Correspondences for Healing

PLANET: Sun, Earth, Full Moon, waxing Moon for increased health and the power of healing, waning Moon to banish or diminish disease

ELEMENT: all, fire (to destroy disease)

ZODIAC: Scorpio, Aquarius (for the healing force of the universe)

NUMBER: 1, 3, 7, 9

JEWEL: amber, bloodstone, jade, ruby, green agate, sapphire, turquoise, jasper, jet, aventurine, hematite, garnet, coral, diamond, emerald, beryl, carnelian, peridot, amber and amethyst (for psychological healing), for other kinds of healing:

- Amethyst for addiction and compulsive behavior;

- Aquamarine to soothe the heart;

- Moonstone to balance hormones;

- Opal, onyx, moonstone for emotional balance;

- Pearl for emotional clarity;

- Peridot for mind/body balance;

- Pyrite for vitality;

- Ruby to heal a relationship with a father;

- Sodalite for physical healing.

Bedouins wear gemstone necklaces for healing

PLANT (for charms, not as medication!): adder's tongue, amaranth, anemone, angelica, apple, *balm, 'balm of Gilead, barley, bramble (blackberry), burdock, calamus (sweet sedge), cannabis, carnation, cedar, horse chestnut, cinnamon, citron, coriander, cotton, cowslip, cucumber, cypress, dock, elder, 'eucalyptus, fennel, flax, gardenia, garlic, geranium, *ginseng, hazel, laurel,  mandrake, milkweed, *mistletoe, mugwort, pine, Plum, potato, rose, *rosemary, rowan, rue, saffron, sandalwood, wood sorrel, 'thyme, vervain, violet, willow, wintergreen

ANIMAL: dog, serpent, two entwined snakes

INVOCATIONS: angels, Alauwaimis (a 'demon" who drives away sickness), Nanan Bouclou

Goddess's:

Artemis of the Thousand Breasts, Athena, Brighid (who heals by poetic incantations at sacred wells), Carmenta, Earth god- desses, Gaia, Hygeia, Inanna, Ishtar, Isis, Kadesh, Kupala, Med- itrina, Moon goddesses, Panacea, Sarasvati, Sekhmet (Lady of Life), Spes (for the healing power of drug-induced sleep), Suhs Minerva, Tara (Queen of Physicians)

Gods:

Adonis, Asclepius the Healer, Apollo the Physician, Baal Marqod, Babalu-Aye, Belenus, Chiron the Centaur (the Wounded Healer), Dian Cecht (who makes whole again), Gov- annon, Hercules the Healer, Hermes, Khonsu, Marduk (Great Healer), Mars Ocelus, Mercury, Paeon (Healer of AU lfls), Raphael, Shakaburu, Thoth, Vishnu

FOR:

Bleeding:

Invoke: Mud-kesda (Blood Stauncher)

Childbirth:

Invoke: Alemona (health of an unborn child), Aruru, 'Aveta (the Midwife), Brigid (safe delivery), Candelifera (who brings newborns into the light), Carfnenta, Eileithya (She Who Aids Women in Labor), Freya (easy childbirth), Han- nahhannas Hecate (final stage of labor), Heket, Lucina (She Who Brings to Light), Ninhursag (Lady Mother), Toci

Children (see also Newborns):

Invoke: Edusa (who nourishes children)

Plant (as charms only!): pomegranate blossoms for stomach ailments in children, daffodil for teething pain

Cough:

Plant: black hellebore root

Depression:

Charms and spells may ease the blues, but serious depression requires medical intervention.

PLANET: Mercury

PLANT: lemon barn, rosemary, sage, St. John's Wort, wild thyme, valerian, lemon verbena, blue vervain, yerba mate

CANDLE: pink, yellow

METAL: gold

JEWEL: carnelian, coral, garnet, fire garnet, carbuncle, lapis lazuli, sardonyx, sapphire, sodalite, tiger's eye.

Disease:

Invoke: Gula-Bau (Great Physician), Sha'taqat; Hatdastsisi, Hay- enezgani (diseases caused by witchcraft)

Plant: hemlock, mugwort, woody nightshade, rue

Epilepsy :

Plant: anise, peony root, vervain

Eye Problems:

Invoke: Yen Kuang Niang-Niang (who cures ophthah-nia); Bugid Y Aiba (who restores failed eyesight)

Plant: polygonum root

Fatigue:

Plant: mugwort, southemwood

Giddiness:

Plant: combs made of rosemary wood

To Heal Sick Cattle:

Plant: St. John's flower

To Heal the Heart:

Plant: cuckoo flower

To Heal a Broken Heart:

Invoke: Branwen (who cures passion), Oenone (who heals jealousy and remorse), Tara (Queen of Physicians, who heals sorrows)

Plant: balm of Gilead (poplar buds, carried as close to the heart as possible)

Health:

Color: red, green

Number: 7

Jewel: agate, aquamarine, carnelian, peridot, jet, pearl, ruby Animal: serpent

Plant: anemone, ash, caraway, carob, camphor, coriander, ferns, figwort, rue, St. John's Wort, wood sorrel, sunflower, tansy, thyme, walnut

Invoke: Ganga, Hygeia, Paraskeva-Platnitsa (health with marriage); Babalu-Aye, Lubanga, Salus, Tcharon

Hemorrhoids:

Plant: lesser celandine

Herbalism:

Invoke: Greine, Morgen (herbal cures); Acamede (who knows all the drugs that grow on Earth)

Hysteria:

Plant: pennyroyal

Impotence:

Invoke: Uliliyassis

Plant: yohimbine

Infection:

Plant: southernwood

Leprosy:

Invoke: Oreithyia

Plant: white poplar leaves

The Limbs:

Invoke: Khnum (who knitteth together and strengtheneth the limbs)

Long Life:

Invoke: Hsi Wang Mu, Takotsi (Our Grandmother Growth), Ushas; Fukurokuju, Junrojin, Shou-hsing, Shou-lao

Plant: angelica, cypress, lemon, peach, sage, tansy

Mental Disorientation:

Plant: pennyroyal

Newborns:

Invoke: Juno (for a healthy baby), Juno Lucina, Lucina (eyesight of newborns); Mayin (who breathes life into newborns), Weri Kumbaba (speedy recovery after circumcision)

Pain:

jewel: aquamarine, jasper

Invoke: Achelois (She Who Drives Away Pain), Kwan-yin (who frees from pain); Achelous (He Who Drives Away Pain)

Pestilence:

Plant: angelica

Preventive Medicine:

Invoke: Hygeia

Poison:

Invoke: Janguli (]knowledge of Poisons)

Plant: black hellebore root, figs and rue, heliotrope, mistletoe

Rheumatic Cramps:

Plant: willow leaves and bark

Seasickness:

Plant: feverfew

Skin Eruptions:

Plant: henbane, lesser celandine