Anise: Tea form -- treatment for colic; sedative

Basil: Tea form -- colds, flu, cramps, bladder

Bay: do not take internally -- use as poultice on chest for bronchitis and chest colds

Black Pepper: take at first sign of any disease

Bonset: tea form -- laxative and fever

Caraway: mild stimulant for digestion

Catnip: tea or dried form-- excellent for calming down; serenity (has the opposite effect on cats!:)

Cayenne: fast recovery, stops internal and external bleeding, said to prevent heart attacks and also helps with depression and headaches.

Chammomile: tea form--good for calming down, and also for sore throats. Note: Do not take if you are allergic to Ragweed, Chammomile is in the same family.

Cinnamon: ground or taken with milk -- good balance after a heavy meal or dessert; also used for diarrhea, dysentery or general indigestion

Cloves: chew for toothache, also good for nausea or vomitting

Fennel: tea form -- to expel mucus

Fenugreek: tea form -- also to expel mucus with bad cases of bronchitis

Garlic: high and low blood pressure; removing parasites and infections

Ginger: tea form -- for cramps and nausea; externally for stiffness; add in cooking to detoxify meat, especially chicken

Rosemary: tea form -- for treating headaches or body aches

Thyme: tea form -- to rid of intestinal worms; can also be used as mouth wash

Tumeric: added to warm milk -- regulates menstral cycle

To allay fears: Carry a mixture of nettle and yarrow.

To Detect Witches: Carry a sachet of Rue, maidenhair, agrimony, broom-straw, and ground ivy.

To Be Courageous: Wear a fresh borage flower, or carry mullien.

Avoid Military Service: Wear the 4-leaved clover if you wish to avoid duty.

To Ensure Safety And Protection On A Journey: Comfrey worn or carried will safeguard you.

To Prevent Storms and Wreckage While At Sea: Put a clove of garlic in your purse or in your pocket. In the South Pacific or in Hawaii wear a garland of ti leaves.

To Guard Against Rape: Wear the heather to avoid all acts of passion.

To Keep One From Dreaming: Hang a sprig of lemon verbena around the neck.

To Conceive: Wear the mistletoe, the cyclamen, or the bistort.

To Prevent Weariness While Walking: Put mugwort in the shoe.

To Keep Venemous Beasts and Wild Animals Afar: Wear avens or mullien.

To Keep Others From Deceiving You: Wear the pimpernel or snapdragon.

To Keep Disease Afar: Wear a sprig of rue around the neck.

To Enable A Soldier To Escape His Enemies: Wear the vervain and you shall accomplish this.

To Avoid Being Sent To The Gallows: Wear or carry a carnation.

To Ensure Victory: Wear woodruff to win.

Ensure That Friendly Words Are Spoken To You: Wear the heliotrope.

To Enter The Underworld: Carry an apple, or the branch of an apple tree that bears buds, flowers, and fully ripened fruit.

To Regain Lost Manhood:Carry an acorn or mandrake root.

To Remain Youthful: Carry an acorn.

To Prevent Drunkeness: Wear a chaplet of saffron, crocus, parsley, or rue to prolong your enjoyment.

To See Faeries:Gather wild thyme and carry it with you, or put it on the eyelids (with your eyes closed) and sleep on a fairy hill.

To Be A Successful Fisherman: Carry a bit of the hawthorn.

To See A Unicorn: As this beast usually lives among the ash trees, carry a bit of the wood or leaves and you may see one. Or lie down among ashes and place one of its leaves on your chest and wait for one to make itself known.