Magical Herbs and Their Uses: A Complete Guide for Love, Healing, and Protection

Herbs can be used for a better life, and though there are some herbs that are poisonous and dangerous to use, there are some that are great for your mind, body, and soul. Always find a book of herbs that is trusted before you use any roots, herbs, barks, or flowers.

Here is a list of herbs and their benefits for you!

• Acorn: A herb that offers good luck, protects you, and gives personal power and wisdom. If you use dried acorns, you can use them to stay youthful. Acorns are associated with water and the sabbat of Litha.
• Agrimony: Known for its ability to break hexes and protect. It can also help you sleep better and reverse harmful energy. This herb is connected to the element of air.
• Alder: Helps you face what you’ve been avoiding. It’s used in divination and artistic or weather-related magic. Its energy ties to the fire element.
• Alfalfa: Great for spells involving money, prosperity, and a happy home. It’s also been used to ward off hunger. This herb is grounded in earth energy.
• Allspice: Attracts money and success in business. It also adds warmth and compassion to magic, bringing healing and luck. Connected to the element of fire.
• Angelica: Sometimes called Archangel, this is a strong protection herb. It helps with healing, harmony, courage, and spirit cleansing. It’s also good for enhancing vision and works with air energy.
• Apple: Used in garden and love magic, as well as for healing and gaining wisdom. It’s also tied to vanity, beauty, and marriage. Apple is linked to Mabon and Samhain, and the element of water.
• Ash: Known for protection and luck, especially in sea-related spells. Ash Yule logs are burned for prosperity. Yggdrasil, the Norse world tree, was also an ash tree. It’s tied to the water element.
• Basil: Often called the “witches’ herb.” It’s used in spells for love, wealth, protection, and spiritual cleansing. Also helps with astral projection and is associated with fire and Imbolc.
• Bay Leaf: Helps with protection, success, and gaining wisdom. It’s also used for purification, psychic strength, and healing. Bay leaves are connected to the fire element.
• Beech: Brings happiness and inspiration, and is useful in divination. Symbolizes the Green Man. Element Air.
• Belladonna: Also known as Deadly Nightshade. Toxic. Used for letting go of past loves, enhancing beauty, offering protection, and energizing rituals. Element Water.
• Benzoin: Helps with purification, prosperity, emotional release, and calming stress. Useful for focus, astral projection, and lifting depression. Element Air.
• Bergamot: Attracts money, prosperity, and restful sleep. Offers protection from illness and negativity. Boosts magical strength. Element Fire.
• Birch: A strong purifier and protector. Wards off infertility, lightning, and the evil eye. Associated with Yule. Element Water.
• Black Pepper: Great for banishing and protection. Used to clear away negativity and boost courage. Element Fire.
• Blackthorn: Helpful in spiritual cleansing, exorcism, and shielding from harmful energy. Connected with Samhain. Element Earth.
• Bladderwrack: Supports sea and wind spells, brings protection, boosts psychic gifts, and attracts customers and money. Element Water.
• Blessed Thistle: Also called Holy Thistle. Known for protective energy, purification, vitality, and breaking hexes. Carry for strength. Element Earth.
• Blueberry: Protects children, strengthens the aura, and keeps negative energy away. Linked to the Great Spirit. Element Water.
• Borage Leaf: Encourages courage, emotional strength, and peace. Boosts psychic awareness and deflects negative energy. Element Air.
• Borage Flower: Helps develop self-confidence, emotional calm, inner peace, and self-love. Element Air.
• Burdock: Also called Beggar’s Buttons. Cleanses energy, promotes protection and healing, and supports persistence. Element Water.
• Calendula: Also known as Marigold. Attracts success and legal fairness. Supports psychic visions, prophetic dreams, and clears negativity. Element Fire.
• Cardamom: A sensual herb used in love, lust, and marriage magic. Enhances charm and attraction. Element Water.
• Carnation: Offers protection, builds strength, promotes balance, and enhances magical ability. Element Fire.
• Catnip: Also known as Nepeta. A favorite in animal magic. Draws love, happiness, beauty, and good luck. Associated with Bast. Element Water.
• Cedarwood: Boosts luck and inner power. A healing wood that supports money magic and spiritual strength. Linked to Mabon. Element Earth.
• Cedar Berries: Also known as Juniper Berries. Strong for cleansing, healing, and protecting against negative forces. Element Fire.
• Celandine: Brightens the spirit, heals ailments, improves circulation, and lifts depression. Solar magic herb. Element Fire.
• Chamomile: Used for love, sleep, peace, and protection. Calms stress and enhances meditation and money attraction. Solar magic. Element Water.
• Chervil: Supports healing and is tied to welcoming new beginnings. Also linked to old beliefs and superstition. Element Water.
• Chickweed: Also called Witches’ Grass. Used in moon magic and spells for love, fertility, and animal connection. Element Water.
• Chili: Stokes’s passion and love. Also used for loyalty and breaking curses. Element Fire.
• Cinnamon: Also called Sweet Wood. A fiery herb used in spiritual growth, prosperity, and powerful energy. Helps with meditation and astral travel. Element Fire.
• Clover, Red: Also called Trefoil. Used in love, marriage, and fidelity spells. Also supports financial luck and success. Element Air.
• Clove: Offers spiritual protection, clears negative energy, and is helpful in money magic and divination. Supports dental magic. Element Fire.
• Coltsfoot: Brings prosperity, calm, and emotional peace. Helps in love and financial stability. Associated with Brighid. Element Water.
• Comfrey: Also called Slippery Root. A grounding herb used for safe travel, endurance, and healing. Element Water.
• Coriander: Promotes love, sexual attraction, and well-being. Used to ease migraines and bring household peace. Element Fire.
• Cornflower: Often used to make magical ink. Honors the Divine Mother and is connected with herbal wisdom and rainbow children. Element Earth.
• Cumin: Strengthens loyalty and banishes bad energy. Useful in love spells and magical cooking. Element Earth.
• Cypress: A mourning herb that supports emotional healing, confidence, protection, and peaceful dreams. Element Earth.
• Damiana: Known for stirring passion, it’s used in sex magic and love-drawing rituals. Thought to be an aphrodisiac and helpful in spirit quests and astral projection. Element Fire.
• Dandelion Leaf: Helps summon spirits, make wishes, purify energy, and defeat negativity. It’s also used for healing. Element Air.
• Dandelion Root: Supports divination, wish-making, and spirit contact. It enhances dreams and works well in astral work. Element Air.
• Dock Root (Yellow): Releases old emotional baggage, supports healing, fertility, and wealth. Breaks through blockages and bindings. Associated with solar magic. Element Air.
• Echinacea: Boosts psychic ability and clairvoyance. Strengthens spells for wealth, fertility, and protection. Element Earth.
• Elder Tree: Used for sleep spells, breaking enchantments, and warding off negative energy.
  Elderflower & Berry: Offer peace, protection, healing, and aid in exorcisms. Element Water.
• Elm: Stimulates the mind and softens the heart. Great for love magic and lightning protection. Element Water.
• Evening Primrose: Ideal for moon-based spells and love charms. Said to attract faeries. Element Water.
• Eyebright: Sharpens mental clarity, psychic skills, and inner vision. Element Air.
• Fennel Seed: Great for meditation, healing, and protection. Offers strength to new mothers and clears emotional clutter. Element Air.
• Feverfew: Offers protection while traveling and during spiritual work. Also supports health and builds personal strength. Element Water.
• Flax Seed: Also called Linseed. Used in money and beauty magic, as well as for healing and protection. Element Fire.
• Fleawort: Known for its healing, cleansing, and empowering properties. Revered as a goddess herb. Element Earth.
• Frankincense Resin: Used in solar rites and sabbats like Beltane, Lammas, and Yule. Encourages self-discipline, emotional balance, and spiritual clarity. Element Earth.
• Fumitory: Linked with the underworld and Samhain. Used in spells for wealth, sacred rites, and spiritual shielding. Element Earth.
• Galangal Root: Also called Lo John the Conqueror. Used in legal work, money spells, luck rituals, and psychic development. Element Fire.
• Garlic: Used for protection, speed, endurance, exorcism, and purification. Also strengthens inner will. Element Fire.
• Gentian: Increases the power of spells. Attracts good luck and supports love and romance. Element Fire.
• Ginger: A powerful enhancer for success, love, wealth, and strength in magical work. Element Fire.
• Ginseng: Used to draw in love, beauty, healing energy, and passion. Element Fire.
• Hawthorn Wood: Associated with Beltane and the fae. Used for chastity, fertility, and rebirth. Supports success in work and love rituals. Element Water.
  Hawthorn Berries: Help with chastity, protection, happiness, and hope. Element Fire.
• Hearts Ease: Also called Violet. Used to mend heartbreak, support peace, rebirth, and grant wishes. Eases nerves and fosters serenity. Element Water.
• Hemlock: Known for freezing or “paralyzing” situations. A traditional funeral herb. Extremely toxic. Element Water.
• Henbane: Used to bless ceremonial items and attract love. Highly toxic and used with great care. Element Water.
• Hibiscus: Draws love and passion. Great for divination and lunar rituals. Element Water.
• High John (The Conqueror): A versatile herb for strength, confidence, prosperity, protection, and overcoming obstacles. Element Fire.
• Holly Hock: Connected to fairy magic, growth, abundance, and crossing between worlds. Related to Lammas. Element Earth.
• Horehound: Protects against evil, sharpens ritual focus, boosts creativity, and balances energy. Element Earth.
• Horsetail: Builds inner strength, clears emotions, and shields against negativity. Element Earth.
• Hyssop: Used to cleanse, purify, banish negativity, and heal. Often in fire-based rituals. Element Fire.
• Irish Moss: Draws in good fortune. Excellent for gamblers and entrepreneurs. Offers protection and prosperity. Element Water.
• Ivy: Great for love, protection, fertility, and blessing handfastings. Element Fire.
• Jasmine: Helps manifest love and money. Encourages prophetic dreams and attraction magic. Element Water.
• Juniper: See Cedarberries for similar magical uses.
• Lady’s Mantle: Enhances love and fertility spells. Considered an aphrodisiac and used for magical transformation. Connects with fairy energy. Element Water.
• Laurel: See Bay Leaf.
• Lavender: Brings peace, healing, love, and restful sleep. Known to promote chastity, happiness, and long life. Element Air.
• Lemon Balm: Also called Melissa. Supports love, healing, and success. Promotes emotional balance and psychic development. Element Water.
• Lemon Grass: Clears the mind and spirit. Used in lust spells and dragon magic. Element Air.
• Licorice Root: Attracts love, passion, and loyalty. Enhances romantic energy. Element Water.
• Lilac: Encourages wisdom, good fortune, and spiritual guidance. Element Water.
• Linden Flower: Symbol of justice, protection, wisdom, and love. Element Air.
• Lime Tree Leaf: Brings healing, serenity, and emotional strength. Element Air.
• Low John: See Galangal Root.
• Lungwort: An air magic herb used for spiritual flight and offerings to air deities. Ensures safety while traveling. Element Air.
• Mandrake: Powerful protector and amplifier of magic. Attracts wealth, happiness, and success. Element Earth.
• Marigold: See Calendula.
• Marjoram: Clears grief, negative energy, and sadness. Used in purification rituals. Element Air.
• Marshmallow Flower: A gentle herb for cleansing and love. Used in fertility magic and handfastings. Element Water.
• Marshmallow Root: Encourages healing, strengthens psychic ability, and soothes the throat. Often used in handfastings. Element Water.
• Meadowsweet: Brings peace and happiness. Encourages job opportunities and divination work. Element Air.
• Mint: Increases energy, communication, and vitality. Protects and draws in business. Element Air.
• Mistletoe: Also called Witches’ Broom. Used for peace, creativity, fertility, and warding off curses. Element Air.
• Mountain Ash Berry: Also known as Rowan. Offers spiritual clarity, fairy connection, and mental focus. Element Fire.
• Motherwort: A grounding herb for love, luck, and fertility. Offers protection and comfort. Element Fire.
• Mugwort: Boosts magical power, supports protection and healing, and assists with astral travel and psychic abilities. Element Earth.
• Mullein: Used at spiritual crossroads. Protects from nightmares and curses, and brings love and safety. Element Fire.
• Mustard Seed: Encourages courage, strength, and faith. A symbol of good luck and protection. Element Fire.
• Myrrh: Used in spiritual rituals for healing, youthfulness, and peace. Strengthens protection. Element Earth.
• Nasturtium: Helps you let go of fear and be bold. Aids creativity and independence. Element Air.
• Nettle: Protects, breaks curses, and encourages healing and passion. Clears out negativity. Element Fire.
• Nutmeg: Attracts luck, wealth, and favorable outcomes. Used in fortune magic and divination. Element Fire.
• Oak: A sacred tree linked to Litha. Brings strength, stability, luck, and success. Attracts money and healing. Element Water.
• Orange Peel & Flower: Brings love, joy, and prosperity. Enhances divination and spiritual insight. Element Fire.
• Oregano: Supports astral travel, vitality, and fairness. Offers protection and joy. Used at handfastings. Element Air.
• Parsley: Connects you with spirits and supports spiritual growth. Aids strength, vitality, and passion. Element Air.
• Passion Flower: Invites love, calm, and joy. Used to bless homes and nurture relationships. Element Water.
• Patchouli: Draws money, enhances fertility, and brings peace. Used for grounding and spirit connection. Element Earth.
• Pennyroyal: Offers peace and endurance. Wards off sickness and brings harmony. Element Earth.
• Peppermint: Aids in healing, especially headaches. Supports love, psychic work, and restful sleep. Element Air.
• Pilewort: See Celandine.
• Pine/Needles: Used in blessings and cleansing. Brings prosperity, protection, and success. Element Fire.
• Plantain: A healing herb that boosts fertility and energy. Used to gain strength over supernatural forces. Element Earth.
• Poppy Seeds: Attracts love, pleasure, and good luck. Helps with sleep and astral work. Element Water.
• Pumpkin Seed: Used in moon magic and for enhancing intuition. Brings healing and supports divination. Element Fire.
• Raspberry Leaf: Used for love, healing, and childbirth support. Encourages restful sleep and dream work. Element Water.
• Red Clover: A love and luck herb that also brings prosperity and fidelity. Used in spiritual cleansing. Element Air.
• Rose: Opens the heart to love and enhances psychic insight. Used for healing and deepening friendships. Element Water.
• Rose Hips: Brings good luck and helps with love spells. Attracts kind and helpful energies. Element Water.
• Rosemary: Strengthens memory, offers protection, and aids healing. Used in purification and love magic. Element Fire.
• Rowan: See Mountain Ash.
• Rue: Protects against negativity and illness. Enhances mental clarity and is used in healing and exorcism work. Element Fire.
• Sage: Clears away grief and old energy. Brings healing, wisdom, and spiritual strength. Element Air.
• Sandalwood: Raises spiritual energy. Aids in protection, success, and divination. Used in exorcism and healing. Element Water.
• Skullcap: Brings peace, love, and fidelity. Enhances emotional balance. Element Water.
• Sea Salt: Cleanses tools and crystals. Grounds, protects, and supports purification rituals. Element Earth & Water.
• Sheep’s Purse: A lucky herb for money, healing, and protection. Element Earth.
• Sheep Sorrel: Protects the heart, cleanses energy, and attracts good fortune. Used in fairy work. Element Earth.
• St. John’s Wort: Protects against dark energy and illness. Brings joy, prophetic dreams, and spiritual strength. Used in solar spells. Element Fire.
• Star Anise: Used for luck, psychic awareness, and spiritual cleansing. Ideal for purification and breaking curses. Element Fire.
• Strawberry Leaf: Attracts love, fertility, and good luck. Encourages positive outcomes and joyful relationships. Element Water.
• Sunflower: Brightens energy, supports fertility, and grants wishes. A symbol of protection and insight. Element Fire.
• Sweet Cicely: Used in rituals for the dead. A sacred herb that enhances divination and spirit contact. Element Earth.
• Sweetwood: See Cinnamon.
• Tansy: See Agrimony.
• Tarragon: Brings confidence and healing, especially after emotional trauma. Used in dragon magic. Element Fire.
• Tea Leaves: Inspire courage and passion. Burn for prosperity or brew for love and energy. Element Air.
• Thistle: See Blessed Thistle.
• Thyme: Attracts love and loyalty. Aids in psychic work and restful sleep. Element Air.
• Valerian: Calming and sedative. Encourages peaceful sleep and supports love magic. Element Water.
• Vervain: Boosts other herbs and brings peace, youth, and love. Burns to attract wealth and enhance chastity. Element Water.
• Verbena: A healing herb for beauty, clarity, and peace. Helps lift depression and enhance spiritual growth. Ideal for study. Element Earth.
• Violet: See Heart’s Ease.
• White Willow Bark: Removes negative energy, supports healing, and is used in lunar magic. Contains natural pain relief. Element Water.
• Willow: A moon-aligned tree that aids in love, healing, and emotional release. Element Water.
• Witches’ Grass: A powerful herb for love, lust, and reversing curses. Encourages happiness. Element Earth.
• Wood Betony: Used for banishing nightmares and attracting love. A purifying and protective herb. Element Fire.
• Woodruff: Invites protection, money, and success. Element Air.
• Wormwood: Clears anger and enhances spiritual vision. Used for summoning, divination, and psychic strength. Element Earth.
• Yarrow: Brings courage, healing, and love. Increases psychic gifts and is a wedding herb. Element Air.

Final Thoughts

If you want to use herbs for love, healing, or whatever you need, read the list above and find out which ones are safe to use.