
GARDENIA
G/P/E: Feminine, Moon, Water.
Magical uses:Used to attract true love.
GARLIC
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical uses:A very protective herb, healing, good weather, courage, exorcism.
Uses: A culinary herb.
GINGER
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical attributes: Power, success, love, money matters.
Uses: Acts as an aid to ingestion or colds (tea form). Also in tea form, good for cramps, to stimulate the digestive organs, migraines and nausea, external stiffness. Can be added to the bath as a way to ease pain and increase circulation, but only use a few sprinkles, not to much, like cayenne, ginger quickly brings the blood to the surface of the skin. For pain you can also soak cloths in ginger tea and apply them directly to the painful areas. Add in cooking to detoxify meat, especially chicken. A good healing tea is made from a pinch of peppermint, a pinch of ginger and either a pinch of clove powder or 2 bruised cloves, add 1 cup of hot water and steep.
GINSENG
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Fire.
Magical attributes: Love, wishes, beauty, desire.
Uses: Stimulant, tonic, and agent for prolonged life. Also a mild pain killer, and improves blood circulation. Reported to successfully treat asthma, bronchitis, cancer, flatulence, diabetes, weakness, fever, coughs and heartburn, and a mild stimulant. In tea form it helps to relieve stress and moderate heart disease.
GARLIC
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical attributes: Protection, healing, good weather, courage, exorcism.
Uses: Lowers tension, ease colds, and improve circulation. Garlic vinegar can be used to disinfect wounds and soothe rheumatic pain and any common pain (made from one liter of vinegar and ten cloves of crushed garlic steeped for at least 10 days). Shrinks warts, relieves pain from teeth and earaches. Good for high and low blood pressure and removing parasites and infections. To ease the pain of aching joints, a toothache or an earache, place a crushed raw bulb of garlic on a piece of gauze and place over the area of pain. For joints, try using garlic paste.
HAWTHORN
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical uses:Used in protective sachets and amulets against evil influences. Promotes happiness in marriage or a relationship. It is bad luck to cut down a hawthorn. Burn the berries as an incense when you need energy and and change in life.
HAZEL
G/P/E: Masculine, Sun, Air.
Magical uses:Hazel wood is excellent for an all-purpose wand. Forked branches can be used for divining. Sprigs of Hazel can be carried for good luck, they are especially powerful if bound together by red and gold thread.
HENBANE
G/P/E: Feminine, Jupiter, Water.
Magical uses:Carried to attract the love of a woman. Was once used as an ingredient in a Witches flying ointment. Henbane is extremely poisonous and the upmost caution is urged.
HIGH JOHN the CONQUEROR ROOT
G/P/E: Masculine, Saturn, Earth.
Magical uses:Use this as an additive to candle anointing oils, and charms to increase their strength.
HOLLY
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Fire.
Magical uses:Planted around the home for protection against evil. The leaves and berries can be carried by a man to heighten his masculinity, virility and to attract a lover.
HONEYSUCKLE
G/P/E: Feminine, Jupiter, Earth.
Magical uses:Used widely in prosperity spells and love charms.
HOPS
G/P/E: Masculine, Mars, Water.
Magical uses:Used in healing incenses and charms. A mild sedative. Hops placed in a pillow will help with sleep.
HYSSOP
G/P/E: Masculine, Jupiter, Fire.
Magical uses:Use in purification baths, protective and banishing spells. Hyssop was widely used during the Middle Ages for purification, cleansing and consecration rituals. If burnt as an incense or thrown into a fire is is said one may draw upon magickal dragon energy.
IVY
G/P/E: Masculine, Saturn, Water.
Magical uses:Protects the houses it grows around and over from evil and harm. In the old traditions, Ivy and Holly was given to newlyweds as good-luck charms.