B back to herbs Balm of Gilead Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Uses: The buds can be carried to mend a broken heart. Can be added to love and protection charms.Love, manifestations, protection, healing Bamboo Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Uses: Protection, luck, hex-breaking, wishes. Banana Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Uses: Fertility, potency, prosperity Barley Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Earth Uses: Love, healing, protection Basil Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Uses: Used in wealth and prosperity rituals. Carrying basil in your pockets is supposed to attract money into them. A wife can supposedly stop her husband being unfaithful by dusting her upper body with powdered basil. It is good as a tea for calming the nerves, settling the stomach, and easing cramps and good for the bladder. In tincture form, also makes a good hair rinse for brunettes. An ingredient of the Purification bath sachet. Add to love sachets and incenses. Protection, love, wealth (if carried in your wallet), healing relationships, courage, fertility, exorcism. Bay Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Uses: DO NOT TAKE INTERNALLY--use as a poultice on chest for bronchitis and chest colds. The leaves can be burned or chewed to induce visions. Worn as an amulet to ward off negativity and evil. Leaves under the pillow are supposed to induce prophetic dreams. Can be used in protection and purification rituals. Growing near a house, it was supposed to protect those within from infection and storms. Z. Budapest gives a spell using bay laurel for use in games of chance: take three laurel leaves and three pieces of parchment. Write on each paper the names of the Triple Goddess: Diana, Isis, Hecate. Keep the leaves and parchment in a red flannel bag in your pocket, and before starting your game of chance say: 'Isis of the Thousand Breasts, make my chance the best one yet'. wisdom, protection, psychic powers Bean Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Uses: Protection, exorcism, Wart charming, reconciliations, potency, love. Beech Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Air Uses: wishes Beet Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Uses: love Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Water Uses: astral projection Benzoin Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Uses: Used in purification incenses. A few drops of tincture of benzoin helps to preserve oils and preparations.prosperity Betony Gender: Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Uses: Add to incenses of protection and purification. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with betony to prevent nightmares. Birch Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Uses: protection, exorcism, purification Blackberry Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Uses: Healing, money, protection Bodhi Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Uses: Fertility, protection, wisdom, meditation Bracken Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Uses: healing, rune magic, prophetic dreams Brazil Nut Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Uses: love Bromeliad Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Uses: protection, money Buckwheat Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Earth Uses: money, protection back to herbs