Solomon`s Seal

 

 

 
Gender: Feminine

Planet: Saturn

Element: Water

Chakra Colour: Yellow

Medicinal Uses: Solomon’s Seal is a useful herb for lung disease, especially when there is bleeding in the lung. The part used is the root. The roots are mashed with a little cream and made into a poultice for black eyes, bruises and sprains. Mixed with powdered slippery elm bark, they make a poultice for fresh wounds. It is healing and soothing to the intestinal tract and is given for hemorrhoids, chronic dysentery, tuberculosis, and heart conditions. One ounce of the root can be simmered in one cup of water for twenty minutes and given in quarter-cup doses, four times a day. The leaves are simmered into salves. The roots are mashed and simmered in wine and given to humans or animals to promote bone healing.

Magical Uses: Solomon’s seal is an herb of cleansing and consecration. Add it to the incense on the altar. Use it during rites of exorcism or protective rituals. The root is used either whole, place in the four corners of the home for protection, or as an infusion and sprinkled to exorcise unwanted spirits. Solomon’s Seal Root was believed to be an aphrodisiac, and was used in many love potions.

Other Names: Dropberry, Lady’s Seal, St. Mary’s Seal, Sealroot, Sealwort, Solomon Seal, Sigillum Sanctae Mariae, Scean de Solomon.

Contraindications: Do not use if you are pregnant or breast feeding, or have diabetes. Avoid if taking diabetic medications or insulin.

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