DIY witch’s herbal remedy medicine cabinet must haves
Whether you’re a witch thats into their herbs or a person who prefers CHEAP and natural remedies, this DIY is for you
Here’s what this post will teach you to make:
Echinacea tincture
Plantain – Apple Cider Vinegar Tincture for acne
Healing salve
Chest rub
Arnica salve
Digestive Tea
Throat lozenges
Air purifying spray
OK LETS GET STARTED
1.Echinacea tincture
You will need:
-Dried Echinacea
-Glycerin
-large canning jar
Method:
Pour glycerin over echinacea until it almost reaches the top of the jar. Place lids on these jars and leave for 3 weeks, shaking jar occasionally. After three weeks have past, strain out the herbs. You now have tinctures!
2. PLANTAIN-ACV ACNE TREATMENT
You will need:
Dried Plantain
Apple cider vinegar
Method:
Pour apple cider vinegar over plantain. Close with lid and leave for 4-6 weeks. Strain out the herbs. Use to this tincture on acne on the face or back of arms. If too strong, dilute with a little distilled water.
3. HEALING SALVE
What you will need:
½ cup Olive oil
1/3 cup dried plantain
½ ounce beeswax
a container that can hold ½ cup of salve (or multiple containers)
Method:
-Turn on the oven to 300 degrees. While it warms up, place the jar with plantain/oil into a loaf pan or casserole dish. Add water to the bottom of the pan so it comes up the sides of the jars (about an inch or so).
-Once oven is preheated, place this dish with the jars and water in it, into the oven. Turn OFF the oven. Leave for 3 hours.
-After the three hours for the oil is up, take pan out of the oven and let cool briefly. Strain out the arnica and plantain. In double boiler, place the plantain infused oil. Add ½ ounce of beeswax. Warm over low heat until the beeswax melts. Once the beeswax is completely melted, turn off heat. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly, then pour into clean a clean jar (or jars).
-Allow to cool completely before adding the lid.
Salve will keep for up to a year.
4. CHEST RUB
You will need:
½ cup olive oil
¼ ounce dried plantain leaves or dried mullein (optional)
¼ ounce beeswax
1/8 teaspoon vitamin E oil
15 drops eucalyptus essential oil
6 drops rosemary essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil
4 ounce jar (needs to hold ½ cup)
Method:
-On the stove top place a small pan with a heavy bottom. Add 1/3 cup of plantain and ½ cup oil. Warm over the lowest heat possible. Only needs to warm for about 20 minutes. So set a timer and keep on eye on this!
-Pour the cooled plantain/oil mixture through a cheesecloth and strain out the herbs.
-Place this infused oil back into the pan along with the ¼ ounce of beeswax. Melt over very low heat. Cool slightly and add the essential oils and vitamin E. Stir to distribute evenly.Pour into a clean jar and allow to cool.
-Once completely cool, add the lid and label. This homemade chest rub can be kept for one year at room temperature
5. ARNICA SALVE (soothes bruises, aches, and pains)
What you need:
dried Arnica, .1 ounces
4 ½ ounces grapeseed or olive oil
½ ounce beeswax
canning jar
optional: peppermint essential oil
Method:
Pour oil over arnica flowers in a jar.
Turn on the oven to 300 degrees. While it warms up, place the jars with arnica flowers/oil into a loaf pan or casserole dish. Add water to the bottom of the pan so it comes up the sides of the jars (about an inch or so).
Once oven is preheated, place this dish with the jars and water in it, into the oven. Turn OFF the oven. Leave for 3 hours.
Place arnica infused oil in top of double boiler, add ½ ounce beeswax (this will make a slave consistency. If you want this to be more like a balm, add extra beeswax – this will make it thicker and firmer).
Warm over medium heat until beeswax is melted.
Remove from heat, add 10 drops peppermint essential oil, if desired.
Pour into jar and allow to cool completely before closing with lid.
Note: Arnica salve should be not be used on skin that is broken, or on open wounds. It is intended for use on bruises, bumps, sprains, and aches.
6. Digestive Tea
What you need:
3 ounces dried spearmint leaves
10.5 grams dried licorice root (not ground, but in small chunks)
jar to store tea
Method:
Add digestive tea ingredients (licorice root and spearmint) to a jar. Label and store. (May wish to add to label that 1 tablespoon per cup should be used when brewing the tea.)
7. Throat Lozenges
What you need:
¼-½ cup honey
1 T ground licorice root
¼ cup slippery elm
Method:
Place slippery elm into a bowl and add a few tablespoons of the honey. Stir to combine and add more honey until the consistency resembles playdoh.
(During this time, the plantain/oil mixture on the stove top should be ready to turn off. Remove from heat and allow to cool).
Use approximately 1/8 inch of the ‘playdoh’ mixture to roll a small ball to create a lozenge. Roll this ball in ground licorice root and place lozenge on parchment paper. Repeat until all of the mixture is used.
Let air dry to harden.
8. Air Purifying Spray
What you need:
Sweet Orange essential oil, 12 drops
Lemon Essential oil, 12 drops
Clove bud essential oil, 10 drops
½ ounce vodka
½ ounce distilled water
spray bottle that will hold 1 ounce
Method:
Mix 1 ½ ounce vodka and 1 ½ ounce distilled water in a measuring cup with a spout.
Add 10 drops clove bud essential oil and 12 drops sweet orange essential oil and 12 drops lemon essential oil.
Use to purify the air and to clean door knobs, counter tops, anywhere germs may hide.
That is it for your herbal remedy cabinet must haves!
Happy witching x
~ @indigo-amethyst
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✨Dream Symbols✨🌌
A’s:⭐⭐⭐
Abundance - desire for independence
Accident - something unplanned
Actor//Actress - desire for recognition
Adultery - guilt
Airplane (Transportation)
Altar - self sacrifice
Anchor - stability. Sometimes a desire for a permanent home
Anniffil - the feminine aspect of the individual. Guide to the inner world. Receptive, prospective, and nurturing.
Animal - defends on your feelings for the particular animal. A helpful animal normally represents the instinctive self.
Animus - the masculine aspect of the individual. Uncompromising conviction. Force.
Apple - desire
Arrow - pleasure, festivity
Auction - promise of abundance
Automobile (Transportation)
B’s: ⭐⭐⭐
Baby: Crying - frustrated plans, Laughing - plans fulfilled, Sleeping - waiting period, patience
Balloon - frustration
Basement - a place of refuge or retreat
Battle - inner conflict
Bells - fulfillment of plans, joy
Bicycle (Transportation) - hard work will bring plans to fruition
Birds - usually transcendence from one being to another
Birth - transition to new phase or new aspect of self
Bridge - overcoming difficulties, a change
Broom - the ability to sweep or clean up
Bull - animal nature, stubborness
Burial - end of a phase, time to take a new direction
C’s:⭐⭐⭐
Candle - constancy
Cane//Crutch - the need for support
Capital (City//Town) - the center
Castle - ambition
Cave - a place of retreat or refuge, a need for time to think and meditate
Circle - totality, perfection, infinity
Cities - gatherings of consciousness
Climbing - the self mastery process, rising consciousness
Clock - the passage of time, the need to take action
Clothes - attitude, personality
Coffin (Burial)
Cradle - potential for advancement
Crossing a River - a fundamental change of attitude
Crying - emotion, usually a sad event
Crystal - union of matter and spirit
Curtains - concealment, adornment
Colors🌈🌈🌈
Red - strength, health, vigor, sexual love, danger, charity
Orange - encouragement, adaptation, stimulation, attraction, plenty kindness
Yellow - persuasion, charm, confidence, jealousy, joy, comfort
Green - finance, fertility, luck, energy, charity, growth
Blue - tranquility, understanding, patience, health, truth, devotion, sincerity
Indigo - changeability, impulsiveness, depression, ambition, dignity
Violet - tension, power, sadness, piety, sentimentality
D’s:⭐⭐⭐
Darkness - the spirit world, the subconscious, turning inward
Death - the end of something, opportunity for new beginnings
Dog - loyalty, laziness, anger
E’s:⭐⭐⭐
Eating - need for new interests, stimulation
Evening - descending into the subconscious world
Eye - perception, self-examination
F’s:⭐⭐⭐
Falling - failing to live to expectations
Fish - transcendence from one state of being to another
Fire - anger, purification, abundance of energy
Flowers - contentment, pleasure
Flying (Transportation)
G’s:⭐⭐⭐
Girl - immature feminine aspect
Glass - perception, being able to see (sometimes in the future)
Graduation - initiation, completing a phase
H’s:⭐⭐⭐
Hair - thought, grey or silver hair indicates wise thought
Hammer - power to drive forward
Helpful Animal - the instinctive self
Highway - the path, the way ahead
Horse: White Horse - symbol of life, prosperity; Black Horse - change of fortunes; Wild Horse - uncontrolled instinctive urges; Winged Horse - transcendence from one state of being to another
House: The symbol of personality and conscious interest from the spiritual view. The particular room represents particular interest >> Bathroom - cleansing, elimination of the undesired; Basement - place of refuge, retreat, concealment; Bedroom - place of rest and recovery; Dining Room - place of sustenance, refortification; Kitchen - a place to prepare the sustenancen; Living Room - place of socializing
I’s: ⭐⭐⭐
Ice - coldness of character, frigidity, rigidity
Illness - boredom, delay
Individual Self - the “real” you, the inner you, the all-wise, all-powerful spiritual self
J’s:⭐⭐⭐
Jail - confinement, frustration, inability to act
Journey (Transportation)
Judge //Jury - your conscience
K’s:⭐⭐⭐
Key - the answer to a problem
Kiss - satisfaction, completion
L’s:⭐⭐⭐
Ladder - ability to climb (note the length of the ladder)
Left (as in side of direction) - the subconscious side, sometimes the wrong side of direction, the logical side, the scientific side
Light - hope
Lines: Broken lines - represents the feminine aspect; Solid lines - the masculine aspect
Lizard - transcendence
Lock - frustration, security
M’s:⭐⭐⭐
Man//Male - animus, the masculine aspect, the age indicates the maturity or lack of it in the individual
Mask - falsehood, deception, concealment
Mirror - need to reconsider
Mother - heaven, comfort
N’s:⭐⭐⭐
Nakedness - real, true, without false attitudes, exposed, natural
Night - greatest strength of the super-consciousness
Noon - the greatest clarity of consciousness
Numbers 💯💯💯
Even Number - signify balance and harmony
Odd Number - signify imbalance and discord
The beginning, the source, the ego
Duality, the male and female, positive and negative
Father, mother, and child; past, present, and future
The material universe, consciousness, reality, and law, physical power, initiative, religion and spiritual evolution
It represents materialism, expansion, change, understanding, and change
The number of cooperation and balance. It represents interaction between the material and the spiritual, mental and physical. It signifies psychism, peace
Completion, old age, endurance, evolution and wisdom. The seven stages of spiritual transformation
The number of dissolution and separation. The law of cyclic evolution and invention
Rebirth and reformation. Intuition, travel, karma
0. The circle, infinity, the universe
O’s:⭐⭐⭐
Ocean - opportunity, spirituality
Owl - wisdom, need for further evaluation
P’s:⭐⭐⭐
Pearl - joy; Broken string of pearls - misunderstanding
Pirate - suspicion
Pyramid - thirst for knowledge, seeking
R’s:⭐⭐⭐
Railroad - a set path to follow
Rainbow - great happiness, opportunity
Reading - learning, gaining in knowledge, perceiving
Riding (Transportation)
Right - the consciousness, correctness, the artistic side
Ring - completion, loyalty
River - spirituality, a boundary
Rocket (Transportation)
Rocks - the unchanging self
Rodents - transcendence or a less-than-nice person, distrust, betrayal
Roller Skates (Transportation)
Roses (Flowers)
Ruins - failure of plans
S’s:⭐⭐⭐
Sacrifice - overcoming pride
School - a need to learn
Scissors - distrust
Sea (Ocean)
Self-image - the inner or spiritual self
Shadow - the subconscious, insubstantiality
Ship (Transportation)
Skeleton - the basics, the root of a problem
Snake - spiritual wisdom, transcendence into a state of wisdom
Snake-bites - infusion of wisdom
Soldiers - force, power, regeneration
Spade - cutting, tough work lies ahead
Sunrise - clearing of consciousness, awakening
Sunset - need to protect assets
Swan - beauty, comfort, satisfaction
Sword - conflict
T’s:⭐⭐⭐
Table - support, a platform for presentation
Telescope - need to get closer to a subject
Thief - loss or fear of loss, insecurity
Thunder - anger
Touching - healing. On rare occasions it may mean a curse. Can be comfort, security. The manner of touch and your feeling about it is important
Trains (Transportation)
Transcendence - achieving full realization of the individual self
Transformation (Transcendence)
Transportation - spiritual advancement. The more efficient the mode, the more effective and rapid is the advancement
Tree - the life principle, psychic growth and development, progress
Tunnel - hiding, being afraid
Turning - changing or developing. Turning in a circle represents lack of progress
Twins - ego and alter ego
U’s & V’s:⭐⭐⭐
Umbrella - shelter
Veil - insecurity
Volcano - emotions
W’s:⭐⭐⭐
Wall - frustration, inability
Water - spirituality, emotion
Wedding - culmination of plans, happiness, success
Witch - supernatural ability, wisdom
Wreath - self pity
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