I have a number of herbals and bookmarked websites, but there are four that I use most and value most highly:
-Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs is a thorough resource with elemental and astrological associations, history, and uses. Rarely cites his sources, but that's my only complaint.
-Marie Rodway's A Wiccan Herbal is 126 pgs, but I've found it to contain more useful information than several herbals I own that are each twice or thrice its length. Collected from a variety of priest/esses whose bios are in the back.
-Charlotte Erichsen-Brown's Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: a Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes is exactly what it says on the tin, and exhaustive. Each plant or tree has between a paragraph and a couple pages of listings by date, location, and source of references to its medicinal and household uses.
-The English Spice Index has little magical but lots of historical, botanical, and medicinal information on each spice and herb. Only lists things used in cooking, but because it pulls from worldwide food habits, you'd be surprised how much is there.
What resources have you found to be most useful?
-Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs is a thorough resource with elemental and astrological associations, history, and uses. Rarely cites his sources, but that's my only complaint.
-Marie Rodway's A Wiccan Herbal is 126 pgs, but I've found it to contain more useful information than several herbals I own that are each twice or thrice its length. Collected from a variety of priest/esses whose bios are in the back.
-Charlotte Erichsen-Brown's Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: a Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes is exactly what it says on the tin, and exhaustive. Each plant or tree has between a paragraph and a couple pages of listings by date, location, and source of references to its medicinal and household uses.
-The English Spice Index has little magical but lots of historical, botanical, and medicinal information on each spice and herb. Only lists things used in cooking, but because it pulls from worldwide food habits, you'd be surprised how much is there.
What resources have you found to be most useful?
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