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Calamus was an ingredient in several of the ancient, "Witches Flying Ointments.

Calamus or sweet flag root may be powdered and used in healing incenses and sachets. Helpful in times of emotional exhaustion, burning calamus incense strengthens self-confidence and promotes success.

The fragrance is a guide to the center of personal power. Keep small pieces of the root in kitchen corners to protect against poverty and hunger. Growing the plant brings good luck to the gardener. Calamus seeds are strung as beads and worn for healing.

The seeds are a popular spice, especially in Central Europe. They enhance port, goulash, sauerkraut, cheese, and pickles and are added to cooking cabbage to reduce the smell. They flavour breads and cakes and are eaten raw or sugar- coated as Caraway comfits after a spicy meal. Chopped leaves are added to soups and salads, and the root is cooked as a vegetable.

Essential oil, distilled from the seeds, flavors gin, candy, the liqueur Kümel, and mouthwashes, and scents soaps, and aftershaves. Caraway seeds have been used in cooking since the Stone Age.

Caraway is often added to love potions to keep lovers from being unfaithful. The seeds are placed in poppets and used in spells to find one's mate. They are said to inspire lust when baked into cakes or breads. Put some in your wedding cake, or use it instead of rice to throw at the bride and groom. Pigeons are very fond of it too!

This perennial bears violet-striped white flowers and aromatic green fruits on erect or trailing racemes. The seed pods are an expensive spice, sold as whole green, bleached, or sun-dried cardamom. Cardamom seeds are a symbol of hospitality.

Deliciously spicey, cardamom essential oil brings a nice jolt of energy to live and sexually oriented formulas. Burn for love spells or use in love sachets. The ground seeds are added to warmed wine for a quick lust potion. They are also baked into apple pies for a wonderful amatory pastry.

A Druid sacred herb. The root and leaf scent, mint with cat pheromone overtones, intoxicates cats and repels rats and flea beetles. The tender leaves are added to salads and flavour meat. They can also be brewed as tea and were used before China tea was imported.

It is a feline aphrodisiac. It is used as a tea much like Chamomile, but has a very fresh taste, it is a member of the mint family of aromatic herbs.

Cat magic, familiars, joy, friendship, love. The larger catnip leaves were often used as markers in magickal texts. As an incense it may be used to consecrate magickal tools.

Cayenne acts as a catalyst and increases the effectiveness of other herbs when used with them.

Yellow chamomile brings the power of the sun to love potions, money spells and rites of purification. Use in incense for the God. When sprinkled around the house it removes hexes, curses and spells. It can be burned or added to prosperity bags to increase money.

Use for: Love; Luck; Fortune; Justice; Prosperity; Purification; Meditation; Rest.

Also called English chamomile, Perennial Chamomile, Wild Chamomile, and Ground Apple. A Druid Sacred Herb, this aromatic evergreen has feathery, apple-scented leaves and white flowers with conical golden centers.

Chamomile brings the power of the sun to love potions, money spells and rites of purification. Use in incense for the God. When sprinkled around the house it removes hexes, curses and spells. It can be burned or added to prosperity bags to increase money.

Use for: Love, Luck, Fortune, Justice, Prosperity, Purification, Meditation, Rest.

Good as a meditation incense, for centering, peace, sprinkle in your home for protection, healing, money.

Chamomile also makes an excellent insect repellent, simply splash some tea on face, arms and feet. It is used in some sleeping potions, and is often placed in a bath to attract love.

This herb is native to the Middle East, Southern Russia, and the Caucasus, and was probably introduced to Europe by the Romans. It has become one of the classic herbs used in french cookery, in which it is considered indispensable. Chervil enhances the flavour of chicken, fish, herb butter, vegetables, cottage cheese, salads and egg dishes.

The leaves can be infused in water to use as a skin freshener.

Chives give a hint of onion flavor to egg dishes, cheese soufflés, salads, soups, cream cheese sandwiches, and sour cream dressing for baked potatoes. Chive butter is great with grilled chops and steak.

Used as part of a holy anointing oil by the ancient Hebrews. Leaves of the tree were woven into wreaths to decorate Roman temples. The Egyptians used the oil during the mummification process. Burned to raise spiritual vibrations; to aid in healing, drawing money, stimulating psychic powers and protection.

Cinnamon has a fragrant perfume, taste aromatic and sweet - with a delicious flavour.

The hard, woody sticks of Cinnamon make an excellent incense, as they smoulder slowly releasing a potent energy.  Cinnamon has a high vibration, and can be added to most spells simply to boost their power.  On it's own, the power of Cinnamon can be used to achieve a higher state of spirituality and as an aid to clairvoyance and to stimulate psychic powers. 

Incorporated into a spell or charm, Cinnamon can be used to give your creativity a boost, and it can also be drawn upon to reinforce your will and determination.  The fast moving, successful, determined energy of Cinnamon make it an ideal addition to prosperity and success spells to draw money and increase your personal power, and aid in successful ventures.

Cleavers belong to the Rubiaceae family which includes the Bedstraw and Woodruff plants.  Many of the folk names of this species are derived from it's clingy nature. The specific name Aparine is derived from the Greek word aparo, to seize. Loveman is another nickname, and is simply an anglicized version of the Greek name Philanthropon, which described this plant's clinging nature.

Ruled by restrictive Saturn, it can be used to bind something close to you, and the Elemental ruler of Water associates it with love and our emotions.

There are two types of spells that come to mind when we think of binding magick.  Firstly is binding someone to stop them from doing harm to yourself or your family, and secondly is binding someone to you in the sense of making a commitment to you (a marriage is a binding contract), this herb relates to the latter and Cleavers can be used to strengthen the bond in existing relationships.

Cleavers can be used in travel sachets or spells.  Sleep with a sachet of Cleavers several nights before departing and you will receive dreams about your upcoming journey.

Cloves are the sun-dried unopened flower buds of a dense evergreen tree, they have a strong spiciness that flavours foods. It is added to cosmetics, perfumes, and cigarettes.

Burned as an incense to attract riches, drive away hostile or negative forces, produce spiritual vibrations, purification, stop gossiping and bring comfort to the bereaved.

Coltsfoot goes by many names including: Ass's Foot, Bullsfoot, Clayweed, Cleats, Coughwort, Donnhove, Farfara, Fieldhove, Foalswort, Hallfoot, Horsehoof, Huki-Tanpopo, K'Uan Tung, Oksurukotu, Son-before-father, To Wu, Tusilago, Tussilago etc... 

Add to love sachets and use in spells of peace and tranquility. The leaves, when smoked, can cause visions.

The name Comfrey is thought to be derived from the Latin confervere or con firma, which means "to grow together". One of the folk names for Comfrey is "knitbone" and it has a long history in folk medicine and herbalism. The botanical name symphytum is derived from the Greek work sympho which means "to unite".

Comfrey is a powerful addition to travel spells and sachets, to protect you whilst you are away from home.  A sachet of comfrey can be worn when travelling to ensure protection, and comfrey can be packed in your luggage to make sure it doesn't go astray!

Comfrey can be used in dark moon and banishing rituals to aid you in releasing negative patterns, and especially for cutting your ties to negative relationships.  Burnt with Mugwort it will aid your concentration and visualization for all spell and ritual work.

Carry for safe travel. To ensure the safety of your luggage while travelling, tuck a piece of the root into each of your bags. Safe travel spells, money, healing, honouring the Crone aspect of the Goddess.

The whole of this annual is pungently aromatic. The spicy essential oil, distilled from the seeds, is used in perfumes and incense, flavours medicines and toothpaste.

Coriander oil works well in love and healing mixtures. The seeds are used for healing, and are worn for this purpose. Add the powdered seeds to warm wine to make an effective lust potion. Put some in the chalice for a hand fasting ritual.

Cumin is the dried fruit of a small herbaceous plant and it's use dates back Biblical times as an food flavour for ceremonial feasting.  According to the Bible, cumin seeds were so highly regarded and of value they could be used as currency in the payment of debts.

Cumin has a long history in folklore and folk magic as an ingredient in love and fidelity charms and potions.  It was (and still is in some parts of the world) believed that getting your beau to swallow some cumin would ensure their fidelity.  This was achieved in different manners by different cultures.

In Medieval Europe, cumin was commonly used as a safeguard against infidelity.  In Italy women would bake it into bread or serve it in wine and serve it to their sweethearts to ensure their continued attachment and fidelity.  Likewise in Germany a bride would carry Cumin, Dill and salt in her pocket during the marriage ceremony.  It was believed that this practice ensured a long and faithful union.  The Germans also associated Cumin with security and it was thought that anything containing this herb would be safe from theft.

This spice was also a common ingredient in granular incenses, and combined with Frankincense, makes a potent mixture for protection and exorcism.

Damiana is used in lust infusions as well as lust spells. It is also burned to produce visions.

Damiana has been hailed as an aphrodisiac in Mexico since ancient times.

Damiana is currently used as a liqueur ingredient in Mexico.

It was used as an aphrodisiac in ancient Mayan culture (no doubt with chocolate!), and monks reported the Mexican Indians would prepare a drink made from Damiana before lovemaking for greater power.

Research suggests that in some of the fertility rituals of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, smoking tobacco mixed with Damiana excited and stimulated the participants, allowing them to keep pace (and we thought the Romans had all the fun!)

Damiana can be added to potions and spells to increase arousal and sexual energy.  Useful for those who use kundalini, sacred sex or tantric energy as part of their worship or spell working. 

Damiana isn't just a herb of lust though, it can also be a potent ingredient in love charms and spells.  Linked with the Page of Cups in the Tarot this herb can be used to attract a new partner, or add a youthful new energy to an existing relationship.   Also a useful herb for promoting self love, and greater confidence in relationships.  Self love and self confidence is one what makes us stand out from the crowd and get noticed!

Damiana was burnt in a ceremonious manner to enable visions.  This is probably why it is said to induce visions when burned during rituals, and when made into a tea it can promote psychic awareness.

Summoning spirits, healing, purification and defeating negativity. Bury in northwest corner of the garden to bring favourable winds. Use in sachets and charms to make wishes come true.

Divination, welcoming, messages. Magickally used the same as the leaf.

The ground and roasted root can act as a coffee substitute.

The taste of dill leaves resembles that of caraway, while the seeds are pungent and aromatic. Dill Herb enhances the flavour of dips, herb butter, soups, salads, fish dishes, and salads. The seeds are used in pickling and can also improve the taste of roasts, stews and vegetables.

Try grinding the seeds to use as a salt substitute. Both the flowering heads and seeds are used in flavoured vinegars and oils.

Uniquely flavoured, Dill offers culinary "seeds" and leaves, but the choicest flavour is in the fresh immature green seed heads. They give character to dill pickles, vinegar and potato salad. Distilled seed oil is colourless to pale yellow, with a light, fresh, warm-spicy scent and flavours drinks and food.

Seeds draw money, Leaves for protection, Flowers for love and defense. Protective when hung at the door, no one ill-disposed or envious of you can enter your house.