Dried Herbs Q - S

All of our herbs are sold in dried form, are of the highest grade available non irradiated and GMO free, are Wild harvested and none of our products have been tested on animals.

All our Dried herbs are available in quantities from 25g up to 250g and are packed in a food grade polythene resealable bag.

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Raspberry Leaf - Rubus idaeus

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Use raspberry in love and protection mixtures and spells.

Red Rose Petals - Rosa Damascena

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The Rose has aromatic, cosmetic, medicinal, culinary, and craft uses. Fresh petals and rosewater flavour sweet and savory dishes and are crystallized for decoration. Associated with pure love and femininity, it is valued by aromatherapists for it's rejuvenating qualities. Adding twice the petals’ weight of sugar and infusing in hot water can make rose petal syrup.

The Rose is a Goddess herb belonging to Venus and the Water element. Rose is the accepted love scent. Rose buds & petals are added to bath water to conjure a lover. Place some in a red cloth bag and pin it under your clothes.

True rose essential oil (known as Otto) and rose absolute are expensive but worth it, one drop has powerful properties. DO NOT use synthetics. Rose oil is used in formulas designed to attract love, confer peace, stimulate sexual appetites, and enhance beauty.

A tea of rose petals drunk before sleep induces prophetic dreams. Rose petals are used in healing spells and mixtures. Sprinkled around the house calm personal stress and household upheavals. Roses planted in the garden attract fairies and are said to grow best when stolen.

The most popular use for Rose Petals is at weddings, a truely memorable experience, being showered in Rose Petals and its cheaper and more environmentally friendly than confetti.

Burn as incense for : Healing; Health; Love; Luck; Creativity; Balance; Anointing; Divination; Clairvoyance; Protection; Psychic Awareness.

Rose Hip Fruits (Whole) - Rosa canina

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Used magically in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good spirits.

Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis

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Magical uses: This is a powerful cleanser and purifier. Burn before rituals of any kind to clear negative energies, use in ritual baths for purification, use as a handwash before healing work. Use in incense for love and lust.

Burn with Juniper berries in a sickroom to promote healing, place under a pillow to promote peaceful sleep. Particularly powerful used in healing Poppets.

Burned on charcoal, inhaling the smoke is believed to enlighten and provide answers to questions

Rowan Berries - Pyrus aucuparia

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Also known as Mountain Ash, Witch wood, Witch bane, and Sorb Apple. A Druid sacred tree and sacred to the goddess Bride/Brigit, Rowan bears clusters of spring flowers and bright red berries in autumn, when the leaves may turn red.

Rowan is a traditional country charm against witchcraft.

Rowan is said to have come from the land of Fairy and as such is a very magical tree used for wands, rods, amulets, and spells. All parts of the tree are sacred. Make a tea with a few of the ripe berries and add it to the ritual chalice.

A forked branch can help find water. Wands are for knowledge, locating metal, and general divination. Fires made of Rowan serve to summon spirits, especially when facing conflicts. Incense of leaves and berries for divination. Grow for protection of home.

Carrying Rowan increases psychic powers. Rowan carried on board ship will prevent its involvement in storms; kept in the house it guards against lightening strikes, and when planted on a grave Rowan keeps the deceased one from haunting the place. Rowans growing near stone circles are the most potent. The leaf and berry are used in incense to increase psychic powers. Wear a tiny cross of rowan wood somewhere in your clothing for protection.

Rue Herb - Ruta graveolens

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Also known as Herb of Grace. This evergreen shrub has yellow summer flowers and deeply divided, bluish, aromatic leaves. 

Ancient Celts considered Rue an anti-magical herb, which is a defense against spells and dark magic. A fresh sprig can be used to sprinkle sacred water for consecration, blessings and healings. Burned in exorcism or purification incenses, it routs negativity and gets things moving. Used in altar oil, blessing, purifying, cleansing, consecration, protection, banishing, releasing, exorcism, inspiration, wisdom.

Rue added to baths breaks all hexes and curses that may have been cast against you. Rue is another plant said to grow best when stolen, and indeed its presence in the garden beautifies and protects it. For some reason, toads have an aversion to Rue.

Victims of hexes and curses add rue to baths to break the spell of Witches, Santeros and Black Magickians. Rue is added to spiritual healing and Exorcism formulas.

Rue is placed at the entrances to homes and businesses to keep malevolent spirits out. It was used to protect against the Black Death, and floors are rubbed with rue to repel fleas. Rue was kept around Roman temples to Mars and is considered sacred to Diana and Aradia as well.

Sandalwood Chips, Red - Pterocarpus santalinus

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Sandalwood makes a popular incense, as its calming effect aids meditation. It is commonly used for funeral pyres in India, where devotees believe the scent protects places from evil spirits. 

Sandalwood powder is burned during protection, healing and exorcism spells. When mixed with lavender it makes an incense designed to conjure spirits. This wood possesses very high spiritual vibrations and is mixed with Frankincense and burned at séances and Full Moon rituals. Powdered sandalwood can be scattered about a place to clear it of negativity.

Sandalwood beads are protective and promote a spiritual awareness when worn. Sandalwood oil placed on the forehead aids in focusing the mind. The scent opens the highest spiritual centers and so makes an appropriate incense for rituals, exorcisms, and healings.

The scents of frankincense and sandalwood have some of the highest vibrations inherent in any plant. They will resonate with aspects of ourselves or with Devic/Angelic beings of the highest order. Rose is another herb held to have that frequency, thus attracting or eliciting the highest spiritual vibrations from within ourselves and the cosmos. Sandalwood is used as an incense base for: Protection, Healing, Exorcise, Spirituality, Wishes, Full Moon Esbats, Wards Negativity, Astral Projection, Reincarnation, Spirit Offering. 

Red Sandalwood is used in all forms of Meditation, Divination, and trance-work. It Calms the mind, and allows the Spiritual aspects of the self to do their work with confidence and ease. It carries the virtue of success with it, and should be added to Magickal incense.

Red Sandalwood is an appropriate herb to consecrate the altar cloth - It vibrates with Hod on the Tree of Life.

Scatter sandalwood to clear a place of negativity. Burn for protection and healing. Possesses high spiritual vibrations especially when mixed with frankincense and burned at the full moon. Mix with lavender to make an incense designed to conjure spirits.

In the orient, sandalwood is a funeral herb believed to carry the soul into the next life. With sandalwood, deep states of relaxation take place on the spiritual level. Burning sandalwood incense can benefit healing work by promoting a deeper relaxed state in the healer, increasing spiritual energy. Sandalwood also relaxes the heart and throat chakras.

Sarsaparilla Root - Smilax ornata

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Sarsaparilla when mixed with cinnamon and sandalwood powder and sprinkled around the premises to draw money. It is also utilized in love spells.

Shepherds Purse - Capsella bursa pastoris

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Shepherd's Purse correlates with the solar plexus chakra, our centre of self and self esteem, our centre of will and personal power.  Working with this herb helps to bolster your emotional strength and is said to be refreshing to the spirit.  With a decidedly feminine nature, this herb can be of benefit to woman who are struggling to find who they are, and are overly influenced by the wills and desires of others.  Meditating with and carrying Shepherd's Purse can aid you in finding your own purpose.

The Shepherd's Purse plant is associated with the Crone aspect of the Triple Goddess, and is sacred to Hecate.  In mythology Hecate was given the task of guiding Persephone between the worlds when she made her annual journey from her mother Demeter to her lover Hades.  Hecate holds a torch in the darkness to guide us.  You can use Shepherd's Purse to connect to Hecate, asking her to cut through the veil of mystery and reveal any illusions that have been misleading you, allowing you to see what really lies ahead.  Use during the dark moon for divination purposes, especially for trying to find the truth in a situation that has caused confusion or doubt.   

Add to incenses and sachets to celebrate the feminine, and for rituals to honour our monthly cycle or our transition into Cronehood.

St. Johns Wort Herb - Hypericum perforatum

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A Druid sacred herb, the Celts passed it through the smoke of the Summer Solstice fire, then wore it in battle for invincibility. This herb has woody-based stems, with pairs of small, balsamic-scented leaves and clusters of lemon-scented, yellow summer flowers.

It is reputed when worn, St. John's Wort wards off fevers and colds, makes soldiers invincible, and attracts love. If it is gathered on Midsummer or on a Friday and worn it is said to keep mental illness at bay and cure melancholy. When placed in a jar and hung by a window, St. John's Wort protects against thunderbolts, fire and evil spirits. Both flowers and leaves are used for this purpose.

It is also dried over the Midsummer fires and hung near the window to keep ghosts, necromancers and other evil doers from the house, and is burned to banish spirits and demons. Any part of the herb placed beneath the pillow allows unmarried women to dream of their future husbands. Use in rituals or carry to detect other magicians; at one time it was held to the mouth of accused Witches to attempt to force them to confess.

The Welsh called this plant "leaf of the blessed." It was understood to be an idea combination of water and fire, the ultimate healing essence. Fire symbolized the fruitful light-filled forces of summer, and water the gathering and settling forces of the dark season. Midsummer was the time of balance between these forces of light and dark. Burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, health and willpower. Gather at Litha or on a Friday and worn it will keep mental illness at bay and also cure melancholy. When placed in a jar and hung by a window,

St. John's Wrote protects against thunderbolts, fire and evil spirits. Both flowers and leaves are used for this purpose. At one time St. John's Wort was held to the mouth of accused Witches to attempt to force them to confess.

Magickally we can use this herb in spells to help shift the blues and raise spirits.  Emotional depression is often a matter of feeling lost and alone in the dark, not being able to see the light.  Once again calling upon the Sun's energy, St John's Wort it is bright and optimistic.  Spiritually it helps to calm feelings of fear, depression and frustration, allowing us a greater freedom of thought.

Sunflower Petals, Cut - Helianthus annus

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This fast-growing annual has a thick, tall, hairy stem, heart-shaped leaves, and large yellow flower heads in late summer. The nutritious seeds are eaten raw, roasted, and ground into meal or nut butter and were used by Native American warriors as "energy cakes." The flower buds give a yellow dye and are cooked like artichokes. The pressed seeds yield an all-purpose oil with culinary, cosmetic, and industrial uses. The seed heads provide food for birds in winter.

A native of Peru and Mexico, the sunflower or "Marigold of Peru" was introduced into this country in the 16th century. It was much revered by the Aztecs in their Temples of the Sun. Use sunflower petals as a bathing herb to bring happiness and replace sorrow with joy. Sunflower corresponds to the Sun card of the tarot. Use to consecrate stones which will be used for healing. To know the truth about any matter, sleep with a sunflower under the bed. Sunflower is known as the herb of immortality. It is the patron herb for Leo and Virgo, and is said to attract dragons 

In Aztec temples of the sun, priestesses carried sunflowers and wore them as crowns. As sun symbols, these flowers symbolize the healthy ego, the wisdom, and the fertility of the solar logos.

If you cut a sunflower at sunset while making a wish, the wish will come true before another sunset - as long as the wish isn't too grand. Sleeping with a sunflower under the bed allows you to know the truth in any matter. If you wish to become virtuous, anoint yourself with juice pressed from the stems of the sunflower. Sunflowers growing in the garden guard it against pests and grant the best of luck to the gardener.