Herb Books

“Every word of Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness is carefully thought out and deeply impactful, as Blackthorn offers in-depth information about all of the ways plants and other allies can help us care for ourselves, especially if we are among the traumatized and cast aside. There’s no spiritual bypassing here—just an ever-sweet and profoundly informative book that will throw a considerable, necessary punch into your wellness routine.” —Cassandra Snow, author of Lessons from the Empress: A Tarot Workbook for Self-Care and Creative Growth
 
“The best life starts within, looking outward,” writes Amy Blackthorn in this simultaneously practical and personal guide to wellness and healing. Blackthorn, a master herbalist, aromatherapist, and prolific author, explores methods of wellness management using both mystical and mundane tools and techniques.
 
Amy’s book features essential oils, plants, meditation, tarot, astrology, and personal sigils tailored to your own specific needs and circumstances. She also describes her own journey to well-being and shares the lessons she’s learned, including how to develop healthy mind-body habits and to stop relying on fear and shame-based rituals for self-care that ultimately produce results that are the very opposite of what is desired. Instead, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness supplies holistic solutions that enable you to lead your best life.

According to Blackthorn, self-care isn’t “me, first”; it’s “me, too.” In clear, accessible, friendly language, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness teaches the skills to put these important lessons into practice.

• Find tools for managing health, chronic illness, and self-care
• Create a lunar self-care calendar
• Embrace the emotional well-being of aromatherapy
• Work with plant spirit allies
• Empower yourself with spells and rituals

This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Explore the ancient practice of magical herbalism―an illustrated guide to healing herbs and spells

Herbal magic is a powerful method of inviting protection, love, health, and wealth into your life. Perfect for fresh and seasoned herbalists alike, Herb Magic is your easy-to-digest guide to magical herbalism, introducing you to the spiritual side of herbs and how to use them in spells and rituals for spiritual power and wellness.

Access the witchcraft within you with:

• The principles of herbalism―Dive into a reader-friendly overview of this old-world spiritual belief system, including advice on the best times to practice, building an altar, and setting intentions.
• The healing power of plants―Explore beautiful, illustrated profiles on 40 different herbs that show you the magical properties of each and how to unlock them.
• 75 Spells and rituals―Embrace the magic every day with spells and rituals for protection, love, healing, wealth, and even divination―plus a handy herb glossary.

Empower yourself and enrich your life with the magic of herbalism.

A never-before-translated occult classic that brings the science of herbal medicine back to its Hermetic roots

• Includes a large collection of recipes for spagyric medicines and quintessences, with detailed step-by-step instructions, adapted from celebrated spagyrists such as Paracelsus, Pseudo-Lull, Philipp Ulstad, and Nicaise Le Fèvre

• Provides botanical and medicinal classifications of over 600 plant species along with their astral natures, elemental qualities, and planetary and zodiacal signatures

• Explores advanced methods and techniques and shares the author’s secret formula for a universal circulatum

First published in French in 1911, this practical guide to the art of spagyrics begins by outlining the ancient yet often forgotten Hermetic foundations of herbalism. Author Jean Mavéric provides botanical and medicinal classifications of over 600 plant species along with an in-depth study of their astral natures, elemental qualities, and planetary and zodiacal signatures as well as practical advice on the appropriate times to harvest plants and administer herbal remedies and quintessences.

Reviewing the general principles and procedures of premodern chemistry, Mavéric then explores the secret doctrines and operations of the spagyric art. He offers a large collection of recipes for spagyric herbal preparations adapted from celebrated spagyrists such as Paracelsus, Pseudo-Lull, Philipp Ulstad, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oswald Croll, and Nicaise Le Fèvre, providing detailed step-by-step instructions for a veritable pharmacopeia of spagyric extracts, tinctures, elixirs, liquors, oils, unguents, salts, aquae vitae, and quintessences. Mavéric also shares his intricate theory of astral medicine and advocates a seasonal “Hermetic diet” designed to keep the humors of the body in equilibrium and prevent the onset of illness. In the final section of the book, Mavéric focuses on the more advanced methods and techniques of Paracelsus, Helmont, and George Starkey, unraveling the mysteries of manufacturing alkalis, alkahests, and menstrua and divulging his own secret formula for a universal circulatum.

Available now for the first time in English, this occult classic unveils the art of extracting spagyric essences to a modern audience while also bringing the science of herbal medicine back to its Hermetic roots.

Plants of Power is a modern guide to the foundational plants you can grow in your own garden apothecary. Reconnect with the natural world, discover age-old wisdom and tap into the power of plants to help us, whether for mood, healing, love or other aspects of our lives.Discover 66 amazing easy-to-grow plants that can change a garden - and a life!Detailed information and growing advice on 66 Plants of Power.Discover the history, mythos, magic and medicinal benefits of these plants.Fantastic recipes and plant projects to try.Planting guide by the seasons gives you the best chance of growing success.Learn all about wild foraging.A treasure trove of tips on successful propagation and cultivation.Join Stacey Demarco and Miranda Mueller for a stroll through the seasonal wheel of growing, foraging and harvesting these most powerful plant allies, whether for medicine, food or a little touch of magic.Getting your hands in the dirt has never been so much fun!

Traditional Southern root magic and conjure from someone who learned the old ways growing up in rural Appalachia. Folk magic conjurer and root worker Orion Foxwood invites you to take a walk through his native Appalachia, through moonlit orchards and rural farms, to the dark of the crossroads. From the oral tradition of his ancestors to the voices of the spirits themselves, Foxwood brings readers the secrets of Southern magic: 

-Working by the signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility, and orcharding)
-Faith healing
-Settling the light (candle magic)
-Doctoring the root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts for magic or for clearing, cleansing, and blessing a person)
-Praying or dreaming true (blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)
-Blessing or cursing

Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work shows how to create magic in today's world with the old ways and traditions of Appalachia.

The book is organized for easy access and use, covering each flower in a standardized format, presented in alphabetical order. This book is useful for both the individual seeking to apply flower essences in his or her life, as well as for the professional wellness practitioner to expand the range of flower remedies in their repertoire.

Each flower is listed with its Latin name for identification, its colour, and which chakra the essence is most focused upon for energetic healing and wellness. With each flower entry is also listed a group of possible gemstones to include in making the essence, to enhance and increase its subtle healing action.

Every Witch needs a little corner of the world to tend. Deepen your connection to the earth and watch your magickal skills blossom. Ellen Dugan presents a variety of ways to honor and work with the plant kingdom in this charming hands-on guide to green magick and spirituality. Designed to enhance any tradition or style of the Craft, this handy herbal reference provides the physical description, folklore, magickal qualities, and spellwork correspondences for a wealth of flowers, trees, and herbs, and features forty-seven botanical drawings.

Conjuring a Garden with Heart • Green Witchery in the City
Wildflowers and Witchery • Magick of the Hedgerows
The Magick and Folklore of Trees • Gothic Herbs and Forbidden Plants
Herbs and Plants of the Sabbats • Herbs of the Stars • Magickal Herbalism

The conversational tone of Garden Witch’s Herbal is a refreshing change from other garden-variety horticulture books and makes Dugan’s herbal entertaining as well as informative. —New Age Retailer