Just like all living things in nature, botanicals have their personalities, origins, actions, and innate wisdom.
At Sacred Smoke and Rituals, we’re excited about sharing the botanicals we use in our core line. As we draw from thousands of years of herbal traditions (the roots of modern medicine), we provide you with a profile on each plant’s origins, medicinal benefits, energetics, and spiritual correspondences.
We hope to feed your curiosity, awaken your botanical potential, and tap into the ancient knowledge you hold within your bones.
Apple
(Malus domestica)
Origin: Kazastan, Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Moon
Elemental Influence:
Water (Fruit), Earth (tree)
Air (leaves and blossoms)
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Sweet, slightly sour (depending on variety)
Constitutional Action: Nutritive,
gentle astringent, toning to the digestive system, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and blood sugar–supportive actions.
**Avoid extensive use without guidance. Apple leaves contain cyanogenic compounds (like amygdalin), especially when raw or in high quantities.
Do not use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Not for use in those with sensitivity to the Rosaceae family
Spiritual Correspondences:
Immortality, ancestors, Otherworld, love, abundance, fertility, and divinization. Feminine wisdom, intuition, and sacred sexuality. The core (and star shape of the seeds) represents hidden magic and inner knowing.
Cuts through confusion. Spiritual cleasning when working with ancestral and inherited emotional patterns.
Tincture:
Heart health support, digestion, mild astringent for loose stools or inflammation , possible cancer prevention, diabetic risk reduction, weight managment support. Metabolic balance emerging use in blood sugar support formulas
Blue Cornflower
(Centaurea cyanus)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Sun, Saturn
Elemental Influence: Air,
Fire
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Slightly drying
Taste: Sweet, slightly bitter
Constitutional Action: Astringent, anti-inflammatory, soothing, bitter tonic, lymphagogue (improves lymphatic flow)
Spiritual Correspondances:
Known as the "Seer’s flower." Used in rituals for clarity, foresight, and second sight, clairvoyance. Enhances psychic vision and dream clarity. Excellent herb for divination and activating inutition. Awakening to higher self- knowledge. Supports communication with calm and grace. Associated with divine feminine wisdom.
Medicinal Uses: Supports urinary tract function and lymphatic movement, sooths menstrual issues, anti-infammatory, help irritated eyes and skin.
Burdock
(Arctium lappa)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus
Elemental Influence Earth
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: BitterSweet, slightly mineral, salty
Constitutional Action: Alternative, lymphagogue (stimulates lymph flow), detoxifier, nutritive
Spiritual Correspondances:
Supports personal resilience and release of long-held energetic burdens, protective to aid in feeling secure and confident in releasing actions.
Medicial Uses: Diuretic, detoxifier, liver support, digestive support nourishing gut bacteria, anti-inflammatory, blood sugar management.
Catnip
(Nepeta cataria)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Jupiter
Elemental Influence: Water,
Air
Energetics:
Temperature: Warming
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Slightly Bitter
Constitutional Action: Nervine Calmative (calms the nervous system; feel less anxious)
diaphoretic (heavy sweating),
carminative (relieves gas)
Spiritual Correspondances:
Enhances psychic receptivity and dream work. Strong intuitive aid. Associated with dreamwork, vision, and clairvoyancy. Wards off negativity. Opens the heart to joy and playfulness. Protective and cleansing for the aura
Invites lightheartedness and gentle laughter.
Medicinal Uses:
Traditionally used as a mild sedative and relaxant.Relieves anxiety, insomnia, and nervous tension. Eases digestive discomfort such as cramps and gas.
Anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic properties
Encourages sweating during colds and flu. Clears mental fog and promotes clarity.
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Chamomile
(Matricaria chamomilla)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence:
Sun
Elemental Influence: Water
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, aromatic, slightly sweet
Constitutional Action: Anti-inflammatory, nervine, carminative (relieves gas)
*People sensitive to plants in the Asteraceae family (like ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds) may experience allergic reactions to wild lettuce. People with respiratory issues please consult a physician before use.
Spiritual Correspondances: protection, and blessings. Encourages peace, joy, and inner radiance. Attracts abundance and prosperity and connected to joy.
Medicinal Uses:
Eases anxiety, tension, and insomnia. Soothes digestive issues and inflammation. Mild sedative and calming tonic.
Dandelion
(Taraxacum officinale)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Jupiter,
Sun (esoteric roots)
Elemental Influence: Air (leaf)
Earth (root), Fire (flower)
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, slightly sweet
Constitutional Action: Nutritive, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, prebiotic, Diuretic, supports liver detoxification, laxative, tonic
* Caution to use when on
antibiotics, blood thinners, diuretics, and medications metabolized by the liver,
Spiritual Correspondances:
Used for wishes and calling spirits. Employed in dreamwork and divination. Represents resilience and transformation. Cleanse blood (for blood lines) and adds vitality. Grief medicine, brightens spirit, infuses joy, deeply rooting, ancestral healing, and clearing bitterness, Will power to stand in adversity. Resilience and adaptability.
Tincture:
Antioxidant, supports bone health, lowers blood pressure, aid in digestion, diuretic properties aids relief with UTIs, and weight loss. Mild laxitive effect.
Clears skin conditions linked to internal heat and stagnation. Supports digestion, especially in sluggish or greasy digestion. Balances hormones by improving liver clearance
Gently detoxifies blood, lymphs, and liver. Reduces the risk of certain types of cancer. Immune support
Datura
(Datura stramonium)
Origin: The Americas
Planetary Influence: Saturn,
Pluto, Moon (shadow work)
Elemental Influence: Fire, Air,
and Spirit
Energetics:
Temperature: Hot
Moisture: Dry
Taste: Acrid, bitter (toxic)
Constitutional Action: Nutritive,
Gently astringent, toning to the digestive system.
** Use with deep respect. Datura is a powerful and potentially
poisonous plant ally. The flower essence contains no physical constituents and is used purely on an energetic level.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Transformation, letting go, and expanded perception. Dissolve illusions and perceptions, let go of a relationship, or ideas of control. Ushes out of denial, removes energy of shattered dreams, and limiting beliefs. Clears for higher and deeper point of view. Shadow integration, alchemical support, supports rebirthig. Unbinding. Ego Death. Liminal spaces.
Flower Essence:
Energetic and spiritual purification, helping to cleanse negative energies and facilitate transformation. Help release toxins (mental, emotional, or physical) and energetic debris,
dissolve illusions and programming. Re-imagine ways of living with expansive thinking and new outlook on the world. Clears psychic intrusion, fear-based illusions, and ancestral bindings
Supports radical soul alchemy, letting go of ego identities and masks
Echinacea
(Echinacea purpurea)
Origin: Europe, North America
Planetary Influence: Mars
and Pluto (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Fire,
Earth and Water (subtle)
Energetics:
Temperature: Cool, stimulant
Moisture: Dry to neutral
Taste: Bitter, pungent, acrid, tingling.
Constitutional Action: Immune system and circulatory stimulant, Immune Stimulant,
lymphagogue (promotes lymphatic flow) sialagogue (promotes secretion of saliva), alternative, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety)
* May stimulate T-cells in autoimmune disorders like lupus and MS. Use with caution to those with ragweed allergies.
Spiritual Correspondences: Protector of boundaries—both physical and energetic. Shore up the aura, seal energy leaks, restore sovereignty, and ward off psychic "infection" from draining people or spaces. Brings truth to the surface for clarity and strength in will power. Spiritual anti-venom against "poisoins"
Medicinal Uses: Stimulate immune system, helps move congested lymph, reduce swelling in lymph nodes, and clear waste from the immune system, Reduces systemic and localized inflammation, helpful in sore throats, inflamed gums, urinary tract infections, and some chronic inflammatory conditions. Blood purifier.
Elderberry
(Sambucus canadensis,
Sambucus nigra)
Origin: North America, Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus
and Saturn
Elemental Influence: Water
and Earth
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Sweet, slightly sour (depending on variety)
Constitutional Action: Nutritive, toning, and stimulating to the gut,
gently astringent, toning to the digestive system, ocular health,
Spiritual Correspondances:
Protection from evil spirits, witches, and negative influences.
Strengthens emotional boundaries and immune resilience. Connects tto ancestral guidance and wise elder wisdom. Helps process grief, transition, and shadow emotions. Encourages self-trust during healing and protection work. Brings clarity in liminal states dreams, visions, or life changes to find right path.
Medicinal Uses: Anti-viral, strengthens and nourishes to support and tonify the immune system, anti-flammation and toning of the gut, optical health, cardiovascular health and respitory support.
Foxglove
(Digitalis purpurea)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Saturn
Elemental Influence: Water,
Spirit.
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Bitter (toxic)
Constitutional Action: Addresses the emotional heart, energetic boundaries, and psychic sensitivity.on: Cardiotonic, stimulant (medications that strengthen the heart's pumping blood).
**Use with deep respect.
Foxglove is a powerful and potentially poisonous plant ally.
The flower essence contains no physical constituents and is used purely on an energetic level.
Spiritual Correspondances:
A gentle protector of the emotional, spiritual, and energetic bodies—especially around the heart, courage, and truth.
It soothes and softens the heart, restoring calm and wholeness, and invites fluid movement through emotional blocks.
This ally offers clear insight and discernment, revealing what must be released. A boundary guardian between life and death and shadow worlds. Helps us walk with awareness and grace.
Flower Essence:
Protective, strengthening
grounding, heart-shielding, clears illusions of the heart. Boosts self-confidence, soothes heightened emotions, creates larity and calm. Unify heart and mind. Reduces burnout, aiding in knowing what is a priority and what needs to be released. Its protective quality makes it a barrier for any harmful outside energies as any negative self-imposed thoughts. A protector of ancient knowing and a guardian for those who walk between worlds.
Lady's Mantle
(Alchemilla vulgaris)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Moon
Elemental Influence: Water,
Earth
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, tannin-rich, slightly salty.
Constitutional Action: Gently astringent, tonifying,
vulnerary (heals wounds), mild nutritive, anti-inflammatory
Spiritual Correspondances:Carries the Divine Feminine in her protective, nurturing form. The shape of the leaves wards off evil, serving as a talisman of safety and strength.
Used in rituals of protection, especially for motherhood, fertility, and the emotional body. Supports healing around guilt, shame, and ancestral feminine wounds, and nourishes a deeper connection to the womb and matrilineal lineages. Brings a sense of wholeness, safety, and embodied grace.
Medicinal Uses: Uterine tonic, aids with slowing down excessive bleeding during heavy periods and gently eases menstrual cramps.
Lavender
(Lavandula angustifolia)
Origin: Mediterranean
Planetary Influence: Mercury,
Venus
Elemental Influence: Air, Water
Energetics:
Temperature: Cooling (internal)
Warming (external)
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, Aromatic
Constitutional Action: Analgesic (pain reliever), anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), antidepressant, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, aromatic, astringent, bitter, carminative (relieves gas), hypotensive (lowers blood pressure), relaxant nervine
Spiritual Correspondances: Calms the "mental chatter" that often blocks intuitive messages and gently opens the inner ear to receive quiet, subtle wisdom. Supports clairvoyance, dream recall, and gentle trance states.
Protective, calms the spirit and clears the mind, balances emotions and bridges to higher wisdom, enchances intuition, spiritual awareness, and dream connection. Builds trust to hear and follow inner guidance without external validation. Enhance prophetic dreams, banish nightmares, and induce peaceful sleep.
Medicinal Uses: Helps sooth anxiety, lift up from depression, sleep aid. Mild sedative, digestive support by easing nervous stomach, gas, and bloating, anti-inflammatory, headache, migraine and muscle pain relief, ease menstrual discomfort. A respitory aid.
Lemon Balm
(Melissa officinalis)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Influence: Moon
Elemental Influence: Water
and Air (esoteric)
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Sour, sweet, aromatic
Constitutional Action: Carminative, Nervine relaxant, diaphoretic relaxant (reduces sweating) cardiac nervine, antispasmodic,
anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), antiviral
Spiritual Correspondances: Uplifts heart heaviness like depression, grief, sadness, brightens mood. Lightens spirit, relaxes to relese and open, calm nerves, encourage tending to one's spirit.
Medicinal Uses: Calms nervous system, clears the mind, reduce bloating, promotes gastrointestional health, aids in sleep and boosts mood and cognitive function, reduce stress.
*Lemon balm may lower thyroid levels; consult a medical practitioner and use cautiously in hypothyroidism and with thyroid hormone replacement.
Lemon Thyme
(Thymus ×citriodorus)
Origin: EuropemMediterrian
Planetary Influence Sun, Mars,
and Mercury
Elemental Influence: Fire
and Air
Temperature: Warming
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Pungent, slightly bitter,
aromatic
Constitutional Action: Antimicrobial, antispasmodic, carminative (relieves gas) expectorant, nervine tonic, digestive aid
Spiritual Correspondances: Joyful protection, mood lifter, grief soother. Break up stuck emotions, mental fog, and fatigue (especially after heavy energetics or illness), voice activation with gentle strength and honest expression, clear speech, spiritual protection through vitality instead of fear, shields with warmth, light. Brings boldness to access ancient wisdom through voice and memory of the dead and light from the ancestors. Clear heart and true voice.
Medicinal Uses: Respitory support, soothes cough and opens airways, antimicrobial and expectorant; helpful in bronchitis, sinus congestion, and seasonal allergies, effective against candida, digestive aid soothing bloating, gas, and
Lemon Verbena
(Aloysia citrodora)
Origin: The Americas
Planetary Influence Mercury
and Moon (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Air
and Water
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Slightly drying
Taste: Sweet, citrusy, aromatic
Constitutional Action: Digestive tonic, detoxifier, nervine relaxant, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), aromatic relaxant, anti-depressant, expectorant.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Protection, purification, and attracting positivity.
Enhances clarity, eloquence, and focus. Lifts spirit, clear mental heaviness, emotionally cleansing, enchanses intuition, raises vibration, purifys and renews enery, opens the heart, speak honesty and authentically with clear insight. Emotional healer staying relaxed, centered, and confident.
Medicinal Uses: Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant aids in muscle recovery, reduces joint pain, eases anxiety. Promotes better sleep, relieves congestion, natural expectorant.
Lichen
(Usnea filipendula)
Origin: Present globally
Planetary Influence: Saturn,
Moon (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Earth, Air, Water
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying and protective
Taste: Bitter, earthly
Constitutional Action: Mildly astringent, antimicrobial, stimulates immunity, antifungal
*Avoid if pregnant or on liver-compromised medications without guidance from a clinical herbalist.
** Ecologically sensitive. We sustainably forage from what has fallen.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Resilience, adaptation, and ancient remembering, symbiotic cooperation and collective healing, Invites us to deep time, slow down, remember our bones, and listen. Energetic integrity in those who feel porous or overwhelmed. Integrate body, breath, and spirit to anchor in wholeness. Aura cleanser. Forest and land connection.
Flower Essence: Soft ego teacher, promotes positive thoughts and behaviors in social settings. Highlights patience and empathy, emphasizes interconnection for our hearts, minds, and souls to feel the vast realness in it all. Aids in subtle body healing, and spiritual fatigue recovery.
Mandrake
(Mandragora officinarum)
Origin: Mediterranean
Planetary Influence: Saturn,
Mercury, Venus (estoeric)
Elemental Influence: Earth,
and Water
Temperature: warming, sedating,
narcotic
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, pungent
Constitutional Action: Nutritive,
gentle astringent, toning to the digestive system
** Use with deep respect.
Mandrake is a powerful and potentially poisonous plant ally.
The flower essence contains no physical constituents and is used purely on an energetic level.
Approach with clear intention, humility, and grounding. Mandrake is a potent ally, not to be treated lightly.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Threshold plant,uncover what is hidden within the psyche, the ancestral line, or the unconscious mind. In dream and ritual work, it brings clarity to the unseen, shadow work, portal to the spirit world. Aids in clearing curses, hexes, and psychic entanglements.
Flower Essence: Intuition, visions, and dreams, deepen trust with inner knowing, deepen connection psychic potency and higher self. Brings subconscious into conscious awareness and provides protection in liminal spaces.
Moss
(Bryophyta)
Origin: Present Globally
Planetary Influence: Moon,
Saturn, Neptune (esoteric)
Elemental Influence Water, Earth, Air (subtle)
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Mild, earthy
Constitutional Action: Antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antiseptic, analgesic (reduces pain), eases respiratory issues
Spiritual Correspondances: Grounds scattered and nervous energy, softness in boundaries, patience, deep listening, emotional well-being, personal growth, release of judgement, adds joy, play,
and freedom, emotional resilience and rehydration to the soul, relaxing, confident, self-love, kindness. Brings body in harmony with nature. Deep remembering.
Flower Essence:
Calms emotional overload, supports feeling secure in stillness, grounds, keeps bounadries, and heals energy leaks. Enhances intuition, quiet receptivity, and the ability to listen deeply. Reconnects with childhood innconce and somatic presence. To anchor into gentle self- confidence, joy, and kindness. Dissolves harmful thoughts and energy lending to feeling of emotional freedom.
Milky Oat Tops
(Avena sativa)
Origin: Eastern Europe
Planetary Influence: Moon, Venus, Jupiter
Elemental Influence: Earth, Water
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Sweet, green, mild.
Constitutional Action:
Deep nutritive, gently astringent, toning. Antispasmodic nervine, Nervine Trophorestorative, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), demulcent, nootopic (improves memory and focus)
Antidepressant, diaphoretic (induces sweating). reproductive tonic, diuretic, endocrine tonic.
Spiritual Correspondances: Very restorative and nurturing. Emotionally supportive, espeically for empaths, protects open heart, sense of safety in the body, encouraging embodied presence, resets relationship to feeling pleasure in the body. Seals and repairs, reweaves frayed aura.
Medicinal Uses: Restores,stengthens,
relaxes, and resets nevous system, supports cardiovascular health, lowers blood sugar and high blood pressue, improve cognitive funcation, emotional support especiall when overwhelemed, hormonal support for menstrual cycle transitions, perimenopausal, and
post partdom when depleted. Promotes restful sleep,
Mugwort
(Artemesia vulgaris )
Origin: Europe, naturalized in the United States
Planetary Influence: Moon, Venus, Mercury (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Earth, Air, Fire, Water (subtle)
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Warming, drying
Taste: Bitter, slightly pungent, aromatic
Constitutional Action: Antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antioxidant, antispasmodic, antiviral, Carminative (relieves gas), cholagogue (produces bile), diaphoretic (induces sweating), emmenagogue (stimulates / increases menstrual flow), expectorant, hemostatic (controls bleeding), Nervine, Uterine tonic.
*Avoid use during pregnancy. Avoid if taking Warfarin, anticoagulants, blood thinners, or salicylates.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Dream and vision work, strengthens intuition and insight, psychic protection, courage to face the unknown, illuminates hidden information and burns through illusion. Deep feminine wisdom connecting to womb consciousness, ancestral healing, wards off evil. Helpful in detecting depletion of energy.
Medicinal Uses: Stimulates appetite, aids digestion,supports assimilation, reduces bloating and gas. Menstrual ally in easing cramps, regulating cycle, and supports uterine health. Relaxant and slightly sedative, supports calm, clarity, and introspection,. Anti-inflammatory and has anti-parasitic properties.
Nettle
(Urtica dioica)
Origin: Europe, North America
Planetary Influence: Mars, Saturn (roots)
Elemental Influence: Fire, Earth, Water (seeds)
Temperature: Warming
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, slightly salty
Constitutional Action: Nutritive,
astringent, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, endocrine supporter, mild diuretic.
*Use with caution if taking lithium or digoxin.
Spiritual Correspondances: Builds up and guards vital energy. Strengthens energetic boundaries and self-worth. Teaches respect, alertness, and protection. Brings clarity, willpower, and right action. Clears victimhood, stagnation, and martyr patterns. Revitalizes those feeling drained, angry, or disconnected from their fire.
Medicinal Uses:
Nutrient-rich, abundant in iron, calcium, magnesium, silica, potassium, and chlorophyll. Restores vitality. Natural antihistamine and anti-inflammatory. Diuretic. Supports menstrual health and balances estrogen. Helpful in menstrual irregularities, anemia, and fatigue. Boosts energy levels and balance blood sugar levels.
Oat straw
(Avena sativa)
Origin: Eastern Europe
Planetary Influence: Moon, Venus, Saturn (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Water, Earth
Temperature: Cooling to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Mild, grassy, sweet-mineral
Constitutional Action: Deep nutritive, nervine, diuretic properties. Kidney, urinary, and cardiovascular support, analgesic (pain reliever)
Spiritual Correspondances: Grounding, emotional balance, and resilience through inner strength. Reconnects body and spirit to feeling rooted, secure, and supported, coming back home to oneself. Nourishing, reminder to rest vs overgive. Reminder to carry own power. Supports creative flow, intuition, and mental clarity.
Medicinal uses: Non-sedative. Nutrient-rich- high in calcium, magnesium, silica, iron, B vitamins, and trace minerals. Nervine support for improved focus and recall. Calming and nourishing nervous system. Aids in restful sleep. Beneficial for bone health, especially in menopausal women. Improve blood flow and strengthens bones. Kidney, urinary, cardiovascular support. Alleviates cramping related to period. Nourishes strength of hair, nails, and bones (that includes teeth).
Peppermint
(Mentha x piperita)
Origin: Europe, naturalized gloabally
Planetary Influence: Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, Mars (through heat)
Elemental Influence: Air,
Water, Fire (moderate)
Temperature: Cooling, slightly bitter, sharp
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Sweet, slightly sour (depending on variety)
Constitutional Action: Analgesic (topical), antidepressant, antiviral, antispasmodic, carminative (relieves gas), diaphoretic (causes mild sweating), stimulating, dispersive, aromatic
Spiritual Correspondances: Cleansing, purifying,. Clears energetic debris and stagnant thought for mental precision and psychic cleansing. Cuts through distraction, supporting ritual focus, study, crafting and divination clarity. Opens the chest, lungs, and throat, especially when one feels silenced, repressed, or emotionally stifled. Supports assertive speech and confident truth-telling.
Visionary botanical, enhance mental receptivity, uplift the spirit and encourage clairvoyant dreams.
Medicinal Uses: Digestive ally, carminative, anti- spasmodic, respiratory and nervous system reset. Clears mental fog,. Internally, reduces heat states like acid reflux, hot flashes, or anger-based tension. Relieves intestinal spasms and menstrual cramps.
Plantain
(Plantago major)
Origin: Europe, naturalized
in North America
Planetary Influence: Venus, Saturn
Elemental Influence: Water, Earth
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Moistening,
Drying (tightening)
Taste: Neutral to salty, slightly bitter
Constitutional Action: Binding, soothing, vulnerary (wound healing), expectorant, diuretic, demulcent (relieves inflammation of mucus lining of throat), astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, alterative, hepatoprotective (protects from liver damage), hemostatic (stops blood flow), analgesic (pain reliever)
Spiritual Correspondances: Establishes boundaries after emotional or physical trauma, removes cords, seal leaks, and reclaim your grounded self. Sacred Celtic botanical for protection.
Tincture Benefits: Soothing and protecting for the body from the harmful effects of illness, inflammation, allergies and depletion. Relieves pain. Rich in nutrients such as Vit A and C and phytochemicals, immune stimulating. Internally supports cellular regeneration.
Soothes dry, irritated coughs, sore throats. A urinary and digestive tract healer, blood purifier and lymph mover, The prebiotic properties aid in treating digestive issues.
Rose
(Rosa centifolia)
Origin: Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Moon, Mars (subtle-thorns)
Elemental Influence: Water,
Air, Earth, Fire (subtle)
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Sweet, slightly bitter.
Constitutional Action:
Anti-inflammatory, astringent,
analgesic (pain reliever), antidepressant, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), cardiotonic (mild), nervine, mild sedative, antidiabetic, diuretic
Spiritual Correspondances: Opens and shields heart, grief companion and emotional alchemist turning grief and sorrow into beauty. Emotional resilience, divine feminine, spiritual nourishment, protection (thorns). Love, beauty, attraction, protection. Highest western culture vibrational flower attuning body to divine self love and compassion. Vulnerability with healthy boundaries. Uplifts mind, body, spirit. Comforting.
Medicinal Uses: Heart tonic and nervine, antioxidants, including vitamin C and polyphenols aiding in prevention of heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders, pain reliever, aids with menstrual discomfort,
Skullcap
(Scutellaria lateriflora)
Origin: North America, Europe
Planetary Influence: Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto
Elemental Influence Water, Air
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, Earthy
Constitutional Action: Anodyne, antibacterial, antispasmodic, astringent, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), bitter, brain tonic, cardiotonic (strengthens heart pumping blood), diuretic,
febrifuge (reduces fever), vasodilator (dilates blood cells), hypotensive (lowers blood pressure), nervine sedative, spinal cord tonic.
Spiritual Correspondances: Trancework, journeying, and astral projection. Take flight. Helps spirit stay secured to the body to return after journey.
Psychic protector, trauma recovery, spiritual fatigue, or dream healing, daily anchor during anxiety or recovery from overwork, calm mental energy promoting stillness, enhances dream recall, and inner silence.
Medicinal Uses: Nervine tonic and sedative, reduces insomnia due to circular thinking or tension, relieve chronic stress, burnout, nervous exhaustion, and mental fatigue, regular use tonifies nervous system, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) calms symptoms of PTSD. Security in body to reduce disassociation. Muscle relaxant, balances nervous system in hormonal shifts, relieves menstrual tension, cramps.
Spearmint
(Mentha spicata)
Origin: Europe, naturalized globally
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Mercury
Elemental Influence: Water,
Air
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying (slight)
Taste: Sweet, slightly pungent, cool, aromatic
Constitutional Action:
Anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic, anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), decongestant,
expectorant, antibacterial,
antifungal, Protects red blood cells, antioxidant, antispasmodic, antiviral, carminative (reduces gas), diuretic, febrifuge (reduces fever), nervine, disinfectant, sudorific (stimulates sweating), insecticidal, anti-inflammatory, reduces swelling, sedative, stimulant, stomachic. stant, expectorant
Spiritual Correspondances: Purification and protective. Clears parasidic attachments. Attract love and friendship. Clear speech, self-expression, and right timing. Clears mental static and opens breath to aid clarity in speech, truth-telling, and intention setting. Clears emotional heaviness, Awakens psychic potency. Sweetness to the self and spirit.
Medicinal Uses:
Digestive support,
eases gas, bloating, indigestion, and mild nausea, gently stimulates appetite and digestive juices. Calms and soothes. Clears mental fog, aleviates nevous migraines. Opens sinuses and chest, cools inflammation. Useful for mild coughs, throat tension, and summer colds. Fights bacterial infections and parasites. Aids in PMS symptoms and POS.
Tulsi
(Ocimum tenuiflorum)
Origin: India
Planetary Influence: Jupiter, Sun
Elemental Influence: Air, Fire
Temperature: Warming
to neutral
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Sweet, spicy, aromatic
Constitutional Action: Adaptogen, nervine, carminative (reduces gas), anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, digestive, supports upper respiratory system, insulin regulation
Spiritual Correspondances: Aids in prevention of over giving. Elevates the spirits, uplifts consciousness, enhances clarity, and harmonizes mind, body, and spirit. Clears spiritual heaviness, strengthens connection to Source, resilience, fortifies emotial intelligence and heart, boundary holder for empaths, balances nervous system, emotions, and energetic fields. Digests information and adapts. Clears mental fog.
Medicinal Uses: Relieves gas and bloating, stimulates digestion, immune boosting, respitory relief, insulin resistance, improves blood flow , therefore, can take in, absorb, retain, and recall information and improve focus. Helps body adapt to stress.
Wild Lettuce
(Lactuca virosa)
Origin: North America, Europe
Planetary Influence: Saturn,
Moon
Elemental Influence: Earth,
Water
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Bitter, slightly acrid, cooling
Constitutional Action: Sedative nervine, anodyne (analgesic), antispasmodic, hypnotic, emmenagogue (mild).
* For acute use during periods of restlessness, insomnia, body aches, or emotional agitation.
** Wild lettuce can affect the central nervous system and should be avoided if you are taking sedatives or other central nervous system depressants, including alcohol, opioids, or antihistamines.
Avoid use if pregnant or breastfeeding. People with narrow-angle glaucoma or an enlarged prostate (BPH) should avoid using wild lettuce as it may worsen these conditions. People sensitive to plants in the Asteraceae family (like ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds) may experience allergic reactions to wild lettuce.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Induce sleep, aid divination, and guide the dead. Feel secure in stillness and silence. Ritual dreamwork, banishment of pain. Pain relief, deep rest, emotional sedative.
Tincture Benefits: Nervine and sedative. Pain relief- including joint pain, deep rest, emotional sedative. Compounds like lactucin and lactucopicrin may reduce inflammation and have a mild sedative effect. Aidsin sleep relieving insomnia.
Take wild lettuce (alone or in blend) 30–45 minutes before bed.
Wild Violet
(Viola sororia)
Origin: North America, Europe
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Moon, Pluto (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Water, Earth
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Moistening
Taste: Slightly sweet.
Constitutional Action:
Demulcent (moistens and coats the throat), anti-inflammatory
expectorant, aterative, lymphagogue (promotes lymphatic fluid flow,)
vulnerary (promotes wound healing), antitumor, antirheumatic (supports joints and reduces inflammation and pain), diuretic, emollient (internal)
Spiritual Correspondances: Supports emotional vulnerability, softness, and being seen without fear. Heart-opening without oversharing, soft self-healing for hidden parts from shame, fear, or invisibility. Subtle shielding without hardening. Encourages inner reflection and the wisdom found in silence. Helps grief and trauma move slowly and gently. Honors the empath, introvert, healer, and observer. Embrace divine feminine and femine energy and self worth.
Tincture benefits: Pain and inflammation relief,
respiratory support soothing dry coughs, sore throats and congestion, lymphatic system support especially in underarms and breasts, detoxification, anticancer potential, cardiovascular health.
Wood Betony
(Stachys officinalis)
Origin: Kazastan, Europe
Planetary Influence: Jupiter,
Mercury
Elemental Influence: Earth,
Air
Temperature: Warming, grounding
Moisture: Drying/Cooling
Taste: Bittersweet
Constitutional Action: Alterative, analgesic (reduces pain) antispasmodic, astringent, aromatic, bitter, carminative (reduces gas), cerebral tonic, circulatory stimulant, diuretic, emetic, hepatotonic (supports liver health), hypoglycemic, hypotensive, nervine, mild sedative, styptic (causes bleeding to stop), vulnerary (heals wounds)
Spiritual Correspondances:
Promote rootedness, connection, earthiness and a sense of being grounded. Energetic protector, soul retrevial, and psychic boundary restoration. Calms the mind, grounds the spirit, and soothes the nerves. Restores embodied presence. Strengthens auric boundaries, especially when one is “too open” or energetically leaky. Protection from harmful energy.
Tincture: Grounds into the body feeling wholeness and balance.
Grounds scattered or anxious energysecure feeling being at home in body, calms anxiety, looping thoughts, and mental fatigueunite the nervous and digestive systems when there is a feeling of disconnectedness, ungroundedness, nervousness, and tension.
Wormwood
(Artemisia absinthium)
Origin: Europe
Planetary Associations: Mars,
Moon, Pluto, Saturn, Mercury
Elemental Influence: Fire,
Air, Earth, Water.
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying
Taste: Extremely bitter
Constitutional Action: Aromatic,
antiparasitic, antimicrobial, bitter tonic, carminative (reduces gas), emmenagogue (controls bleeding), tonic for nervous system.
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Typical dose: 5–15 drops, up to 3x daily. Always diluted in water due to its intense bitterness.
** AVOID use in pregnancy or breastfeeding – can stimulate uterine contractions***
Avoid long-term use or high doses (contains thujone – neurotoxic in excess)
May aggravate acid reflux in sensitive individuals
Use only in low doses as listed. Careful consideration is needed if you are seizure-prone.
* Approach Wormwood with reverence and intention.
Spiritual Correspondances:
Opens gates between worlds. Spirit communication, enhance psychic abilities, and offer protection against negative energies. Divination uses. Aid psychic reception, high spirits. Communication and facilitate clearer messages from beyond. Clears lingering cords and attachments from old patterns or people. Relieve anger and negativity. Aids those seeking ancestral memory and old way wisdom, dream insight, and shadow healing.
Tincture:
Supports digestion, reduces inflammation, and acts as an antiparasitic. Reduces inflammation and sublt pain reliever, anti-microbial and antifungal properties, support liver health stimulating bile production. Eases bloating, gas, and indigestion.
Enhances mental clarity, though in high doses can overstimulate. Emmenagogue-promotes menstrual flow (use cautiously). Aids in focus.
Yarrow
(Achillea millefolium)
Origin: Europe, Northern Hemisphere
Planetary Influence: Venus,
Mars, Saturn, Pluto, Mercury (esoteric)
Elemental Influence: Water, Air, Fire, Earth (esoteric)
Temperature: Cooling
Moisture: Drying (some say warm to the core)
Taste: Bitter, pungent
Constitutional Action: Slightly aromatic, Astringent hemostatic (stops bleeding), vulnerary (wound healing), anti-inflammatory,
diaphoretic (induces sweat), carminative (reduces gas),
antimicrobial, emmenagogue (promotes menstruation)
tonic for the circulatory and immune system.
** AVOID USE during pregnancy (emmenagogue)**
Avoid with known sensitivity to Asteraceae plants.
Avoid if on Warfarin, blood thinners, blood pressure
medication, stomach acid reducers, and sleep medication.
Spiritual Correspondances: Opens the veil between worlds, especially during liminal times, carries old world wisdom, “key herb” that unlocks subconscious gates and lost teachings. Truth-seeking and boundary redefinition
Strong protective aura cleanser, seals the energy field. Used to strengthen boundaries (emotional, psychic, relational)
Enhances intuition and protects during divination or journey
work. Clears spiritual parasites, psychic residue clearing ancestral wounds, curses, and intergenerational grief. Supports integration after trauma or soul retrieval. Heals the wounded archetype.
Tincture:
Stimulates peripheral circulation and helps regulate blood flow
Useful for fevers—induces sweat and breaks heat.Eases menstrual cramps and regulates cycles. Supports wound healing both internally and externally
Aids digestion and relieves gas or bloating
Helps with urinary tract health and mild infections.
