You already have an herbal pharmacy just waiting to be found it's right in your garden. This book teaches you how to use a wide variety of common plants to improve your health, treat common ailments, make personal care products, and develop your magical practice. Anna Franklin provides comprehensive profiles for nearly thirty plants, such as begonia, sunflower, dandelion, and clover. She shares each one's culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses as well as magical virtues, correspondences, and recipes. This practical guide also offers deep insights on seasonal garden rituals, fairy flowers and trees, weather lore, garden spirits and familiars, harvesting and storing, and more. From tinctures and syrups to creams, bath salts, and jellies, this book has a wealth of options to improve your health and spirituality.
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You already have an herbal pharmacy just waiting to be found it's right in your garden. This book teaches you how to use a wide variety of common plants to improve your health, treat common ailments, make personal care products, and develop your magical practice.
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Contents Introduction 1 A Note on Botanical Names…2 Part 1: The Witch's Garden 5 Maintaining Balance…7 How Your Garden Benefits the Environment…8 Recipes for Garden Care…13 Companion Planting…15 Moon Gardening…18 The Spirits of Your Garden…19 Garden Plants…27 Fairy Flowers and Trees…30 The Language of Flowers…35 Garden Familiars…44 Seasonal Garden Rituals…55 Garden Spells…60 Weather Lore…64 The Garden Pharmacy…65 Your Magical Workshop…75 Harvesting and Storing…81 Part 2: The A–Z Herbal 83 Aloe Vera…85 Begonia…91 Borage…95 Calendula…103 Carnation…113 Chamomile…119 Clover…129 Daisy…137 Dandelion…145 Fuchsia…155 Scented Geranium…161 Heather…169 Honeysuckle …179 Horsetail…187 Houseleek…193 English Ivy…197 Jasmine…207 Lavender…213 Lilac…223 Mallow…231 Nasturtium…239 Nettle…247 Passionflower…255 Peony…261 Red Poppy …267 Primrose…275 Rose…281 Sunflower…297 Violet…303 Appendix: Other Garden Plants for Magic 315 Bibliography 321
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780738772301
Publisert
2023-04-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Llewellyn Publications,u.s.
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
191 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

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Biographical note

ANNA FRANKLIN (The English Midlands, UK) is a third-degree witch and high priestess of the Hearth of Arianrhod who has been practicing Paganism for more than forty years. She is the author of twenty eight books, including the Hearth Witch series. Her books have been translated into nine languages. Anna has also contributed hundreds of articles to Pagan magazines and has appeared on radio and TV. www.annafranklin.co.uk