Make your own Herbal Medicine Chest for Anxiety
Daily Strengthener and Stress Buster: In one quart of hot water, add
= 2 tablespoons Oatstraw
= 1 tablespoon Scullcap
= 1 tablespoon Holy Basil
= 2 teaspoons Rose Petal
Let steep for ten minutes and then decant and drink throughout the day.
For Gentle Relaxation: In one pint of hot water, add
= 1 table spoon of linden
= 1 teaspoon spoon of catnip
= 1 teaspoon of chamomile
= 1 teaspoon rose petals
Let steep for ten minutes, then decant and drink 1-2 cups as needed.
For Stronger Relaxation and for Help with Getting to Sleep: In one pint of hot water add
= 1 tablespoon hops
= 2 teaspoons linden
= 2 teaspoon passionflower
= 1 teaspoon licorice
Let steep for ten minutes, decant and drink one to two cups in the evening.
For Muscle Tension, Strong Anxiety, Acute Symptoms of Panic and for Sleep:
= 1 tablepoon of kava
= 2 teaspoons of cramp bark
= 1 teaspoon of licorice
Put ingredients in pot with pint of water. Boil and then let this simmer for 20 to 30 minutes. Then decant and drink. You should be left with about a cup to a cup and a half of very strong tasting tea.
taken from here, image and recipe credit goes to them
Homemade Cough Syrup
Ingredients:
- honey — Bee Free Honee (vegan) HERE
- citrus — lemons (Organic and washed)
- herbs — fresh rosemary & peppermint
- spices — ginger (fresh or dried/ground), whole cloves, ground cinnamon, ground cardamom
Instructions:
- Slice the lemons into rounds and quarter them
- Stack and mix the ingredients in a glass jar
- Allow to sit for 4-6 hours shaking occasionally
- store in the refrigerator for 2-3 months
Use:
- simply swallow a spoonful or two to ease a sore throat
- Add 2 heaping spoonfuls to a glass of hot water or tea
Cinnamon: Natural antibacterial properties
Cloves: anti-fungal with anesthetic properties
Ginger: Anti-inflammatory and immune boosting
Lemon: Astringent
Peppermint: antispasmodic, antimicrobial and anodyne (pain relieving)
Rosemary: antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-fungal.
Just made a new batch of our topical Menstrual Cramp Salve. Added a bit of lavender to the basic recipe. Smells amazing.
How to make your own natural herbal infused oil in a few easy steps. Make your own oils from scratch. Once made, these oils are suitable for a range of uses, they can be burned in a candle oil burner to add fragrance to the air, excellent to use at your altar instead of incense, use it to anoint candles for candle magic, add to baths for spell work purification and for silky and heavenly soaks, make it into perfume, use for a variety of skin conditions, use it as massage oil or even just a delicious cooking oil or salad dressing. See below for instructions. Use, olive, almond, sunflower or coconut oil work best. 1. Find a large, clear, clean glass jar or bottle with a tight lid. 2. Pack fresh, clean, whole herbs loosely into the jar, use any herbs you like or a mixture, you can experiment with smells and tastes or if you need a specific one for a spell or potion only use that. 3. Cover the herbs with oil. High quality olive oil is best, but any good quality vegetable oil will work. 4. Put the lid on as tightly as you can, and set the jar on a sunny windowsill - this is best done in the summertime, but can be done in winter if you have a window that gets maximum amount of light, even in winter. 5. Leave the jar on the windowsill for 30 days, shaking it gently once a day. 6. Find another large, clear, clean glass jar or bottle with a tight lid, a large funnel, and some cheesecloth. Pack the cheesecloth fairly tightly in the funnel. Set the funnel in the empty jar, and wrap some cheese cloth around where the mouth of the jar meets the funnel, to prevent spillage. You can also use a fine sieve but it won’t work as good. 7. Slowly pour the oil into the clean jar through the funnel. The cheesecloth will strain the herbs, letting the oil filter into the jar. Experiment with mixes. Fill the jar with a mix of chamomile, vanilla and lavender to ensure pleasant sleep. Mix vanilla and cinnamon to fill your kitchen with cooking scents. This does not make essential oil. Essential oils are the herbs compressed to make oil. This makes diluted oil. There is no need to further dilute this oil. Lavender is soothing, cinnamon invigorating, mint fresh. White willow bark has a spicy smell, sage is used by Native Americans for cleansing, chamomile is used to soothe and help sleep. Do some research about your favorite scents, and see what you can find. In the Autumn try using rosemary which also has astringent and healing properties as well. In the summer pick or purchase mint to make a refreshing oil White willow bark (or any kind of bark or nuts or roots) may need to be soaked in water first, left in the oil longer, and/or used as freshly as possible. Some herbs can be used dried, like cinnamon, but for the most part, dried herbs lose their essential oils, so best to use fresh. Store oil in a cool, dark place, and smell it occasionally. If it smells rancid, don’t use it.
Herbs!
I’ve been looking at this too long, don’t know how I feel about it really.
Ink, digital color
Make your own Peppermint & Lavender Headache Balm
Simple Complete Instructions at Henry Happened
Herbal Remedies for Cold and Flu Season
1. DIY Elderberry Thyme syrup – elderberry has been used for centuries in healing because it provides immune support (and has long been thought to banish negative energy). Can be taken both preventatively and to shorten the course of a cold.
2. DIY Cough Drops – these cute cough drops are made with tea and honey to sooth an irritated throat. The original blogger chose hibiscus tea for the taste, but consider using one of the herbal teas she lists at the bottom for a more healing herbal remedy.
3. Lemon, Honey, and Ginger in a Jar – a traditional and internet favorite, this mixture turns into a jelly for when your throat needs serious soothing. Honey has been used for millennia to heal a variety ailments, just be sure to keep this away from infants.
4. 30 Herbs for Cold and Flu Season – for those that like to have options, here is a long list of healing herbs with suggestions on how to use them during cold and flu season.
List of incenses correspondences, by use
Anointing: frankincense, jasmine, lavender, rose, vervain, orange Balance: cypress, jasmine, sandalwood, sweetgrass Banishing/Releasing: clove, cypress, mugwort, sage, lemon/lime Binding: cypress, dragon’s blood, rowan, vertivert Blessing: copal, frankincense, rosemary, sweetgrass Changes: bayberry, dragon’s blood, lilac, patchouli, woodruff Cleansing: cedar, frankincense, pine, sage, sandal Courage: cinnamon, dragon’s blood, patchouli, rosemary Creativity: dragon’s blood, lavender, orange, rosemary, savory, tangerine Cursing: bayberry, close, dragon’s blood, myrrh Divination: bay, copal, lilac, mugwort, myrrh, sage Goals: acacia, bay, cedar, cinnamon, dragon’s blood, orange, sandalwood Happiness/Peace: jasmine, lavender, orange, rose, vervain, sandalwood Inspiration/Wisdom: acacia, copal, frankincense, oak moss, pine, sage Love: cinquefoil, jasmine, lavender, mugwort, orange, rose Luck: bay, bayberry, jasmine, patchouli, sandalwood, violet Meditation: acacia, copal, cypress, cedar, frankincense, jasmine, sage Power/Strength: dragon’s blood, frankincense, patchouli, verbena Protection/Defense: bayberry, dragon’s blood, rosemary, woodruff Visions: basil, bay, copal, frankincense, mugwort, sage Willpower: bay, cedar, patchouli, rosemary, sage, woodruff
(source: Grimoire for the Green Witch - Ann Moura, 2003)
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Life and beauty.
Whew, finally back from school! Now that I’m free, it’s time to reassemble one of my best school essentials for next quarter—tiny, reusable packets of herbs that are perfect for spells on the go (or spicing up a dull meal…what’s the difference, really?).
While I love the look of tiny bottles for portable ingredients, they’re not as space-saving as these repurposed straws. So though my best staples get bottled for easiest refills, I like to keep the odd ingredient (or extra backups of the classics) rattling around in my pockets like this! Some things to keep in mind:
- Only melt the ends as they’re separated from the herbs by the pliers/tweezers—food safe plastic or not, you still don’t want that melting on your ingredients!
- Most straws work for this, but thin plastic straws may warp and bubble further up the tube before the ends seal shut; try a few tests, and heat with care.
- While I always carry around a pen knife, if you don’t, consider keeping these in a little pocket tin with a razor blade for easy opening. Cutting the small notch in the end is pretty effective for fingers-only opening, but may cause leaks in fluid-filled packets and should be avoided in those cases. Small, neat incisions with a knife also make for easier sealing for reuse!
EDIT: while I didn’t touch on it too much here, I also use these to prepare ready-made spells. If you’re doing this, consider matching the color of the candle and straw to the spell intent!
Oliver Sacks (via deepsearune)
I officially got the cutest shirt in the world 🌿🌻
From andmorgan on etsy!
Looking for witchcraft blogs to follow
Yes, I know there have been loads of people posting about this recently, but I’m looking for witchcraft blogs to follow. Specifically newer witches, or witches who are looking for active blogs interested in discussing witchcraft. I love the correspondence posts and the beautiful grimoires but I’m also looking for blogs where I can flail and go UM THIS WAS NOT THE INTENDED PLAN OF THIS SPELL (and I’m very happy for folks to flail back at me). Specifically interested in:
- Crystals! ALL the crystals
- Herbal/green/kitchen witchery
- Astrology/cosmic witchcraft
- Tarot, or more precisely people who won’t judge me when I ignore my Tarot deck for three weeks because it acted like a little shit in our last reading
When they tell you not to wear makeup 🌙
Before and after cleaning for my new geode hunk that I got a discount price for from an old-time rock hounder at the local crafts fair~ its soooo gorgeous and heavy, Im so pleased!
My favourite place 💚
Pink Opal and Chalcedony - Peru
Rough pink opal specimens can display stalactites, each coated with druzy chalcedony. Sometimes hyalite opal pockets form as well.

