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

Dragon’s Blood Daemonorops
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

protection, amplification, love

Dragon’s blood actually refers to a resin, rather than to a specific plant. It can be obtained from croton, from dracaena, or from cinnamon. Today, most commercially available dragon’s blood resin comes from one of several tropical palms of the genus Daemonorops. The resin is a bright blood red, and has been valued and used since ancient Rome.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Dragon’s blood has antiviral and wound-healing effects. Many natural beauty and care products have dragon’s blood in their formulations for its antiaging, protective, and rejuvenating properties. Dragon’s blood is also great for treating inflammation.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

If you buy the hardened resin, you can break it up with a hammer and then grind it into powder using a mortar and pestle, making it easier to mix with water to create ink. With this ink you can write spells, intentions, even love letters to amp them up. Love letters can be to someone you love, to yourself, or to someone you are crushing on. You don’t have to send them out but just the act of writing will bring those energies to you.

PLANT WISDOM

I simply had to include dragon’s blood in this book, as it’s such an amazing spell amplifier! And not only that, it also protects and purifies. You can burn dragon’s blood to clear negative energies, or simply whenever you want to feel your Magical workings vibrating more powerfully. While its primary powers are love and money, dragon’s blood can also be used for healing and protecting the home.