Sandalwood
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Moon, Jupiter, Sun, Mercury, Venus
Element: Water
Medicinal Uses: Sandalwood is a bittersweet astringent herb that cools the body, calms the mind, relives spasms, and improves digestion. It has diuretic, analgesic and antiseptic effects, often used externally for skin complaints It is used in a steam inhalation can be beneficial for a sore throat. As a paste it has been used to treat skin diseases, dry skin, prickly heat, premature wrinkling, acne and external infections. It prevents excessive sweating and heals inflamed skin. The powder can be mixed in rose water and applied over parts where there is profuse sweating. Sandalwood is one of the most valuable woods in the world. All parts yield sandalwood oil, particularly the heartwood and the roots, the oil is now used as an inhalant for its expectorant and sedative effect on coughs and as a powerful antiseptic for lung and urinary tract infections. It makes a popular incense, as its calming effect aids meditation. It is commonly used to protect places from evil spirits. The fragrant heartwood is a classic for bladder infections. It is taken to help in the passing of stones, in kidney inflammations. The oil is cooling to the body and useful for fevers and infections when used as a massage. The scent is calming to the mind. Sandalwood has been used internally for chronic bronchitis and to treat gonorrhea and the urethral discharge that results. Simmer one teaspoon of the wood per cup of water for twenty minutes, and take up to two cups a day in quarter-cup doses.
Magical Uses: Sandalwood has many magical uses, including protection, spirituality, exorcism, healing, and wish fulfillment. Scatter sandalwood powder around your home to clear it of negativity. Use in healing and exorcism spells. Write a wish on a sandalwood chip and burn in your cauldron. As it burns it sets your magic flowing. Mix it with Lavender it makes wonderful incense which is intended to conjure spirits. It is a popular incense wood, often burned during spells for protection, healing, and exorcism. Used for purification and spirituality. In its powdered form, it provides all of the same desired effects but perhaps with a greater ease of use. Powdered, it is often much easier to use in creating a mixed into a paste to mark icons and the body during rituals of religious devotion. Others, also use it to burn on charcoal as incense that aids in transforming desires and finding an inner peace while maintaining alertness in meditation. In neo-pagan traditions, Sandalwood powder has also been applied as a component added to ritual washes and baths, or burned as incense during rituals and spells of purification and healing.
In magic, it is used for astral projection, exorcism, healing, protection, purification, and to enhance spirituality. It is commonly burned for meditation and divination.
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