To Banish Unwanted Persons

To banish someone from your life, you will need their picture, a black candle and the *Separation Powder. 

Take the photo and, in black ink, write your name over the entire photo, over and over, line after line.  As you do so, say over and over, “Leave me alone.”  This exerts your control over them. 

Spread the Separation Powder over the image. 

Light the candle and let the wax drip over the image, bonding the powder to the image.  As you do so, say:

I banish you (Name)!

I banish you from my life and from my thoughts!

Go away and leave me alone forever!

Let the wax cool and store in a lunch bag or other container to keep it safe.  This newly created talisman will protect you from them as long as it’s intact and in your possession. 

*Separation Powder

Cloves

Black pepper

½ cup dirt

Crush all into powder.

Elderberry Elixir (recipe adapted from bearmedicineherbals.com)

Ingredients

• 500ml (pint) sized mason jar (or any glass jar that seals well
• Fresh elderberries (I used frozen ones from Quebec)
• About a pint of high quality brandy (the better the brandy, the better the taste)
• Honey, to taste (approx. 1/3 pint or less)
• Stirring spoon

Fill jar to the top with elderberries. Pour honey in slowly, stirring to get good coverage over the berries. Fill jar with brandy, stirring as you go to release air bubbles. Cover the jar with a tight fitting lid and shake (to further mix the ingredients). Let macerate in a dark, cool place for four to six weeks. Strain, reserving liquid. Store in a dry, dark and cool place.

How to use the elixir:

1/4 - 1/2 dropperful of elixir every two to three hours at the first sign of illness. It is important to take the elixir frequently, or else it will not be effective. Use the same dosage when actively ill. For a preventative dose, 1/3 dropperful every four hours or so should work fine.

Rest well and keep hydrated. Extra sleep will help the elixir work as well. You can add spices (cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, orange peel) for extra “zing”, or you can add licorice root, peony root or mullein if you often suffer from respiratory illness. 

Ingredients:

Ground Lavender

Aloe Vera gel (fresh is best, but any will do)

Baking Soda

The amounts are extremely easy to play around with, depending on how much remedy is needed. For about a cup of baking soda, use 1/4 of lavender and as much aloe as desired.

Steep the lavender in hot water, just enough to cover all the herb! Add the aloe gel to the liquid, and then add baking soda. Add as much baking soda as needed, until you get a nice thick paste. Spread evenly over the burn or bite (this works to varying degrees with rashes as well) and then cover with gauze. You can either tape the gauze down with medical tape, or you can wrap the area with an Ace bandage. Leave on for up to 2 hours, or until the poultice has hardened and completely dried.

For burns, the burning sensation should be pulled out. Colour will remain, but the pain will be gone (I know from personal experience, I’m ginger and I use this A LOT).

For bites, the poison will be pulled out. A baking soda/water mix by itself will also do this, but the lavender and aloe help soothe the itch away.

Use only if you’re not allergic to lavender. I’ve read that people can become allergic to it, and when they are it’s a bad allergy. Test some of the remedy on your skin before hand to make sure you have no allergies, and enjoy the sweet bliss that comes when you no longer burn or itch!

1 cup           Dry Rosemary
1 cup           Dry Lavender Flowers
1/2 cup        Dry Chamomile
1/4 -1/2 cup Dry Cloves

Blend all herbs thouroughly and keep in airtight jar.

1teaspoon of herbs equals 1 cup of tea, steep 5 minutes

Instructions To Make Homemade Essential Oils:

Put the oil into the jar then add the plant material and stir. Cover tightly and leave for 48 hours in a sunny windowsill, shaking every 12 hours.

Lay a piece of muslin over the bowl and strain the oils. Gather up the muslin and squeeze the material to extract as much as you can.

Put the oil back to the jar and add fresh material. Continue in a same way until you get the aroma you want.

If the weather is cold and dull you can place the jar in a saucepan of cold water. Slowly heat it until the water become just hand-hot. Keep it the temperature for 10 minutes. Remove the jar. Do this once a day.

After final straining, you can put the oil into a dark glass bottled. The shelf life for your essential oil is 6 - 12 months if kept in a dry, dark, cool place.

If you have ever been to an herb shop, you may note most of the high-end essential herbs are rather expensive. A local place I go to has a great selection of herbs —the problem is that you pay $36 and up for a few ounces!

Lavender sugar can be purchased in most high end stores, but you can also make your own with food grade lavender, sugar and time.
Place 2 tbsp of food grade lavender inside muslin fabric and secure well. Put one cup of sugar into a glass jar with a tight fitting lid, place the packet of lavender into the sugar secure the lid and shake well. Let this sit for a few weeks, shaking occasionally. The sugar is done when one tbsp of sugar removed from the jar smells of lavender (Usually about 2 weeks). Once the lavender sugar is done, it will need to be dried and unless you live in a very dry climate where this can be done on the counter, you will need to dry the sugar at the lowest setting in your oven. Simply spread the sugar on a baking tray (lined can help) and bake until it is no longer sticky. Do NOT use a higher setting to dry it faster! You will end up with runny caramelized lavender sugar.

Lavender sugar can also be mixed with Extra Light Olive Oil to make an AMAZING sugar scrub! Like a back scratch from Mother Nature! 

Heat about a cup and a half of milk. Mix in a teaspoon of honey, and a quarter teaspoon of milk. Froth vigorously. (Hint: pour into mug, hold the whisk between both palms and rub them back and forth quickly)