C back to herbs Cabbage Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Used for: luck Cactus, Peyote Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Water Used for: protection, chastity Camellia Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Used for: riches Camphor Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Used for: chastity, health, divination Caper Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Used for: potency, lust, luck Caraway Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Used for: Used in love charms to attract a lover. Add to love sachets and charms to attract a lover in the more physical aspect. Also a mild stimulant for digestion. Protection, Passion Cardamon Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Used for: lust, love Carnation Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: Once worn by witches to prevent capture and hanging. Produces added energy in ritual when used in incense. Carrot Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Earth Used for: fertility, lust Cashew Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: money Catnip Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Used for: Its flowers and leaves have often been used to treat colds and insomnia. It lowers fevers, dries up postnasal drip, gets rid of bad headaches and relieves sore aching bones due to colds and flu, when taken in tea form, 2-3 times daily. As an incense it may be used to consecrate magical tools. Cat magic, familiars, joy, friendship, love. Creates a psychic bond between cat and 'owner'. Used in love charms and incenses. Cattail Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Used for: lust Cayenne pepper Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: An excellent flu fighter. Promotes fast recovery, stops internal and external bleeding, said to prevent heart attacks and also helps with depression and headaches. Also makes a fine liniment- quickly bringing blood to the surface of the skin, use either cider vinegar or alcohol as base for the liniment. Dilute with rose water or distilled water, heating the vinegar or spirits before using them. Cedar Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: healing, purification, money, protection Celandine Gender: sun Planet: Fire Element: Helps the wearer escape unfair imprisonment and Used for: entrapment. If worn, cures depression. Celery Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Fire Used for: Mental and psychic powers, lust. Chamomile Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Water Used for: Use in prosperity charms and rituals. Induces sleep. The tea brings peace and tranquility for those times when you need to do a ritual but are seething with anger or hurt. If you wash your face and hair with camomile, it will attract a lover. Is an excellent herb both internally and externally for calming. Great for digestion, fevers, burns, anti-inflammatory for wounds, and sedative for nervous disorders. And relieves stomachaches and diarrhea in infants and small children (always using in diluted form). In tea form, made of 2 teaspoons of the herb steeped for 5 minutes in a cup of boiling water is a gentle sleep inducer. Chamomile also makes an excellent insect repellent, simply splash some tea on face arms and feet. It is also a good hair rinse for blondes. Plant camomile in your garden to be the guardian of the land, and you will have certain success. Good as a meditation incense, for centering, peace, sprinkle in your home for protection, healing, money. Cherry Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Water Used for: love, divination Chestnut Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Used for: love Chicory Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Used for: removing obstacles, invisibility, favours, frigidity Chili Pepper Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Used for: fidelity, hex-breaking, love Chrysanthemum Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: protection Cinnamon Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Fire Used for: Use in incenses for healing, clairvoyance, high spiritual vibrations. Reputed to be a male aphrodisiac. Use in prosperity charms.It is recommended as a skin astringent and digestive aid in tea form. Ground, or taken with milk, good balance after a heavy meal or dessert. Also used for diarrhea, dysentery or general indigestion. It is an excellent aromatic and makes a good anointing oil for any magical working. Spiritual quests, augmenting power, love, success, psychic work, healing, cleansing. Cinquefoil Planet: Jupiter Element: Earth Used for: Hang on house entrances as protection. Use in spells and charms for prosperity, purification and protection. sleep, prophetic dreams. Citron Gender: male Planet: Sun Element: Air Used for: psychic powers, healing Clove Gender: male Planet: Jupiter Element: Fire Used for: Worn to drive away negativity and stop gossip. Cloves strung on a red thread can be worn as a protective charm. It has a mild antiseptic quality for toothaches (chew), or in tea form it is an expectorant for colds, also good foe nausea or vomiting. It is an antibacterial, antiseptic, and analgesic, which means it helps prevent disease and infection. Dispel negativity, protection, money, incense against gossip, vision, cleansing. exorcism, love, money Clover Gender: male Planet: Mercury Element: Air Used for: Associated with the Triple Goddess. Used in rituals for beauty and youth. Four-leaved clovers are carried to see fairies, heal illness, avoid military service, avoid madness, and as a general good-luck charm. To dream of clover is considered very fortunate, especially for young people.protection, money, love, sucess, exorcism. Coconut Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Used for: purification, protection, chastity. Comfrey Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Water Used for: A herb of Hecate, used in rituals to honour the Goddess in her Crone aspect.Has been known to slow bleeding, aid colds, ease burns. As a poultice or a tea, comfrey may be applied to bites, sores, rashes, broken bones, and cuts. Also a good ingredient for lotions to soothe sunburn. Safe travel spells, money, healing. safety during travel, money. Coriander Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Used for: Used in love spells and charms. An old coriander spell is to take seven grains of coriander and grind them in a mortar, saying 'Warm seed, warm heart, let them never be apart' three times. Drop the seeds into wine and share with your lover.If added to wine, it makes a serviceable love potion for 2 consenting parties. Also used in love sachets and charms.Protection of home, peace , good in ritual drinks, incenses for longevity and love, security. health, healing Corn Gender: female Planet: Venus Element: Earth Used for: protection, luck, divination Cotton Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Earth Used for: luck, healing, protection, rain, fishing magic. Cowslip Gender: female Planet: venus Used for: Cattle were once hung with cowslips to encourage healthy milk production. Cowslip flowers were believed to bring luck in love to the wearer. In Suffolk, milkmaids would wash their faces in milk in which cowslip petals had been infused on Beltane, believing that it would make their faces glow and attract their beloved during the Beltane celebraations. Were traditionally woven into funeral wreaths to be laid on the deceased one's grave at the full moon, for thirteen moons after his or her death. Posies of cowslips, placed under the pillow, were said to allow contact with the dead in dreams.healing, youth, treasure finding. Cucumber Gender: female Planet: Moon Element: Water Used for: chastity, healing, fertility Cumin Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Used for: protection, fidelity, exorcism Curry Gender: male Planet: Mars Element: Fire Used for: protection Cypress Gender: female Planet: Saturn Element: Earth Used for: Connected with death in all its aspects. Cypress smoke can be used to consecrate ritual objects. longevity, healing, comfort, protection back to herbs