Your Quick Reference Guide to Nearly 150 Herbs
Whether you use plants in your magical or daily life, this catalogue of commonly found herbs offers time-saving, user-friendly plant profiles, so you always have the wisdom you need right at your fingertips. Each entry includes the plant's:
Magical Uses • Planetary Ruler • Element
Magical Virtues • Lore • Culinary and Household Uses
Cosmetic Applications • Home Remedies
An herbalist's best friend, this skimmable sourcebook helps you navigate your practice with confidence. It covers almost every herb you could find in your local supermarket, occult store, or garden. Pick through succinct, versatile entries for nearly 150 plants, such as:
Angelica • Apple • Beech • Bergamot • Black Cohosh • Carnation
Chervil • Chilli • Clary Sage • Comfrey • Echinacea • Eucalyptus
Feverfew • Flax • Ginseng ;• Goldenrod • Hawthorn • Iris
Linden • Lotus • Lovage • Maize • Mullein · Myrrh • Pine
Pomegranate • Rue • Saffron • Sandalwood • Skullcap
Sweet Cicely • Vervain • White Horehound • Yarrow
Anna Franklin also provides any cautions that need to be considered before working safely with the herb. With so many featured plants, this compendium is a valuable everyday resource for healers, cooks, witches, and plant enthusiasts of all skill levels.
Anna Franklin is a third-degree witch and high priestess of the Hearth of Arianrhod who has been a practicing Pagan for more than forty years. She is the author of nearly thirty books, including the Hearth Witch series, and the creator of the Sacred Circle Tarot, Fairy Ring Oracle, and the Pagan Ways Tarot. Her books have been translated into nine languages. Anna has contributed hundreds of articles to Pagan magazines and has appeared on radio and TV. She lives and works in a village in the English Midlands where she grows her own herbs, fruit, and vegetables, and generally lives the Pagan life. Visit her at AnnaFranklin.co.uk.