAN - Protection, exorcism, wart - charming, reconciliations, potency, love
 
BED STRAW, FRAGRANT - Love
 
BAYBERRY -Good fortune, blessing, money and prosperity.

BAY LEAF (Laurel) -Protection, purification, repels negativity. Promotes good fortune, success, victory.
 
BEECH - Wishes
 
BEET - Love
 
BELLADONNA - Highly toxic, astral projection, visions
 
BENZOIN -Use for cleansing and purification. Helps to remove blockages. Promotes strength, confidence, will power. Strengthens the effect of anything it’s added to or used with.

BERGAMOT -Protection, prosperity. Combine with Mint to work faster.
 
BE-STILL - Luck
 
BETONY, WOOD - Protection, purification, love

BIRCH -Spiritual and psychic opening, connecting with spirit helpers. Promotes balance, harmony, connection to others.
 
BISTORT - Psychic powers, fertility
 
BITTERSWEET - Protection, healing
 
BLACKBERRY - Healing, money, protection
 
BLADDERWRACK - Protection, sea spells, wind spells, money, psychic powers
 
BLEEDING HEART - Love
 
BLOODROOT - Love, protection, purification
 
BLUEBELL - Luck, truth
 
BLUEBERRY - Protection
 
BLUE FLAG - Money
 
BODHI - Fertility, protection, wisdom
 
BONESET - Protection, exorcism
 
BORAGE - Courage, psychic powers
 
BRACKEN - Healing, rain magick, prophetic dreams
 
BRAZIL NUT - Love
 
BRIONY - Image magick, money, protection
 
BROMELIAD - Protection, money
 
BROOM - Purification, protection, wind spells, divination
 
BUCHU - Psychic powers, prophetic dreams
 
BUCKTHORN - Protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
 
BUCKWHEAT - Money, protection
 
BURDOCK - Protection, healing
 
CABBAGE - Luck
 
CACTUS - Protection, chastity
 
CALAMUS -  Luck, healing, money, protection
 
CAMELLIA - Riches
 
CAMPHOR -Increases ones’ persuasiveness, personal influence. Adds strength to any mixture it’s part of. Also used for purification.
 
CAPER - Potency, lust, love
 
CARAWAY -Luck, good fortune, prosperity. Also promotes passion and enjoyment of sensuality.

CARDAMOM -Promotes love, sensuality, and sexuality. Also calmness and tranquility.

CARNATION -Attract love or friendship, improve or deepen relationships. Promotes feeling of security and confidence. Aids in recovery from illness or difficulties.
 
CAROB - Protection, health
 
CARROT - Fertility, lust
 
CASCARA SAGRADA - Legal matters, money, protection
 
CASHEW - Money
 
CASTOR - Protection
 
CATNIP - Cat magick, love, beauty, happiness
 
CAT TAIL - Lust
 
CEDAR - Healing, purification, money, protection
 
CAYENNE -Cleansing and purification. Repels negativity. Speeds up the effect of any mixture that it’s added to.

CEDAR -Confidence, strength, power. Protection, perseverance, lastingness. Spiritual opening.

CELERY -Promotes sexuality, sensuality, ecstatic trance.

CHAMOMILE -Promotes meditation, tranquility, inner peace.

CHERRY or CHERRY BLOSSOM -Happiness, good cheer, gaiety.

CHIVES -Protection.

CHOCOLATE -Adds to ones influence and persuasiveness. Helps others to be receptive to one.

CHYPRE - money, success in gambling, promotes persuasiveness and eloquence.

CINNAMON -Luck, strength, prosperity. Increases effectiveness of any mixture it’s added to. Promotes calmness and tranquility, especially for children. Also used as a strong protection.
 
CINQUEFOIL - Money, protection, prophetic dreams, sleep
 
 CITRONELLA -Promotes eloquence, persuasiveness, prosperity. Draws friends to the home, customers to the business.

CIVIT -Strength and protection. Promotes confidence and sexual attractiveness.
 
CLEAVERS - Relationships, commitment, protection, tenacity

 
CLOVER -Strengthens and deepens existing love.

CLOVES -Courage, self-confidence, very strong protection. Dispels negativity, strengthens psychic shielding. Can act as an aphrodisiac.
 
CLUB MOSS - Protection, power
 
COCONUT -Strengthens confidence and inner resolve, heightens allure and sexual attraction.

COFFEE -Grounding and protection from negativity. Peace of mind. Helps to dispel negative thoughtforms, nightmares, overcome internal blockages.
 
COHOSH, BLACK - Love, courage, protection, potency
 
COLTSFOOT - Love, visions
 
COLUMBINE - Courage, love
 
COMFREY - Safety during travel money
 
COPAL -Promotes spiritual opening. Also protection, purification, overcoming obstacles. Repels negativity.

CORIANDER -Love and healing. Also used for protection.
 
CORN - Protection, luck, divination
 
COTTON - Luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magick
 
COWSLIP - Healing, youth, treasure -finding
 
CRAB APPLE -Promotes calm and tranquility, helps settle unrest, conflict, anxiety.
 
CROCUS - Love, visions
 
CUBEB - Love
 
CUCKOO-FLOWER - Fertility, love
 
CUCUMBER - Chastity, healing, fertility
 
CUMIN -Promotes peace and tranquility.
 
CURRY - Protection
 
CYCLAMEN -Draws and strengthens love.

CYPRESS -Calm, tranquility, spiritual opening. Associated with death and mourning, Cypress stimulates healing and helps overcome the pain of loss.
 
DAFFODIL - Love, fertility, luck
 
DAISY - Lust, love
 
DAMIANA - Lust, love, visions
 
DANDELION - Divination, wishes, calling spirits
 
DATURA - Hex-breaking, sleep, protection
 
DEERSTONGUE - Lust, psychic powers
 
DEVIL'S BIT - Exorcism, love, protection, luck
 
DEVIL'S SHOESTRING - Protection, gambling, luck, power, employment
 
DILL -Mental strength and quickness. Aids focus and concentration. Also used for blessing.
 
DITTANY OF CRETE - Manifestations, astral projection
 
DOCK - Healing, fertility, money
 
DODDER - Love divination, knot magick
 
DOGBANE - Love
 
DOGWOOD - Wishes, protection
DOVE’S BLOOD -Promotes peace and tranquility. Helps to settle disputes, conflict.

 DRAGON’S BLOOD -Love, protection, exorcism, potency
 
DULSE - Lust, harmony
 
DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES - Love
 
EBONY - Protection, power
 
ECHINACEA - Strengthening spells
 
EDELWEISS - Invisibility, bullet-proofing
 
ELDER - Exorcism, protection, healing, prosperity, sleep
 
ELECAMPANE - Love, protection, psychic powers
 
ELM - Love
 
ENDIVE - Lust, love
 
ERYNGO - Traveler's luck, peace, lust, love
 
EUCALYPTUS -Spiritual cleansing, purification, and healing. Helps to overcome spiritual blockages.
 
EUPHORBIA - Purification, protection
 
EYEBRIGHT - Mental powers, psychic powers
 
FENNEL -Strength, protection, healing

FENUGREEK -Mental clarity, focus, dispels negativity.

FERN -Cleansing and purification, dispels negativity.
 
FEVERFEW - Protection
 
FIG - Divination, fertility, love
 
FIGWORT - Health, protection
 
FIVE FINGER GRASS (Cinquefoil) -Protection. Also stimulates memory, eloquence, self-confidence. 
 
FLAX - Money, protection, beauty, psychic powers, healing
 
FLEABANE - Exorcism, protection, chastity
 
FOXGLOVE - Protection
 
FRANGIPANI -Attracts love, trust, and admiration. Promotes openness in those around one.

FRANKINCENSE -Blessing and spiritual opening. Aids meditation.
 
FUMITORY - Money, exoorcism
 
FUZZY WEED - Love, hunting
 
GALANGAL -Success in court or legal disputes.

GARDENIA -Promotes peace, repels strife, protects from outside influences.

GARLIC and GARLIC SKINS -Cleansing, purification. Used to dispel depression, negativity, obsessive thoughts. Draws money, prosperity. Also used as a strong protection.
 
GENTIAN - Love, power
 
GERANIUM -Overcomes negative thoughts and attitudes, lifts spirits. Promotes protection, happiness.

GINGER -Draws adventure and new experiences. Promotes sensuality, sexuality, personal confidence and prosperity. Adds to the strength of any mixture of which it is part, and makes it work more quickly.

GINSENG -Asian variety of Mandrake. Promotes vitality, strength, personal power. Heightens sex drive and sexual attractiveness.
 
GOAT'S RUE - Healing, health
 
GOLDENROD - Money, divination
 
GOLDEN SEAL - Healing, money
 
GORSE - Protection, money
 
GOTU KOLA - Meditation
 
GOURD - Protection
 
GRAIN - Protection
 
GRAINS OF PARADISE - Lust, luck, love, money, wishes
 
GRAPE - Fertility, garden magick, mental powers, money

GRAPEFRUIT -Cleansing and purification.
 
GRASS - Psychic powers, protection
 
GROUND IVY - Divination
 
GROUNDSEL - Health, healing
 
HAWTHORN - Fertility, chastity, fishing magic, happiness
 
HAZEL - Luck, fertility, anti-lightning, protection, wishes
 
HEATHER - Protection, rain-making, luck

HELIOTROPE -Protection, prosperity, cheerfulness and gaiety.
 
HELLEBORE, BLACK - Invisibility, exorcism, astral projection
 
HEMLOCK - Astral projection, empower magickal tools
 
HEMP - Healing, love, visions, meditation
 
HENBANE - Love, rain-making
 
HENNA - Healing
 
HIBISCUS - Lust, love, divination
 
HICKORY - Legal matters
 
HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR - Money, love, success, happiness
 
HOLLY - Protection, anti-lightning, luck, dream magick
 
HONESTY - Money, monster repellent

HONEYSUCKLE -Draws success, money. Aids persuasiveness and confidence, sharpens intuition.
 
HOPS - Healing, sleep
 
HOREHOUND - Protection, mental powers, exorcism, healing
 
HORSE CHESTNUT- Money, healing
 
HORSERADISH - Purification, exorcism
 
HORSETAIL - Snake charming, fertility
 
HOUNDSTONGUE - Tying dog's tongues
 
HOUSELEEK - Luck, protection, love
 
HUCKLEBERRY - Luck, protection, dream magick, hex-breaking
 
HYACINTH -Attracts love, luck, and good fortune. promotes peace of mind and peaceful sleep. Named for Hiakinthos, Greek God of homosexual love.
 
HYDRANGEA - Hex-breaking
 
HYSSOP -Promotes spiritual opening. Also used for cleansing and purification. Lightens vibrations.
 
INDIAN PAINT BRUSH - Love
 
IRIS - Purification, wisdom
 
IRISH MOSS - Money, luck, protection
 
IVY - Protection, healing
 
JASMINE -Love, success, spiritual aid and opening. Connected to the Moon and Lunar magic.
 
JOB'S TEARS - Healing, wishes, luck
 
JOE-PYE WEED - Love, respect
 
JUNIPER -Protection, purification, healing.
 
KAVA-KAVA - Visions, protection, luck
 
KELP - Travel, protection
 
KNOTWEED - Binding, health
 
LADY'S MANTLE - Love
 
LADY'S SLIPPER - Protection
 
LARCH - Protection, anti-fire
 
LARKSPUR - Health, protection

LAVENDER -Peace and tranquility.
 
LEEK - Love, protection, exorcism
 
LEMON -Cleansing, purification, removal of blockages, spiritual opening.

LEMON GRASS -Psychic cleansing and opening.
 
LEMON VERBENA - Purification, love
 
LETTUCE - Chastity, protection, love, divination, sleep
 
LICORICE - Lust, love, fidelity
 
LIFE-EVERLASTING - Longevity, health, healing

LILAC - Lilac drives away evil where it is planted or strewn, and indeed in New England lilacs were originally planted to keep evil from the property.   The flowers, fresh, can be placed in a haunted house to help clear it.
 
LILY - Protection, breaking love spells
 
LILY OF THE VALLEY -Soothing, calming, draws peace and tranquility, repels negativity.

LIME -Used for purification and protection. Promotes calmness, tranquility. Also strengthens love.

LINDEN -Draws friendship and love. Also promotes healing and rejuvenation.
 
LIQUIDAMBER - Protection
 
LIVERWORT - Love
 
LOBELIA - Halting storms, love
 
LOOSETRIFE - Peace, protection

LOTUS -Psychic opening and spiritual growth.
 
LOVAGE - Love
 
LOVE SEED - Love, friendship
 
LUCKY HAND - Employment, luck protection, money, travel

MACE -Promotes self-discipline, focus, concentration. Good for meditation, study.

MAGNOLIA -Promotes psychic development. Aids meditation and spiritual opening.
Promotes harmony, peace, tranquility. 
 
MAIDENHAIR - Beauty, love
 
MALE FERN - Luck, love
 
MALLOW - Love, protection, exorcism

MANDRAKE -Increases vitality, strength, personal power. Heightens sex drive and sexual attractiveness.
 
MAPLE - Love, longevity, money
 
MARIGOLD -Promotes healing, psychic opening, and clairvoyance. Helps one to focus on what is truly needed, even if one is not conscious of what that is. 

MARJORAM -Cleansing, purification, dispels negativity.
 
MASTERWORT - Strength, courage, protection

MASTIC - Psychic powers, manifestations, lust
 
MAY APPLE - Money
 
MEADOW RUE - Love, divination
 
MEADOWSWEET - Love, divination, peace, happiness
 
MESQUITE - Healing
 
MIMOSA -Aids psychic development, clairvoyance. Draws prophetic dreams.

MINT -Promotes energy, vitality, communication. Draws customers to a business.

MISTLETOE -Promotes prosperity, draws customers, money, business.
 
MOONWORT - Money, love
 
MORNING GLORY - Happiness, peace
 
MOSS - Luck, money
 
MUGWORT -Promotes psychic opening, clairvoyance, prophetic dreams
 
MULBERRY - Protection, strength
 
MULLIEN - Courage, protection, health, love, divination, exorcism

MUSK -Increases confidence, self-assurance, persuasiveness. Draws new situations and prosperity.

MUSTARD, BLACK - Fertility, protection, mental powers

MUSTARD SEED -Courage, faith, endurance.

MYRRH -Spiritual opening, meditation, healing.

MYRTLE -Psychic opening, spiritual aid. Enhances any mix its added to.

NARCISSUS -Promotes harmony, tranquility, peace of mind. Calms vibrations.

NEROLI -Joy, happiness, overcoming emotional blockages.
 
NETTLE - Exorcism, protection, healing lust
 
NORFOLK PINE - Protection, anti-hunger

NUTMEG -Aids clarity, perception, ability to see below surfaces. Promotes social interaction, emotional openness, personal confidence.
 
NUTS - Fertility, prosperity, love, luck
 
OAKMOSS -Draws money, prosperity, good fortune.

ONION and ONION SKINS -Protection, stability and endurance. Also prosperity.

ORANGE or ORANGE BLOSSOM -Harmony, peace, emotional openness, love. Attracts prosperity and stability. Also used for purification. Considered very Solar.

ORCHID -Concentration, focus, will power. Also strengthens memory.

OREGANO -Joy, strength, vitality and added energy.
OREGON GRAPE - Money, popularity

ORRIS - Love, protection, divination

PALM, DATE - fertility, potency

PANSY - Love, rain magick, love divination

PAPAYA - Love, protection

PAPYRUS - Protection

PARSLEY - Lust, protection, purification

PASSION FLOWER - Peace, sleep, friendships

PATCHOULY - Money, fertility, lust

PEA - Money, love

PEACH - Love, exorcism, longevity, fertility, wishes

PEAR - Lust, love

PECAN - Money, employment

PENNYROYAL - Strength, protection, peace

PEONY - Protection, exorcism

PEPPER - Protection exorcism

PEPPERMINT - Purification, sleep, love, healig, psychic powers

PEPPER TREE - Purification, healing, protection

PERIWINKLE - Love, lust, mental powers, money, protection

PERSIMMON - Changing sex, healing, luck

PIMENTO - Love,

PIMPERNEL - Protection, health

PINE - Healing, fertility, protection, exorcism, money

PINEAPPLE - Luck, money, chastity

PISTACHIO - Breaking love spells

PLANTAIN - Healing, strength, protection, snake repelling

PLUM - Love, protection

PLUM, WILD - Healing

PLUMERIA - Love

POKE - Courage, hex-breaking

POMEGRANATE - Divination, luck, wishes, wealth, fertility

POPLAR - Money, flying

POPPY - Fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, invisibility

POTATO - Image magick, healing

PRICKLY ASH - Love

PRIMROSE - Protection, love

PURSLANE - Sleep, love, luck, protection, happiness

QUINCE - Protection, love, happiness

RADISH - Protection, lust

RAGWEED - Courage

RAGWORT - Protection

RASPBERRY - Protection, love

RATTLESNAKE ROOT - Protection, money

RHUBARB - Protection, fidelity

RICE - Protection, rain, money, fertility

ROOTS - Protection, power divination

ROSE - Love, psychic powers, healing love divination, luck, protection

ROSEMARY - Protection, love, lust, mental powers, exorcism, purification, healing, youth, sleep

ROWAN - Psychic powers, healing, power, success, protection

RUE - Healing, health, mental powers, exorcism, love

RYE - Love, fidelity

SAFFRON -Promotes clairvoyance and psychism. Also attracts prosperity and good fortune through spiritual openness.

SAGE -Used for cleansing and purification, and to promote wisdom and psychic opening. Also promotes mental clarity.
 
SAGEBRUSH - Purification, exorcism
 
SANDALWOOD -Blessing, healing, spirituality. Promotes clairvoyance, psychic opening. Also used for protection, banishing negativity.
 
SARSAPARILLA - Love, money
 
SASSAFRAS -Good for legal situations, self-empowerment, success and overcoming obstacles.

St. JOHN’S WORT -Protection. Removes negativity, dispels depression and anxiety.

SAVORY -Sensuality, sexuality, passion. Good for sexual magic.
 
SENNA - Love

SESAME -Opens doors, draws new opportunities, new directions, hope. Dispels depression and negativity.
 
SHALLOT - Purification
 
SKUNK CABBAGE - Legal matters
 
SLIPPERY ELM - Halts gossip
 
SLOE - Exorcism, protection
 
SNAKEROOT - Luck, money
 
SNAPDRAGON - Protection
 
SOLOMON'S SEAL - Protection, exorcism
 
SORREL, WOOD - Healing, health
 
SOUTHERNWOOD - Love, lust, protection
 
SPANISH MOSS -Protection, dispels negativity, opens blockages.

SPEARMINT -Psychic or physical protection. Repels negativity. Strengthens mental speed and clarity. Increases speed and effectiveness of any mixture its added to.
 
SPIDERWORT - Love
 
SPIKENARD -Blessing, psychic opening and spiritual elevation.
 
SQUILL - Money, protection, hex-breaking
 
STAR ANISE - Psychic powers, luck
 
STILLENGIA - Psychic powers
 
STRAW - Luck, image magick

STRAWBERRY -Attracts success, good fortune, and favorable circumstances.
 
SUGAR CANE - Love, lust
 
SUNFLOWER - Fertility, wishes, health, wisdom
 
SWEETGRASS - Calling spirits
 
SWEET PEA -Draws the loyalty and affection of others, attracts friends and allies.

TANGERINE -Promotes strength, vitality, energy. 

THYME -Purification, healing, strength. Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others.

TOBACCO -Used to promote peace, confidence, personal strength. Also promotes love and sensuality. Also used for protection and freedom from outside influences.

TONKA BEAN -Draws love, money, promotes the accomplishment of goals.

TUBEROSE -Serenity, peace, tranquility. Calms the nerves and promotes romance and sensual love.

VANILLA -Joy and good fortune.

VERBENA (Verveine) -Protection, repels negativity. Promotes peace and tranquility.

VETIVERT -Protection, overcoming obstacles, repels negativity. Also draws money, prosperity.

VIOLET -Promotes peace, tranquility, happiness. Calms the nerves, draws prophetic dreams and visions. Stimulates creativity.

WILLOW -Used for drawing or strengthening love, healing, overcoming sadness. Lunar magic.

WINTERGREEN -Repels disharmony, negativity, and disease. Promotes good health, tranquility, and peace in the home. DO NOT USE INTERNALLY.

WISTERIA -Raises vibration. Promotes psychic opening, overcoming obstacles, draws prosperity.

WOOD ALOE (Lignaloes or Lignam Aloes) -Protection, success and prosperity. Often used in consecration.

WORMWOOD -Overcomes negativity, breaks through obstacles. Especially useful for dealing with spirits or the Ancestors.

YARROW -Promotes courage, confidence, and psychic opening. Draws love.

YLANG YLANG -Increases sexual attraction, persuasiveness.