Magickal Herbs Part 11 - Z√

Here's a list of correspondences to help you pick your herbs.

****Not all magickal herbs are safe to ingest. Never consume any herb you are unfamiliar with. Always check a good quality herbal guide. Do your research before internal use of ANY herb.

****CAUTION! CAUTION!****Some herbs are dangerous to handle if you are PREGNANT. They can harm not only you but your unborn baby. If you are pregnant/nursing use extra caution! Always check a good quality herbal guide.

****CAUTION! CAUTION****Some herbs are poisonous, DO NOT CONSUME and use with caution. Always check a good quality herbal or other trusted herb book before consuming any herbs, barks, flowers or roots.

****Some herbs can cause allergies. Test herbs first before applying to skin or taking internally...test first!

When in doubt, DO NOT USE!
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Xanthan Gum - Incense bonding agent

Yarrow Flower- Uses include healing, handfasting & weddings, and divination. Draws love. Carry as a sachet or amulet to banish negativity, ward off fear, and promote courage, confidence, and psychic opening. Frequently used in marriage charms and love sachets. Said to keep a newly married couple happy for seven years by keeping their love alive and preventing upsetting influences from entering the relationship. Place in a yellow flannel bag with a piece of parchment on which you have written your fears, carry with you to overcome them.
Also Called: Bloodwort, Death Flower, Devil's Nettle, Lady's Mantle, Soldier's Woundwort, Thousandleaf, Millefoil, Carpenter's Weed, Knight's Milfoil, Sanguinary, Arrow Root, Thousand Seal

Yellow Dock- Fertility, healing and money. Sprinkle an infusion of yellow dock around a place of business to attract customers.
Also Called: Curled Dock, Curly Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock, Garden Patience, Rumex

Yerba - Mate Fidelity, love and lust. Worn to attract the opposite sex. Spill an infusion of yerba mate on the ground to break off a relationship.
Also Called: Mate, Mate Leaf, Green Mate

Yerba Santa - Beauty, healing, psychic powers and protection. Carry or use in bath magick to obtain beauty from within and make your body more desirable. Wear around the neck to ward off illness and prevent wounds. Use the leaves in healing or protection incenses. Use in bath water if you feel your sickness has been caused by a hex.
Also Called: Consumptive's Weed, Gum Plant, Gum Bush, Bear's Weed, Bear Weed, Mountain Balm, Tar Weed, Tarweed, Holy Herb, Sacred Herb

Yew - Raising the dead, protection against evil, immortality, and breaking hexes.

Ylang Ylang- Increases sexual attraction and persuasiveness. Also used for peace, love, and faery magick. Promotes calm, peaceful relaxation and relieves anxiety and depression.

Yohimbe Bark- Love, lust, virility and fertility. Curing impotency. Cursing. Used in Pagan rituals of union.

Yucca - Transmutation, protection and purification. A cross of yucca fiber placed on the hearth protects the home from evil. Use an infusion of yucca to cleanse and purify the body before magick. Repeat this cleansing afterwards if performing spells to remove curses, hexes, or illness. Rub a slice of yucca root all over your body once a day for seven days to remove jinxes and hexes.
Also Called: Yucca Stalk, Yucca Root

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Zanthoxykum/Prickly Ash Bark -banishing, breaking hexes, courage, fertility, protection, removing spells, safe travel, vitality.

Zebra Grass divination, grounding, growth, protection, stability. Earth, Moon, Masculine.

Zebra Plant- beauty, creativity, focus, intellect, mental clarity, patience, vitality.

Zedoary- cleansing, divination, healing, prosperity, protection.

Zedoary Root- focus, protection, vitality.

Zinnia- cheer, friendship, joy, love, protection, remembrance, spiritual uplifting.

Zostera/Eelgrass- abundance, emotions, fertility, harmony, prosperity, purification.

Zygophyllum -endurance, protection, strength.