Showing posts with label roots herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roots herbs. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Hoodoo Facts About Rosemary

Rosemary is an herb I grew up around. My mama kept a large pot of it on the front porch. Rosemary is one of the easiest herbs to grow. Once it takes root it basically tends to its self. I have never researched the plant until now; I thought I might find something new about it that I hadn’t been taught growing up and I found something very interesting in the Wikipedia on-line under Mythology;      “ The Virgin Mary is said to have spread her blue cloak over a white-blossomed rosemary bush when she was resting, and the flowers turned blue. The shrub then became known as the 'Rose of Mary”.

I was taught that Rosemary keeps the wife/Mother with the upper hand of the household. I tend to believe this because my Mama ran our house. I have a large pot growing on my breeze way; when I water it the smell just wafts up and it reminds me of my Mama. Funny how we associate smells with people. Rosemary is also good for protection, cleansing and some say prosperity work. It is well known amongst ole conjurers that Rosemary is a woman’s herb and she always gives the woman the upper hand!

If you are Wife and or a Mother you need this trick. Take a photo of the family place it in the center of a white handkerchief; on top of the photo sprinkle a pinch of Rosemary, Loveage, and Solomons Seal. Then roll the handkerchief towards you and then tie it in a knot, making a packet. Since the kitchen is the heart of the home, place the packet on top of the fridge-Adair. If there are issues within the home take the packet down and pray that peace rain; then return it back on top of the fridge. Momma Starr

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Heal The Tree So the Roots Can Grow

The Gullah

I have no papers to prove these work only what people in the South has used for years

Arthritis – cherry bark mullen leaf warm for pain
Asthma – speedwell
Backache- red oak bark,sassafras root
Blood pressure- hig galaxd green moss,garlic
Breath shortness –gala ,red onions
Burns –cow dung,spittle,aloe
Colds, general, brown muckle,button snakeroot,boneset,marsh muckle alone or with pine tar
alone or with herbs,sweet gum
Colds,bed – white root
Colds,body – black root whiteroot
Colds, chest – red onions
Colds,confinement – blackroot,pokeroot,whiteroot
Colic –American aloe
Conception for whiteroot
Coughs- speedwell, red onion mix with honey
Cramps- life everlastingmhoehound
Cuts-spider webs turpentine
Decongestant-life everlasting,snakeroot, pine tar, lemon
Diaphoretic- boneset
Diuretic- Jerusalem artichoke,kidney weed
Dropsy- Jerusalem artichoke
Flu- ife everlasting
Fever- bitter apple,boneset,holly,pine tar Indian shot,ironweed,life everlasting rignum
Mullein,nightshade,oiil bush, tadawas, whiteroot,yellow muckle,pine tar
Foot pain-life everlasting
Gravelly voice-speedwell
Griping-blackberry
Headaches- Indian shot (bind head) soda, hot water
Squeeze the head wear a string tied around head
Knotted to draw the pain.
Hemorrhage-cob webs and soot (while giving birth)
Itch – hairy laurel
Jaundice- Jerusalem artichoke
Kidneys- kidney weed
Menstruation- life everlasting,Hoehound
Pain,general – comfrey,poke root
Poultices- clay and green moss,alone and together swamp grass
Pregnancy, cold during-blackroot,pokeroot,whiteroot
Respiration- speedwell
Rheumatism- Angelica Tree,mullin leaf
Sight,loss of – sutras
Snakebite- American aloe,Angelica tree,common ironweed
Sores- American senna,elderberry,gum tree Okra blossoms,alone or with octagon soap,sugar
Old hag’s table
St.John’s – sutras
Spains-camphor,green alcohol,
Stimulants-Angelica tree,cotton root
Stings-fennel
Stomach pain- American wild mint,blackberry root,pine tar,pokeroot,eson salts,sweet gum
Strength-sassasfras
Swollen limbs-mullein
Ticks-red muckle
Tonics-boneset,Jerusalem artichoke,lifeeverlasting,rignum,sassafras,speedwell
Typhoid pneumonia-bonest
Whooping cough-pine tar,white muckle,fiddler carbs
Worms – ayshaberry,button snakeroot,jimsey,sampson’s snakeroot,white snakeroot