Thyme, dried herb aerials 10g
Botanical name: Thymus vulgaris
Folk Names: Common Thyme, Garden Thyme
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Deities: Freya, Aphrodite, Ares, Elementals particularly elves and faeries
Powers: Health, Healing, Sleep, Psychic, Love, Purification, Courage
Magickal Uses: Thyme is most commonly used (either worn or burned) to promote good health and in healing spells.
Thyme is also used to help promote sleep, evade nightmares and to help develop psychic abilities.
In ancient times, women would wear Thyme sprigs to increase their beauty and attractiveness to men.
Ancient Greeks burned Thyme to purify and cleanse the temples and it has also been historically noted that it was used by warriors and soldiers to promote courage.
Children in particular smell Thyme to help them see the Faery folk!
Healing Properties: Thyme is a wonderful herb with culinary, medicinal and ornamental uses. The flowers, leaves, and oil of thyme have been used to treat bedwetting, diarrhea, stomach ache, arthritis, colic, sore throat, cough, including whooping cough, bronchitis, flatulence, and as a diuretic, to increase urination.
Most commonly used as a herbal tea
*Our herbs are packaged in little plastic ziplock bags with labels
Information Sourced From: Cunninghams' Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, Scott Cunningham.
Wikipedia, www.anniesremedy.com, www.herbs2000.com, www.witchipedia.com, And our own private collection of grimoires and herbal lore