Healing Correspondences

 Healing Correspondences

The Wicca Handbook by Eileen Holland

 

Animal: dog, serpent, two entwined snakes

 

Candle: white, red (for organic healing)

 

Colors: white, blue, green, gold, orange, magenta (for spiritual healing)

 

Element: All, fire to destroy disease

 

General: angels, Alauwaimis (a “demon” who drives away sickness), Nanan Bouciou

 

Goddesses: Artemis of the Thousand Breasts (or Beasts, this could have been a typo from the book), Athena, Brigit (who heals by poetic incantations at sacred wells), Carmenta, Earth Goddesses, Gaia, Hygeia, Inanna, Ishtar, Isis, Kadesh, Kupala, Meditrina, Moon Goddesses, Panacea, Sarasvati, Sekhmet (Lady of Life), Spes (for the healing power of drug-induced sleep), Sulis 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), Govannon, Hercules the Healer, Hermes, Khonsu, Marduk (Great Healer), Mars Ocelus, Mercury, Paeon (Healer of All Ills), Raphael, Shakaburu, Thoth, Vishnu

 

Incense: cedar, cinnamon, eucalyptus, frankincense, ginseng, pine, rosemary, sandalwood, violet

 

Number: 1, 3, 7, 9

 

Plant: (For charms, not 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, lime, mandrake, milkweed, mistletoe, mugwort, pine, plum, potato, rose, rosemary, rowan, rue, saffron, sandalwood, wood sorrel, thyme, vervain, violet, willow, wintergreen

 

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

 

Stone: 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)

 

• Amethyst for addiction and compulsive behavior
• Aquamarine to soothe the heart
• Moonstone to balance harmones
• 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

 

For:

 

Bleeding – Mud-kesda (Blood Stauncher)

 

Childbirth – Alemona (health of an unborn child), Aruru, ‘Aveta (the Midwife), Brigit (safe delivery), Candelifera (who brings newborns into the light), Carmenta, Eileithya (She Who Aids Women in Labor), Freya (easy childbirth), Hannahhannas Hecate (final stage of labor), Heket, Lucina (She Who Brings to Light), Ninhursag (Lady Mother), Toci

 

Children (see also Newborns) – 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 balm, rosemary, sage, St. John’s Wort, wild thyme, valerian, lemon verbena, blue vervain, yerba mate

            Candle: pink, yellow

            Metal: Gold

            Stone: carnelian, coral, garnet, fire garnet, carbuncle, lapis lazuli, sardonyz, sapphire, sodalite, tiger’s eye

 

Disease – Gula-Bau (Great Physician), Sha’taqat, Hatdastsisi, Hayenezgani (diseases caused by witchcraft)

            Plant: hemlock, mugwort, woody nightshade, rue

 

Epilepsy – Plant: anise, peony root, vervain

 

Eye Problems – Yen Kuang Niang-Niang (who cures ophthalmia), Bugid Y Aiba (who restores failed eyesight)

            Plant: polygonum root

 

Fatigue – Plant: mugwort, southernwood

 

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 – 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 – Ganga , Hygeia, Paraskeva-Platnitsa (health with marriage), Babalu-Aye, Lubanga, Salus, Teharon

            Color: red, green

            Number: 7

            Stone: 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

 

Hemorrhoids – Plant: lesser celandine

 

Herbalism – Greine, Morgen (herbal cures), Acamede (who knows all the drugs that grow on Earth)

 

Hysteria – Plant: pennyroyal

 

Impotence – Uliliyassis

            Plant: yohimbine

 

Infection – Plant: southernwood

 

Leprosy – Oreithyia

            Plant: white poplar leaves

 

The Limbs – Khnum (who knitteth together and strengtheneth the limbs)

 

Long Life – His 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 – Juno (for a healthy baby), Juno Lucina, Lucina (eyesight of newborns), Mayin (who breathes life into newborns), Weri Kumbaba (speedy recovery after circumcision)

 

Pain – Achelois (She Who Drives Away Pain), Kwain-Yin (who frees from pain), Achelous (He Who Drives Away Pain

            Stone: aquamarine, jasper

 

Pestilence – Plant: angelica

 

Preventive Medicine – Hygeia

 

Poison – 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

 

Snake Bite – Janguli (Knowledge of Poisons), Aker

 

Vertigo – Plant: woody nightshade

 

Warts – Plant: beans, dandelions