Herb of the Week
Stinging Nettle
🌿Folk Names: stinging nettle, dead nettle, common nettle
🌿Planet: Mars
🌿Element: Fire
🌿Deities: Thor, Hecate/Hekate, Selkhet, Athena
🌿Health Benefits: reducing inflammation, supporting bone health, and aids in some conditions like arthritis and diabetes (i am NOT a doctor. consult with your physician before taking this as fact, thanks 😊.)
🌿Powers: protection, courage, strength
🌿Magical Uses: Nettle is considered a threshold herb. In witchcraft, thresholds are very important and is often where our craft is the strongest (more on that on Wednesday).
That being said, drying nettle and hanging it in doorways is the best way to ensure protection, ESPECIALLY against jinxes, curses, and hexes.
Nettle is also good in kitchen witchcraft when it comes to banishing curses from your body. “But, Daisy, isn’t nettle poisonous?” It is, if you eat it raw. Don’t be out here raw-doging a spring of nettle, you dumbass.
I love love LOVE nettle cake, it’s one of my favorite edible herb recipes. To get rid of the sting, though, I blanch it first. If you want that full recipe, let me know. You won’t be disappointed.
Actually, if you blanch nettle for any recipe, you can really use it in anything AND you can store it up to a week in the fridge after.
Let me know what else you wanna hear about! Should I do a separate series for poisons and hexes??
Happy Witching!
