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

Cat’s Claw Uncaria tomentosa
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

psychic ability, unblocking, abundance

Uña de gato or cat’s claw is a woody vine with claw-shaped thorns. The cat’s claw vine climbs as nimbly as a feline—hence the name. With the help of three-pronged, claw-like tendrils, she can climb as high as 65 feet!

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Cat’s claw is found in Central and South America, where for centuries she has been used to treat arthritis and digestive disorders. It’s anti-inflammatory properties can help regulate the immune system and has even be used to treat cancer.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Tea made from the inner bark or roots of cat’s claw is quite bitter, but a little honey will help it go down. Peruvian shamans worked with cat’s claw to help bring people back into balance—when there is any kind of unease or sense of inequality in your life, cat’s claw can help you find your equilibrium again. Cat’s claw is a perfect companion for vision quests, as she amplifies psychic powers and wakes intuition. She can also help clear whatever has been blocking you or causing you to be unbalanced, making her a powerful manifesting machine, specifically in wealth and money. She is resilient and bountiful and can bring this energy and presence into your Magical workings.

Cat’s claw bark is perfect for adding to incense blends to increase psychic powers, and you can also add it to your money-drawing spells, or even place it in sachets for attracting money. I like to keep her in my manifesting journal pages when I am writing abundance affirmations.

PLANT WISDOM

Grow my dear, grow! And don’t you look down, for you are meant to reach the skies, mighty and high. Oh, how cat’s claw loves to tell me tales of reaching for the stars and breaking through whatever life throws at me. Just as she is resilient, she ignites this same powerful energy in those who work with her. I work closely with her, and so in dreams where I’m falling, she senses my despair and appears, latching onto me and lifting me back up, even higher than the place I fell from. Because of her, I’m not afraid to take a leap, even when I have no idea of where I will land.