Magical Herbs

Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia
Some of the most important health benefits of lavender include its ability to relieve stress, improve mood, promote restful sleep, reduce inflammation, lower skin irritation, prevent infections, eliminate dandruff, and soothe stomach bloating.

Besides protecting warriors, larkspur is said to keep away scorpions and venemous snakes as well as more ethereal threats, like ghosts. On a lighter side, it stands for levity in the language of flowers. It's the birth flower for the month of July. Larkspur is nice mixed with other Summer Solstice herbs - lavender, cinquefoil, mugwort, roses, elder, fennel, vervain, and hemp - in potpourri or incense. It's very pretty for potpourri.

Chamomile is one of the oldest favorites amongst garden herbs and its reputation as a medicinal plant shows little signs of abatement. The Egyptians revered Chamomile for its virtues, and from their belief in its power to cure aches, dedicated it to their gods. No plant was better known to the country folk of old, this plant having been grown for centuries in English gardens for its use as a common domestic medicine to such an extent that the old herbals agree that 'it is but lost time and labor to describe it.