A Reference Guide to Magickal Properties of Herbs, Flowers, Spices, and Plants
Note: This list is always being updated. I will include herbs, flowers, roots, and fruits as they all hold magickal properties. I have tried to list when an herb is toxic, but if you plan on ingesting any herbs, please do additional research. Additionally, take special care if you suffer from allergies (such as ragweed), are pregnant or nursing, or are taking any medications, as herbs may affect your negatively.
Agrimony: Sleep, protection
Allspice: Luck, healing, compassion, money
Almond: Prosperity, money, wisdom
Aloe: Luck, protection
Angelica: Healing, protection, exorcism, visions
Apple: Healing, love, garden magic, emotions
Apricot: Love, sweetness
Basil: Fortune-telling, inner strength, money, prosperity, love, exorcism, flying, protection
Barley: Healing, protection, love
Bay: Success, wisdom, prophetic insights, wishes, money, protection, purification, healing
Belladonna: POISONOUS, formerly used in astral projection and visions
Bergamont: Luck, curse-breaking, money
Black Pepper: Protection, warding off the negative, inner strength
Blackberry: Healing, protection, tied to Lughnasadh, money
Black Tea: Riches, courage, strength
Blueberry: Protection; also goes by bilberry
Borage: Psychic powers, courage
Buckthorn: Finances, wards off evil-eye
Cactus: Chastity, protection
Calendula: Prophetic dreams, legal matters, psychic powers, protection
Camphor: Health, divination, chastity, psychic arts, past lives, occult
Caraway: Meditation, calming, lust, health, mental powers, protection
Cardamom: Friendship, love, lust, persuasion
Carrot: Lust, fertitlity
Cashew: money
Catnip: Beauty, fun, animal magick, love, hapiness
Chamomile: Calmness, happiness, luck, money, meditation
Cherry: Divination, love
Cinnamon: Power, lust, love, prosperity, success, psychic powers, speed things up (power)
Citronella: Clarity, clearing obstacles, happiness
Chickweed: Love, fidelity
Chili: Lust passion, excitement, curse-breaking, protection
Cloves: Curse-breaking/removing, protection, love, money
Clover: Money, love, protection, fidelity, success, exorcism
Comfrey: Money, safe travels
Coriander: Health, healing, love
Corn: Divination, luck, protection
Cornflower: Fertility, love, sex, abundance, love, creativity, Psychic Awareness, Ritual, Third Eye Awakening, Self- Knowledge, Spirituality, Growth, Creativity
Cumin: Protection (physical and spiritual), preventing bad luck
Dandelion: Used for sun magick, courage, bravery, accepting change, divination, psychic abilities, prophetic dreaming, calling spirits.
Dill: Helping children, overcoming difficulties, lust, positivity
Echinacea: strengthen spells
Eucalyptus: Protection, lucid dreaming, healing
Eyebright: Psychic and mental powers, divination, truth, memory
Fennel Seed: Courage, inner strength
Fenugreek: money
Feverfew: protection (physical), inner strength, traveling
Flax: Money, protection, beauty, psychic powers
Foxglove: POINSONOUS; protection
Frankincense: Exorcism, protection, spirituality
Garlic: Banishing, inner strength, protection, curse-breaking
Ginger: Money, business success, love, power
Ginseng: Wishes, beauty, healing, lust, love, protection
Grape: Fertility, money, garden magick
Hazelnut: Divination, luck
Heather: Luck, protection
Hemlock: POISONOUS; Astral projection, warding off negative entities
Hibiscus: Love, lust, divination
Honeysuckle: Psychic powers, money, protection
Horehound: Mental powers, exorcism, healing, protection
Hyssop: Protection, purification
Jasmine: meditation, romantic love, dreams, fortune-telling
Lavender: Used for protection, love, purification, sleep, chastity, longevity, happiness, peace, divination, psychic ability.
Lemon: Friendship, anti-negativity, longevity, purification
Lemon Balm: Love, healing, de-stress, banish evil spirits, success
Lemon Verbena: Purification, love
Lemongrass: Psychic powers, lust
Licorice Root: Love, ancestors, spirits, fidelity
Mandrake: POISONOUS; Fertility, money, love, protection
Marjoram: Familial happiness, inner strength, moving on, grieving
Marshmallow Root: (also goes by Althea) Psychic Powers, protection
Mistletoe: Protection, dreaming, romantic love
Mugwort: Psychic powers, astral projection, healing, prophetic dreams
Mullein: Courage, health, love, divination, protection
Mustard Seed: Protection, purification
Myrrh: Healing, spirituality, protection, exorcism
Nettle: Healing, protection, curse-breaking, lust
Nutmeg: Money, luck, health, fidelity, fortune-telling
Orange: Luck, money, love, divination
Oregano: Health, happiness, astral projection
Peach: Love, fertility, wishes
Plantain: Healing, strength, protection
Parsley: Lust, purification, protection, fertility, truth, contacting the dead
Passionflower: Sleep, peace, friendship
Patchouli: Fertility, sexuality, virility, money, divination
Pennyroyal: Money, inner strength, protection (physical)
Peppermint: Calming bad situations, positivity, healing relationships
Pomegranate: Divination, luck, wishes, wealth, love, fertility
Poppy: Fertility, sleep, divination, love
Raspberry: love, protection
Red Clover: Prosperity, happiness, luck
Rose: Love, Psychic Powers, Healing, Love, Divination, Luck, Protection
Rose Hips: Health, wealth, prosperity, fertility, protection
Rosemary: Cleansing, purification, banish negativity and nightmares, protection, memory
Sage: protection, cleanings, wisdom, animal magic
Skullcap: Love, fidelity, peace
Star Anise: Curse-breaking, luck, consecration, happiness, purification, protection
Strawberry: love, luck
Sunflower: Wishes, fertility, health, wisdom
Tarragon: Confidence, dragon magick
Thistle: Fairy magick, courage, assertiveness
Thyme: Healing, business success, concentration
Walnut: Mental powers, fertility
Wheat: Money, prosperity, fertility, tied to Lughnasadha/Lammas
Wormwood: Protection, healing. Can be ingested, however it may easily be toxic as it is a “narcotic-analgesic” containing absinth.(1)
Valerian Root: Dream magick, sleep, peaceful relationships, friendship, protection
Vanilla Bean: Mental powers, love, lust
Violet: Luck love, wishes, protection
Vervain: psychic protection, healing, peace, magick to help children
Yarrow: Courage, love, psychic powers, exorcism
Yerba Mate: Love, lust, fidelity
IN PROGRESS
Cocoa
Elder Flower
Elder Berry
Hawthorn: Fertility, lust, wishes, protection, fairy magic
White TEa
Green Tea
Nasturtium
Information compiled from the following sources:
The Green Wiccan Herbal: 52 magical herbs, plus spells and witchy rituals
(1) The Magical & Ritual Use of Herbs. Richard Alan Miller. Destiny Books. New York. 1983.
