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"R" Herbs

Radish

Properties: protection, lust

Radwort

Properties: protection

Ragweed

Properties: courage

Raspbery

Properties: protection, love

Rattlesnake Root

Properties: protection, money

Rhubarb

Properties: protection, fidelity

Rice

Properties: protection, money, fertility, rain majick

Roots

Properties: protection, power, divination

Rose

Gender: female
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Properties: Love, attraction, friendship, luck, beauty, protection, psychic power, divination, healing, peace, courage, dreams, the fulfillment of love. Rose attar is high in maintaining empowerment. Roses are high in vitamin C. Conserves of roses or rose petals in honey are often recommended for nausea and sore throats.

Rose Hips

Gender: female
Properties: Love. To follow a bountiful harvest, steep a fragrant tea of dried rose hips served with local honey.

Rosemary

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Also Known As: Compass Weed, Dew of the Sea, Elf Leaf, Guardrobe, Incensier, Libanotis, Polar Plant, Sea Dew
Plant Part: leaves and small branches
Properties: Sleep, purification, youth, love, lust, power, healing, protection, mental powers, blessing, consecration, exorcism, happiness, money, banishing, vitality. Used with the brow chakra. Increases memory, reduces nervousness, and guards against negative energies and associations. Add to all purification, love and protection baths, sachets, and incenses. Can be added to other herbs to boost money spells when you need a bit to cover immediate needs. Stimulate heartfelt longing with mint, lavender and rosemary. Wash your hands with rosemary when you don't have time for a ritual bath before spellcasting. Burn rosemary and juniper as a healing and recuperation incense. Can be used as a substitute for thyme. Rosemary relieves tension, promotes the healing of wounds, can be a mild stimulant, and acts as an antiseptic. In tea form it aids in treating the flu, stress, and head or body aches. The oil form is used to treat muscle sprains, arthritis, rheumatism, depression, fatigue, memory loss, migraine headaches, coughs, flu, acne, cellulite, diabetes, nasal congestion, insect bites and stings, and stimulating the circulation. Also excellent in hair conditioners. Soak the leaves in wine for 2 weeks, and take small glasses as a digestive aid. The flowers may be added to lotion recipes to improve the complexion.

Rowan

Gender: male
Planet: Sun
Element: Fire
Plant Part: wood
Properties: Protection, good luck, healing, psychic powers, success. The wood is said to cause life to bloom.

Rue

Gender: male
Planet: Sun and Mars
Element: Fire
Plant Part: top part of plant
Properties: Protection, healing and maintaining health, love, hex-breaking, seeing mistakes, repentance, banishment, exorcism, mental powers, clarity of thought. Purification of ritual spaces and tools. Clears the mind of emotional clutter. Burn for banishing any negativity, or bad habits you want to get rid of. 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.

Rye

Properties: love, fidelity