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

Daisy Bellis perennis
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

friendship, happiness

The English daisy, Bellis perennis, is the quintessential grows-in-a-field daisy, but any variety you find will have the same properties. Daisy, or “day’s eye,” closes at night and opens her bright face in the morning. Daisies grow wild and free and are most commonly seen in grasslands, meadows, and gardens. City Witches can tell you that they grow on lawns and even roadsides, so anyone can find a daisy to work with.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Daisies are edible, and can help heal wounds. The juice can help disinfect bandages, speeding healing and preventing infection. In tea form, daisies can treat coughs, bronchitis, liver and kidney issues, and general inflammation.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

The charming daisy is a flower of friendship, and a bouquet of daisies will brighten a friend’s face—whether this is a new friend, an old friend, or anyone for whom you feel kinship. Daisy’s most profound effect is to help you cultivate a childlike energy. Growing daisies, keeping a bouquet nearby, or even making and wearing a daisy chain crown can help you find your inner child, with all that childlike vibrant joy, sense of play, and emotional freedom. Bring happiness into your home by placing daisies by your front door, or hang a dried bundle in your children’s rooms to bring them sweet and joyful dreams.

PLANT WISDOM

Daisy speaks of the kind of friendship that lasts forever, the friends who are there for you through thick and thin, who love and accept you just as you are. They support you and cheer you on. If you don’t feel like you have friends like these, work with daisy to bring them into your life. You can also invite her into your dreams to help you determine if there’s something keeping you from opening up and trusting the potential friends who come your way.