Herbs + Plants for Women's Work
Long before the insurgence of the pharmaceutical industry — which focuses on suppressing surface-level symptoms of a condition for a lengthy period of time, leaving us unable to heal the root cause of our suffering — our ancestors used herbs and plants as medicine.
The bounty of medicine Mother Earth provides for us is free and available for our use at any time, and her offerings access what ails us at the core. For every illness on the planet, there is a plant or combination of plants that can help heal it.
Through government- and pharmaceutical-backed propaganda — and the incredibly expensive efforts they implement to keep us as lifelong customers at the pharmacy — we have nearly forgotten the ancient wisdom of what nature has to offer our health and well-being.
While prescription medication suppresses or minimizes pain temporarily, it often initiates a new set of symptoms and ailments — side effects of the medication — that can leave us feeling even more sick. Then more prescriptions are offered to help ease these ‘new’ symptoms.
Before long, we find ourselves mixing up prescription cocktails every day, dependent on little blue and orange plastic bottles.
Do we really want to live the rest of our lives treating our ‘wounds’ by simply putting band-aids on issues that lie much deeper, below the surface?
Herbal medicines work by treating the wound at its source, by healing from within. By helping our bodies remember how to heal themselves, and strengthening our anatomical systems to continue to work for us.
As the Western World becomes more and more unwell, what do we have to lose by tapping back into the oldest medicine the world has known?
We can only begin to feel more well.
For women specifically, an abundance of herbs and plants exist that support whole-being healing — meaning the mind, body and spirit.
Because our wellness is related to so much more than the physical body.
Past traumas lead to emotional and spiritual sickness. Conditioned beliefs and patterns we’ve learned from governing bodies, our families, our religions, and the mainstream media lead to mental anguish. And after decades of cycling through these unhealthy paradigms, eventually, our physical bodies become unwell.
To rise up in our full strength as warrior women, we must commit to targeting whole-being wellness. The following herbs and plants are proven to support this movement into vitality. Let us thrive.
Check with your professional health care provider before using any of the following plants. No information contained on this page, or mentioned throughout this website, is meant to diagnose, treat or cure any ailment. It is especially important that pregnant and breastfeeding women consult their care providers prior to using any plant or herb.
Myrrh
Represents and invokes the Goddess energy
Heals personal sorrow
Acts as an antiparasitic agent
Burn Myrrh and repeatedly chant the name of a beloved to spark their love for you
Lily
Promotes fertility
Ensures a happy marriage
Intensifies weak contractions during childbirth
Assists women in delivering the placenta following birth
Essential oil of Lily helps ease symptoms of depression
Mistletoe
Combats infertility due to hypertension issues
Eases symptoms of menopause
Assists in conceiving a child, when worn as a charm
Alleviates vaginal issues such as discharge
Reduces epileptic episodes
Mugwort
Works as a fertility charm when carried
Intensifies lust and sexual desire
Helps heal various reproductive challenges when rubbed onto the pelvic area in oil form
Assists in confronting challenging inner truths
Aids easeful menstruation and childbirth
Drink as a tea to promote psychic abilities
Jasmine
Boosts sexual prowess
Assists in fertility
Attracts a lover deeply rooted in spirituality
Acts as an aphrodisiac
Relaxes and combats anxiety
Burning flowers in the bedroom before sleep promotes mediumistic dreaming
Myrtle
Invokes Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love
Attracts intimate love
Keeps current love exciting
Heals frigidity and loss of libido
Increases fertility
Preserves youthfulness
Reduces candida albicans
Rose
Infuses with the energy of love
Opens the heart
Deepens femininity and the connection to womanhood
Balances hormones
Enhances female intuition
Drink an infusion of rose before bedtime to initiate prophetic dreams
red clover
Invokes the triple goddess (Maiden, Mother, + Crone)
Boosts estrogen levels
Eases pre-menstrual symptoms
Reduces menopausal hot flashes
Increases fertility
Manifests opportunities for rebirth
Red Raspberry Leaf
Cleanses the uterus
Relieves menstrual cramps
Clears stagnant blood in the womb
Increases fertility
Supports the last trimester of pregnancy by preparing the womb for childbirth (do not drink this tea in the beginning of pregnancy)
Promotes urinary health
Lemon balm
Attracts love when carried
Makes a person more desirable and attractive to another
Eases restlessness of the mind
Reignites love and intimacy in a partnership gone stale
Stimulates creativity and artistic endeavours
Empowers one to find their voice
motherwort
Heals relationship fractures between daughters and mothers
Provides ease during times of hormonal transition (pre-menstrual, menopausal, peri-menopausal)
Regulates menstrual blood flow
Supports the healing of endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and ovarian cysts
Initiates healing in troubled intimate relationships
Lavender
Supports female reproductive system
Relaxes and eases anxiety
Improves sleep
Dissuades negative thoughts and depression when burned as incense
Make a wish and place lavender under your pillow before sleep; if you dream of anything related to that wish, your wish will come true
Geranium
Balances womens’ hormones
Settles emotional instability
Eases intense emotions for women after traumatic labour or miscarriage
Affirms self-confidence
Soothes a broken heart
Black Cohosh
Eases menopausal hot flashes
Induces labour
Supports pre-menstrual symptoms
Relieves menstrual cramps
Supports digestion; relieves constipation
Promotes healthy skin by reducing wrinkles, dry skin, rashes, and acne
fenugreek
Supports healthy breast milk production by increasing milk volume
Reduces symptoms of colic in babies when consumed as tea by the mother
Supports easefulness in menopause
Increases appetite + motivates women with eating disorders to stay nourished
Accelerates hair growth
ashwagandha
Reverses signs of aging
Balances hormones in women
Improves sexual health
Supports fertility
Combats chronic fatigue
Reduces anxiety + depression
Acts as an anti-inflammatory + natural pain reliever
Garlic
Supports vaginal health
Reduces yeast infections
Repels evil or negative energy
Hung by the window or bed of a child’s room will prevent nightmares
Assists in sexual prowess
Protects the home when hung in the doorway
Ginger
Relieves mood swings
Boosts energy during times of menstrual or pregnancy lethargy
Reduces nausea in pregnant women
Boosts metabolism to support weight loss
Increases fertility
Boosts the strength of any other herb or plant you’re working with
Balm of Gilead
Mends a broken heart when carried
Attracts new love
Mends quarrels between lovers
Dispels jealousy
Brings comfort to the soul
Encourages reconciliation for lovers who are estranged
maca
Increases fertility
Enhances sexual function
Supports menopausal symptoms
Balances hormones
Increases stamina, vigour and energy
Improves mood
Keeps emotions balanced
Turmeric
Relieves painful menstrual cycles
Normalizes irregular menstrual cycles
Relieves symptoms associated with menopause
Promotes youthful skin
Supports healing in women with endometriosis
Repels malevolent spirits and evil energies
Bestows spiritually purifying properties
basil
Known as The Witches’ Herb, it promotes magick
Soothes tempers between quarrelling partners
Attracts love
Sprinkle over your body while your partner is sleeping to ensure they remain faithful
Drinking a decoction of Basil tea shifts consciousness into the spiritual realm and enhances astral projection
cabbage
Breastfeeding mothers can hold raw cabbage leaves over engorged breasts for relief
Plant cabbage in the garden first thing after you become married to ensure luck in your partnership and abundance in your garden