BAY
Bay Leaves
Bay Laurel
laurus nobilis

DO NOT TAKE INTERNALLY

PARTS USED
Leaves, fruit, oil

ASTROLOGY: Leo
GENDER: Masculine
PLANET: Sun
ELEMENT: Fire

Protect grain for livestock; to keep bugs from the grain,
add a cheesecloth bag full of bay leaves to the grain barrel.

Bug free grain and flour; Add bay leaves to small bag
of pepper (black or cayenne) and tie tight.
Add to flour bin to keep weevils out.

External Use
An infusion or tincture can be used to help heal bruises,
sore joints, and Prevent dandruff when used as a hair rinse.
Poultice on chest for bronchitis and chest colds.

Internal Use
Bay Leaves may be used as a leaf infusion or tincture.
This can help; indigestion, poor appetite,
induce menstruation, and prevent gas.

Green
Majickal
Religious
Visionary

Invocatory
Apollo, Daphne, Fides

Magical Attributes
wisdom
protection
psychic powers
banishes negative energy

Psychic visions and dreams, repels negativity and evil.

Main Magickal Uses
Clairvoyance, consecration, divination, dreams, exorcism,
healing, love, passion, protection, psychic protection,
purification, wisdom, wishes

Other Magickal Uses
Endings, good luck, harmony, Imbolc, inspiration, justice,
knowledge, magic, memory, money, overcome opposition,
peace, psychic development, release, spell-breaking, strength,
success, tranquility, transformation, Winter rituals, Yule.

HISTORY
Use of Bay leaves reaches back centuries.
Bay leaves were used as a medicinal remedy as well
as a cooking herb by different cultures around the world.
Bay Leaves can be found in many soups around the world,
as well as in many meat dishes, such as roasts!
Although Bay leaves ad zeal to all foods,
Bay Leaves themselves should not be eaten!

This Evergreen Tree is known as Laurel.
Plant in pot for indoor cultivaton.

Leaves of this tree are used medicinally for it's herbal properties.

The Bay Tree has dark green oval leaves, small yellow flowers and produces
dark purple black fruit.
It can grow up to fifty feet high, but most Bay Trees only grow
a height of 20 feet.

LORE
Bay leaves come from a tree called the laurel, and have
a strong tradition as a Greek sacred plant.

When the nymph Daphne wanted to avoid the passions
of Apollo, she turned into the first laurel tree,
which Apollo then adopted as his sacred tree.
Wreaths were made from the leaves, which were
chewed and burned by Apollo's prophetic priestesses at Delphi.

It is not suggested, however, that you try chewing bay leaves,
as they are rather volatile, and the amount you would get from chewing
might be too much for those not trained in the use of visionary herbs.

Other gods include Aesclepius
(the god of healing and Apollo's son),
Ceres, and Cerridwen.


ACTIONS
CULINARY
CRITTERS
CAUTION
HISTORY
MAGIC


SOURCE(S)
'A Modern Herbal'
Full Moon Paradise
The Daily Guide

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