Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants - Juliet Diaz 2020

Motherwort Leonurus cadiaca
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

protection, intuition

Motherwort is part of the mint family. She’s been cultivated since ancient times, and can be found in the most peculiar of places, anywhere from roadsides to burial grounds. There’s a legend concerning a village that got all its water from a spring that ran through a patch of motherwort. Every day, the villagers drank from that spring . . . and all of them lived to be more than a hundred years old.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

The parts of this plant that grow above ground are used for healing. Motherwort can calm anxiety, and also regulate menstruation and help expel afterbirth. Motherwort may also treat heart conditions like arrhythmia or a fast heartbeat.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Motherwort will support any protection spell, and you can also add her to any spell you want to last for a long time—she will extend its energies. This is a particularly good idea for money, success, and health spells. Motherwort will also help you in your own internal wisdom, and you can amplify your intuition by growing motherwort yourself, rather than just purchasing her dried. As you care for her, imagine your auric field expanding and your third eye opening, and she will make it so.

PLANT WISDOM

To be honest, motherwort isn’t very mothering. In fact, this extremely protective plant is also known as lion’s-ear or lion’s-tail, and she is indeed ferocious when she needs to be. She is the protectress of mothers and children. If you are a single mother, bring her into your life and she will help you in tough times. If your child is being bullied, feels like they don’t belong or fit in, suffers from depression, or just likes to be alone a lot and has difficulty letting people in, motherwort will help. She can bring perspective and a sense of belonging. You can have your child meditate with her, care for her, and talk with her, or you can simply sprinkle some motherwort in your child’s pockets before sending him or her off to school. Invite motherwort into your dreams to discover a hidden talent or gift that you never knew you had!