Remember these herbs came from a variety of resources. Use at your own risk, some are very toxic.
BALM OF GILEAD
Use:Flowery tops and leaves
Use for:Soothes love pains, de-stressing
To use: Throw the fresh herbs in a bath, as you soak visualize your wish coming true, place in red wine for attracting a new love
BASIL
Use: Flowery tops and leaves
Used for: Money and Riches, Protection, Love
To use:Burn crushed powdered Basil while you announce your desire. You can also sprinkle a little on your person. Can be mixed with other herbs for protection and love
BAY LAUREL
Use:Leaves and Wood
Used for:Divination, Protection, Purification, Justice and sleep/dreams
To useBurn the fresh leaves for divination, hang up at the highest point in the home for protection or burn and let the smoke hit the four corners of a room for purifying and cleansing of negative energies. Place in a dream pillow for safe sound sleep or with other herbs for psychic dreams
BENZOIN
Use:Root and Leaves
Used for:Purification and Intellect, Burn for success in intellectual matters.
To use:Burn crushed and powdered leaves for purifying the home, self and other items of negative energies.
BERGAMOT
Use:Root, Tops and Leaves Used for:Money, Prosperity
To use:Use the oil of this herb in attracting money. Carry a sachet with you to the Bingo parlor for luck in winning!
BETONY
Use:Leaves and Tops
Used for:Protection, Purification and Love
To use: Carry a sachet for protection and/or scatter at the four corners of a room in the house. Burn and let the smoke cover you for purification. Carry with you in an amulet for love advances. Burn for banishing disharmony in a relationship.
BIRCH
Use:Wood
Used for:Protection, Purification
To use:Sacred tree of the Celts. Use the wood for making wands and other magick tools. Also can be mixed with other herbs for a peaceful sleep.
BISTORT ~
Use:The whole Herb
Used for:Clairvoyance, Fertility
To use:Carry as a sachet for fertility and conception. Added as a booster with other herbs for divination.
Borage ~
Use: A low lying plant, fuzzy, with purple flowers.
Used for:Use it in spells concerning Courage
To use:. A tea of Borage can be used to heighten psychic powers. Worn it will protect one when walking outdoors... why I don't know but it's said to. It is attuned to Jupiter, the element of Air, and used in magick for courage, and psychic powers.
Broom ~
Description: Unknown a shrub native to Scotland generally not found in the states.
Used for:used as such to clear away magickal ground
To use: Broom combined with Agrimony and some roses can help to find others of the old ways. It is primarily used for purification. To raise the winds, one needs to through the broom into the air while invoking the spirits of the air, preferably on a mountain top or a high hill. Broom was used to increase psychic powers, but for such a reason it is better to carry it than the ingest it (lest one wish to then go by the directions above no exceptions). An infusion of broom water will clear it of any evil spirits. Traditionally broom is associated with the planet Mars, the element of air, and has been used for purification, protection, to increase wind, and for divination.
BURDOCK ~
Use: Roots, Tops and Leaves
Used for:Protection, Purification
To use: Carry as a protection sachet or burn for purification of the room, Rinse with a root decoction for ridding oneself of a gloomy feeling about yourself or others.
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