Magical Herbs, Fruits, & Veggies: P

In the world of herbs and fruits and goodies, the letter P holds some fantastic ones that you already have all around your home.

Palm- Fertility, focus, potency, and divination

Palo Santo- If you feel you have been cursed, rub this herb on your body and then bathe.

Pansy- Love, divination related to love & relationships, rain magick

Papaya- Hang twigs of papaya wood over a door to keep out evil. Eat papaya with a loved one to intensify your love. Mix papaya leaves with mandrake and burn or use in the bath to reverse hexes and jinxes.

Paprika Use to add energy to any spell or mixture. Throw in someone's yard to cause them problems.

Also Called: African Pepper, Bird Pepper, Chili Pepper, Goat's Pod, Grains of Paradise, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Tabasco Pepper, Zanzibar Pepper, Capsicum

Papyrus- Protection

Parsley- Calms and protects the home; Draws prosperity, financial increase, and luck. Restores a sense of well-being. Use in spells to increase strength & vitality after surgery or illness. Use in amulets or other magickal workings to help yourself out of a rut. Eat to provoke lust and promote fertility. Place on plates of food to guard against contamination. Useful for bath magick to purify and end misfortune. Mix with jasmine and carry in your shoe to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

Parsnip- Male sex magick

Passion Flower- Magickal uses include attracting friendship and prosperity and heightening libido. Carried to bring great popularity & attract new friends. Placed in house to calm trouble & arguments and bring peace. Used as a wash to diminish disagreements & stress. Placed beneath pillow to promote sleep. Bathe in an infusion of passion flower for 5 days to attract the opposite sex.

Also Called: Passion Vine, Granadilla, Maracoc, Maypops, Purple Passion Flower, Grandilla

Patchouli- Used in spells, sachets, baths and mixtures for money & love. Put in the wallet or purse to draw money. Place in a charm or use in incense for fertility. Helps to ground you and bring your consciousness back to the physical level. Burn to bring business growth.

Also Called: Patchouly, Pucha Pot

Pau d'Arco- Magickal use is for the ritual healing of severe diseases.

Also Called: Lapacho, Taheebo, Pau Darco

Peach- Fertility, love, and wisdom. Eating peaches induces love. Wear a peach pit to keep away evil. Carry peach wood for longevity. Use peach pits or dried fruit in amulets and sachets for fertility and love.

Pear - Lust and love Eating pears induces love. Use dried fruit in amulets and sachets for love and lust.

Pearl Moss - Sprinkle across the doorway of a home to allow only good spirits to enter.

Peas - Money and love

Peat Moss – Protection

Pecan - Associated with employment, success, job security, and career matters. To insure that you do not lose your job, shell a small amount of pecans. While eating them, slowly visualize yourself working and enjoying your job. Take the shells to work and place them where they won't be found or removed.

Pennyroyal - Magickal uses include peace and tranquility. Carried to avoid seasickness or for physical strength & endurance. Worn to bring success to business. Use to rid the home of negative thoughts against you. Carry when dealing with negative vibrations of any kind. Place on a candle before or during uncomfortable meetings.

Also Called: Tickweed, Squaw Mint, Stinking Balm, Thickweed, Mosquito Plant, Squaw Balm, Lurk in the Ditch, Run by the Ground

Peony - Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity, and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to attract faeries. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Warning: While the flowers & petals have the positive qualities listed, the seed is called 'Jumby Bean' and is known for promoting dissension and strife.

Pepper, Black - Courage, banishing negative vibrations. Burn to rid home or office of bad vibrations. Carry to ward off petty jealousy against you or aid in providing courage to face difficult situations.

Also Called: Piper

Peppermint - Use to increase the vibrations of a space or in spells and incense for healing & purification. Place in sleep pillow to ensure peaceful sleep and bring about prophetic dreams. Use to anoint furnishings and household objects. Burn in a new home to clear out sickness and negative energy. Use in magickal workings to provide the push needed to bring change to one's life. Carry with other herbs to boost love & abundance wishes.

Also Called: Brandy Mint, Lammint

Periwinkle - Love within marriage, mental powers, and money. Carry to obtain grace, attract money, and protect against snakes and poison. Use in magickal workings to restore lost memory. Burn with love incense before having sex with your husband or wife. Note: Can be poisonous, use with caution.

Also Called: Sorceror's Violet

Persimmon - Changing sex, healing, and luck

Pettitgrain – Protection

Pikaki - Draws comfort, prosperity success, and well-being

Pimento – Love

Pimpernel - Protection and health

Pine - Promotes clean breaks, new beginnings, prosperity, success, strength, grounding, and growth; Also used for cleansing, purification, and repelling negativity. Great for house and business blessing.

Pineapple - Luck, money, and chastity. Add an infusion of pineapple to the bath to attract luck.

Pink Root - Healing

Also Called: Indian Pink, Maryland Pink, Wormgrass, Wormroot, Starbloom

Pink Rose Buds -Divine, emotional, and thinking love; start with these to build a long lasting relationship.

Pistachio- Breaking love spells

Plantain- Protection from evil spirits and snake bites, removing weariness, healing headaches; house & business blessing. Place a pinch of dried leaves in the flame of a candle or throw into an East wind for healing. Hang plantain leaves in the car for protection from evil and jealousy.

Pleurisy- Root Healing

Also Called: Butterfly Weed, Wind Root, Canada Root, Silkweed, Orange Swallow Wort, Tuber Root, White Root, Flux Root, Asclepias

Plum - Healing, peace, and love

Plumeria - Promotes persuasiveness, eloquence, and success in dealing with people; Attracts the notice of others.

Also Called: Graveyard Flowers, Melta, Temple Tree

Poke Root - Magickal uses include finding lost objects and breaking hexes and curses. Carry to increase courage. Add an infusion of poke root to bath water to break hexes.

Also Called: Phytolacca, Shang Lu

Pomegranate - Divination, wishes, wealth and fertility

Poppy - Fertility, prosperity, love and abundance.

Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed

Poppy Seeds - Pleasure, heightened awareness, love, luck, invisibility. A popular ingredient in food magick. Sleep on a pillow stuffed with poppy seeds to bring relief from insomnia.

Also Called: Opium Poppy, Mawseed

Potato - Image magick, money, luck, and healing

Prickly Ash Bark - Magickal uses include safe travel, fertility, removing spells and breaking hexes.

Also Called: Toothache Tree, Yellow Wood, Suterberry

Primrose - Promotes the disclosure of secrets, resolution of mysteries, and revelation of truth; Breaks down dishonesty and secrecy. Put an infusion in a child's bath water or the dried herb in their pillows to get them to behave.

Also Called: English Cowslip, Butter Rose, Password

Pumpkin - Lunar magick

Pumpkin Seed - Health