Herbal Properties - The Cauldron - The Corrupted Cauldron






	"C" Herbs Cabbage Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Properties: luck Cactus Planet: Mars Element: Fire Plant Part: entire plant Properties: Protection, chastity. Bury with other banishing symbols for protection. Grow in the house and garden to prevent unwanted intrusions. Use the spine to mark the symbols in banishing candles. Calamus Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Also Known As: Gladdon, Myrtle Flag, Myrtle Grass, Myrtle Sedge, Sweet Cane, Sweet Flag, Sweet Grass, Sweet Root, Sweet Rush, Sweet Sedge Properties: POISON. Luck, healing, money, protection. Camellia Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Properties: riches Camphor Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Properties: Purity, dreams, psychic awareness, divination, chastity, maintaining health. It is also a useful insect repellant. Used for fevers, hysterical complaints, rheumatic pains and gout, and useful in all irritating conditions of the sexual organs. Used externally as a wash or liniment for bruises, sprains, strains and pains, nervousness, toothaches and headaches. It can be poisonous if too much is taken internally or inhaled, and may cause vomiting, pallor, cold, confusion and delirium. Caper Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Properties: potency, lust, luck, love Caraway Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Plant Part: seeds Properties: Protection, passion, anti-theft, mental powers, memory, lust, maintaining health. The seeds represent health and protection. Add to love sachets and charms to attract a lover in the more physical aspect. Use in a sleep pillow to help you remember your dreams. Useful as an anesthetic for toothaches, and in poultice form for blows and bruises. Also a mild stimulant for digestion. Cardamom Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Properties: Lust, love. Used as a flavoring for tonics. Enhance affability among friends by serving them coffee with cardamom, according to Arabic custom. Carnation Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Gillies, Gilliflower, Jove's Flower, Nelka, Scaffold Flower, Sops-in-Wine Plant Part: flowery tops Properties: Protection, strength, healing, creativity, power, vitality, enhancing majickal powers, achieving balance. Adds energy and power when used during a ritual as an incense. Was worn by witches for protection during the Burning Times. Burn the flower tops for creativity. Carob Also Known As: Caaroba, Caroba, Carobinha, Chocolate Properties: protection, health Carrot Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Also Known As: Bird's Nest, Philtron Properties: Fertility, lust. Drives you towards accomplishing your goals, as the color represents change and attraction. Cascara Sagrada Also Known As: Sacred Bark Properties: legal matters, money, protection Cashew Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Properties: money Cassia Also Known As: Chinese Cinnamon Properties: Used as a tonic, a stomachic, a carminative, in incense and in potpourris Castor Also Known As: Palma Christi, Palms Christi Root Properties: POISON. Protection. Catnip Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Cat, Catmint, Catnep, Catnup, Cat's Wort, Field Balm, Nepeta, Nip Plant Part: roots, leaves and flowers Properties: Cat majick, familiars, joy, friendship, love, beauty, happiness, animal majick, psychic enhancement, healing pets, fertility, virility. Burn the dried leaves for love wishes. Use the large leaves to bookmark your Book of Shadows. Great for love spells and sachets. Also said to create a psychic bond between you and your cat. As an incense it may be used to consecrate majickal tools. Can be used as a relaxant during meditation. Its flowers and leaves have often been used to treat colds and insomnia. It lowers fevers, dries up post nasal drip, gets rid of bad headaches and relieves sore aching bones due to colds and flus when taken in tea form 2-3 times daily. Valerian can be used as a substitute. Cattail Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Properties: lust Cedar Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Cedarwood Plant Part: wood Properties: Healing, purification, money, protection, courage, stimulation, refreshment. Water and decay resistant, and repels insects and moths. Avoid during pregnancy. Celandine Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Celydoyne, Chelidoninum, Devil's Milk, Garden Celandine, Greater Celandine, Kenning Wort, Swallow Herb, Swallow Wort, Tetterwort Plant Part: entire plant Properties: POISON. Protection, escape, happiness, legal matters, dream majick. Cures depression. Helps the wearer escape unfair imprisonment and entrapment. Use when feeling trapped in an undue negative situation. Wear as an amulet. Rub the fresh juice mixed with vinegar on an itchy place. Good for eczema and other such skin diseases. Apply juice to ringworm, warts and corns. It is boiled in white wine and drunk with a few anise seeds for obstructions of the liver and the gall bladder. Celery Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Plant Part: stalk Properties: Mental powers, lust, psychic powers. A very good diuretic. Centaury Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Christ's Ladder, Feverwort Properties: snake removing, shape-shifting Chamomile Gender: male Planet: Sun and Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Camomyle, Chamaimelon, Ground Apple, Maythen, Roman Camomile, Whig Plant, Manzanila, Heermannchen Plant Part: flowers Properties: Peace, healing, money, prosperity, meditation, centering, calmness, sleep, love, purification, luck in gambling, removing hexes, wishes, serenity, success. Burn for restful sleep and visualizing your desires. Prepares body and mind for majick. Sprinkle in your home for protection. Good as a meditation incense. Excellent herb both for internal and external calming. Plant in your garden to be the guardian of the land, and you will have certain success. Great for digestion, fevers, burns, anti-inflammatory for wounds, and sedative for nervous disorders. Relieves stomachaches and diarrhea in infants and small children (always using in diluted form). In tea form, made of 2 tsps of the herb steeped for 5 minutes in a cup of boiling water, it is a gentle sleep inducer. Also a good insect repellant in tea form. Good hair rinse for blondes. Use in bath herbs and in facial lotions to firm the tissues, keep the skin looking young, brighten the eyes and relieve weariness. A decoction is used as an antispasmodic, a diaphoretic, a nervine and for hysterical or nervous afflictions. Dissolves kidney stones. Cherry Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Sweet Cherry Plant Part: fruit Properties: Love, divination, removing obstacles, favors, frugality, invisibility Chestnut Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Properties: Love. In Irish and Scottish lore, chestnuts were used at Halloween to divine a couple's future. Chickweed Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Also Known As: Adder's Mouth, Indian Chickweed, Passerina, Satin Flower, Star Chickweed, Starweed, Starwort, Stellaire, Stitchwort, Tongue Grass, Winterweed Properties: fidelity, love. Chicory Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Also Known As: Wild Cherry, Wild Succory, Succory Properties: Removing obstacles, invisibility, favors, frugality. To gain favor with people of influence, grind chicory leaves with a mortar and pestle, and anoint your body with the resulting juice, as Renaissance hopefuls did. Chili Pepper Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Also Known As: Red Pepper Properties: fidelity, removing hexes, love China Berry Properties: POISON. Luck Chives Properties: Protection. To prevent a rival from interfering with love or success, make a protective mojo bag of garlic and chives. Chrysanthemum Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Mum Properties: protection Cinchona Properties: love, protection Cinnamon Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Sweet Wood Plant Part: bark Properties: Love, success, psychic powers, healing, cleansing, protection, clairvoyance, prosperity, power, lust, luck, purification, money, wealth, dream majick, spirituality and spiritual healing. Spiritual quests, and augmenting power. Use in prosperity charms and incenses. Used in incenses for healing, clairvoyance, and high spiritual vibrations. Makes a good anointing oil for any majickal working. Burn to promote clairvoyance and protection. Wear as an amulet for passion. Adds energy and quickness to healing when mixed with other appropriate healing herbs. Excellent aromatic. Reputed to be a male aphrodisiac. Ground or taken with milk is a good balance after a heavy meal or dessert. Recommended as a skin astringent and digestive aid in tea form. Also used for diarrhea, dysentery or general indigestion. Cinquefoil Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Also Known As: Crampweed, Five Finger Blossom, Five Fingers, Goosegrass, Goose Tansy, Moor Grass, Pentaphyllon, Silver Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Sunkfield, Synkefoyle Plant Part: entire plant Properties: Energy, power, strength, prophetic dreams, money, protection, sleep, love, prosperity, healing. Hang around the doors and windows for protection from evil. Smudge the four corners of a room with this to ward off negative influences. Use in spells and charms for prosperity, purification and protection. Burn crushed fresh herb for multipurpose wishes in love, money, health and protection. An all purpose majick herb. Used in lotions and gargles for the gums, and as a douche for gleet, diarrhea and dysentery, for gout and for pains of the hands and feet. Citron Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Properties: psychic powers, healing. Cloth of Gold Properties: understanding animal languages Clove Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Plant Part: flowery tops Properties: Money matters, visions, cleansing, purification, protection, exorcism, love, lust, divination, psychic development, repelling negative influences. Carried with other appropriate herbs for mental clarity. Added with other herbs for attracting love. Wear in an amulet or charm to dispel negativity and bind those who speak ill of you. Can be a protective charm when strung on a red thread. Said to protect babies in their cribs if hung over them strung together. Has a mild antiseptic quality for toothaches (chew). In tea form, it is an expectorant for colds, good for nausea and vomiting. It is an antibacterial, antiseptic and analgesic which helps in preventing disease and infection. Clover Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air and Earth Also Known As: Honey, Honeystalks, Shamrock, Three-Leaved Grass, Trefoil, Trifoil Plant Part: entire plant Properties: Protection, money, love, fidelity, exorcism, success, mental clarity, luck. Associated with the Triple Goddess. Use in rituals for beauty, youth, healing injuries, curing madness. The three-leafed type is used for protection. The four-leafed type is an amulet for luck, attracting money, and keeping your head about you. The four leaves of a four-leafed clover are said to represent health, wealth, happiness and true love. Club Moss Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Also Known As: Foxtail, Lycopod, Selago, Vagatable Sulfur, Wolf Claw Properties: power, protection Coconut Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Properties: purification, protection, chastity. Cohosh, Black Gender: male Also Known As: Black Snake Root, Bugbane, Rattle Root, Squaw Root, Black Cohosh Properties: love, courage, protection, potency Coltsfoot Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Ass's Foot, British Tobacco, Bull's Foot, Butterbur, Coughwort, Pas d'ane, Sponnc Properties: love, visions, protection Columbine Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Lion's Herb Properties: courage, love Comfrey Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Air and Water Also Known As: Assear, Black Wort, Boneset, Bruisewort, Consolida, Consound, Knit Bone, Miracle Herb, Slippery Root, Wallwort, Yalluc Plant Part: entire plant Properties: Money, healing, safe travel, protection, prosperity, protection in the astral realms. Honoring the Crone aspect of the Goddess. A strong herb for protection from any type of negativity around you. The root represents protection. Has been known to slow bleeding, aid colds and ease burns. As a poultice or a tea, it may be applied to bites, sores, rashes, broken bones and cuts. Also a good ingredient for lotions to soothe sunburns. Copal Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Also Known As: Copal Damania Properties: love, purification Coriander Gender: male Planet: Mars and Venus Element: Fire and Water Also Known As: Chinese Parsley, Cilantro, Cilentro, Culantro Plant Part: entire plant Properties: Peace, love, health, healing, fertility, maintaining health, protection of home and serenity. Good in ritual drinks. Good in incenses for longevity and love spells. If added to wine, makes a good love potion for two consenting people. To use in this fashion, grind 7 grains of coriander and mix into a wine and drink. Also used in love sachets and charms, and dream protection sachets and pillows. Used with other appropriate herbs, it can help ease the pain of an ended love affair. Corn Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Earth Also Known As: Giver of Life, Maize, Sacred Mother, Seed of Seeds Properties: protection, luck, divination Cotton Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Earth Properties: luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing majick Cowslip Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Arthritica, Artetyke, Buckles, Cuy, Drelip, Fairy Cup, Herb Peter, Key Flower, Key of Heaven, Lady's Key, Lippe, Our Lady's Key, Paige, Paralysio, Password, Peggle, Plumrocks Properties: Luck in love, healing, youth, treasure finding, divination. Induces contact with departed loved ones during dreams. A woman who washes her face with milk infused with cowslip will draw her beloved closer to her. Crocus Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Properties: love, visions, peace Cubeb Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Plant Part: berries Properties: love Cuckoo-Flower Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Properties: fertility, love Cucumber Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Also Known As: Cowcucumber Properties: chastity, healing, fertility Cumin Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Also Known As: Cumino, Cumino Aigro Properties: protection, fidelity, exorcism, peace, anti-theft Curry Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Properties: protection Cyclamen Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Also Known As: Groundbread, Pain-de-Porceau, Sowbread, Swine Bread Properties: fertility, protection, happiness, lust Cypress Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Also Known As: Tree of Death Plant Part: wood Properties: Longevity, healing, comfort, protection, consecration, divination, luck, vigor, death. Connected to death in all of its aspects. The smoke of cypress can be used to consecrate ritual objects. Many majickal tools are made from this wood. Hang a branch in the home or office for protection of any negative influence. Burn the crushed and dried wood for aid in understanding grief and death, and to aid in divination. Back To The Herbs Back To Majickal Properties Back To The Spells Back To The Cauldron Back Home