Wiccans and Pagans how do I make a healing potion?

Question

The recipe or osme other websites that gives potion recipes.

Thats why you send me sites! i Hate people that always says it wont work sheeesh. But yeah jsut a typical health potion. I dont need to be specific.

I treid google. MANY SEARCHES. I Havn' found ANNNYY!

Answer 1

What are you trying to heal? Is it emotional or physical? Different herbs cure different ailments, we'll need more info.

Answer 2

For general health? Eat an apple every day. Maybe some honey. That's about the best general, non-specific preventative remedy that I'd recommend long-term. Even ecchinacea can cause issues if taken for overly-long periods of time.

If you're looking for a potion/infusion/balm/salve/whatever, it's got to be a bit more precise than just an overall "health" thing. Herbs, like normal pharmecuticals, tend to be fairly specific in what effects they have. And, like normal pharmecuticals, are best dealt with by folks who've done a lot of studying - some of them can be downright dangerous when mishandled.

If you're looking for something a bit more mystical, focus on keeping your energy clean and flowing. There's a number of methods for that, but none that I know of that deal with any sort of magic healing potion.

Answer 3

Like with ordinary medicine, alternative medicine is different for each ailment. In fact, many types of alternative medicine look beyond potions to diet, personality and so forth. So asking for a general healing potion is like going into the apothecary and asking for the universal pill that will cure all disease. There is no such thing.
Of course - eating an orange can't hurt. Vitamine C is always good.

Answer 4

Pocket Idiot's Guide to Potions by Kerri Connor

Answer 5

Okay, you wouldn't ask someone to prescribe you traditional medications without them having the proper training to be a doctor. So asking for a "healing potion" here is like asking the internet what kind of antibiotics you need to take.

Go consult an herbalist or naturopath--that's your best bet. There are no quick and easy answers.

Answer 6

Actually, you kinda do need to be more specific, because tonic herbs come in two varieties, and so do healing potions. One type pushes the body in a particular way - for example, Goldenseal, which increases T-cell activity and enhances other immunological functions. It would not be able to recognize the difference between a body deficient in white blood cells and one that had too many white blood cells. Its action is uni-directional. It carries but one signal to the body system; in this example, to produce more white blood cells. This over-stimulation could lead to severe imbalances, and it is unlikely that such an agent would be able to address the problem of an over-reactive immune system, as, for example, in a person with an allergy.

There are other kinds of healing/tonic herbs that are not so unidirectional....like Echinacea, which s capable of sending either of two possible contradictory signals to the body. Thus, in a person with depressed white blood cell counts, Echinacea sends a signal to the body to begin producing more white blood cells, and in a person with too many white blood cells, it decelerates the production of white blood cells. It stabilizes the histamine-containing mast cell membrane in persons with hay fever rather than sensitizing it, as do many immune-enhancers.

Without having any idea of the health problem you want to address, the only responsible thing that I could recommend are the bi-directional/multi-directional tonic herbs, because they restore balance to the body.

Thus, a potion (an infusion in cider vinegar would be easiest) of alfalfa, hops flowers, dandelion root, angelica, celery seed, chamomile, echinacea, peppermint, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto (if you're male), black cohosh (if you're female), thyme, and horehound would work pretty darned well as an all-around tonic to balance the body. But even here, there are cautions - black cohosh can be dangerous for pregnant women.

BUT - do you know how to handle herbs correctly? Do you know how to make tinctures, infusions, and extracts? Would you know the proper amounts of each herb for the potion I briefly described above?

If you did, you wouldn't be asking this question here.

NOW do you understand why it's vital to know what the health problem is? Healing potions need to be formulated for specific problems, to avoid making certain conditions WORSE.


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As the person above mentioned, eat an orange every day, for the vit. C; eat an apple, to maintain healthy bowel movement. Drink at least 8 16-ounce glasses of water (that's IN ADDITION TO any other liquids you drink), and in one of those glasses of water, have a tablespoon of cider vinegar, a dash of cayenne papper, a 1/2 tsp of horseradish, and a tablespoon of onion juice.

And see an herbalist.

Answer 7

ok, your going about it the wrong way. When you ask a question like this you need to be specific as to what kind bc that matters. sorry but my best advice is google.

Answer 8

Willow bark tea. Great for pain. Just make sure that the willow bark is pesticide and herbicide free, otherwise you will get very sick. Buy it at a healthfood store, they make sure the stuff they buy is organic.

Answer 9

a 50-50 mix of honey and cider vinegar is a great health booster, but more specifics would help

Answer 10

Depends on just what your need is.....sorry, but I cannot help any further without more details.....