Plantain Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Earth Chakra Colour: Orange Medicinal Uses: Plantain is used externally for bites, stings, burns and minor cuts and wounds as well skin afflictions. The juice can be applied directly, or the herb may be prepared as a plaster to treat boils, carbuncles … Continue Reading
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Comfrey
Comfrey Gender: Feminine Planet: Saturn Element: Water Chakra Colour: Green Medicinal Uses: Comfrey leaves and roots can be applied as a poultice for all manner of bruises, sprains or other damage to the connective tissues, including broken bones and badly healing ulcers and sores as well as for inflammatory swellings. The leaves only are used … Continue Reading
Black Walnut Leaf
Black Walnut Leaf Gender: Masculine Planet: Sun Element: Fire Chakra Colour: Orange Medicinal Uses: Black Walnut Leaf is alterative, anodyne, astringent, blood tonic, detergent, emetic, laxative, pectoral and vermifuge. Especially useful in the treatment of skin diseases, black walnut is of the highest value in curing scrofulous diseases, … Continue Reading
Senna Leaf
Senna Leaf Gender: Masculine Planet: Mercury Element: Air Chakra Colour: Orange Medicinal Uses: Senna leaf`s action depends on irritating the intestinal tract, which causes the muscles to contract and thus produces a bowel movement. It also binds liquids in the intestines. In Ayurveda it is also used … Continue Reading
Burdock Root
Burdock Root Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Chakra Colour: Red Medicinal Uses: The roots in particular have tremendous detoxifying power, a quality also often described as ‘blood cleansing’. What that means is that it supports the liver to detoxify and eliminate poisons from the body. Thus, it is often given as a supportive remedy … Continue Reading
Sage
Sage Gender: Masculine Planet: Jupiter Element: Air Chakra Colour: Red Medicinal Uses: Sage has a wide range of medicinal properties. Like all odoriferous sages, the leaves are powerful antiseptics, used for abrasions and a spectrum of skin inflammations, staph infections, and sore throats, colds, and lung infections. Drink it hot, as an infusion of the … Continue Reading
Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot Gender: Feminine Planet: Venus Element: Water Chakra Colour: Blue Medicinal Uses: Coltsfoot is best known for its use as a cough remedy. Being both expectorant and antispasmodic in action, it can be used for dry, irritable coughs and even whooping cough. It is often combined with other herbs for maximum effect. Coltsfoot candies are … Continue Reading
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus Gender: Feminine Planet: Moon Element: Water Chakra Colour: Indigo Medicinal Uses: Eucalyptus is well known for its excellent cooling and relaxant properties, which are utilized to treat common coughs, cold and flu type symptoms. Eucalyptus is strongly anti-bacterial and is excellent for clearing congestion from the upper respiratory tract when added to a steam … Continue Reading
Tarragon
Tarragon Gender: Feminine Planet: Mars Element: Fire Chakra Colour: Violet Medicinal Uses: Tarragon is a versatile herb that appears to contain preventative substances for cancer and possibly some viruses. It can be made into a Tea that is particularly effective when used with Lemon Balm for prevention of the flu or herpes. Make the tea … Continue Reading
Name that Tree
Name that Tree Martin Buckley is one of our veterans to Paganfest as he has been pretty much involved since the conceptual stages, in fact he made our beautiful altar! We welcome him back to share his muse! So many trees not enough time to know them all. Do a walk around the property here, … Continue Reading
