Herbs have a very big meaning in witchcraft since they have the most magickal correspondences (relations). Potions are really just teas. The only thing that makes a potion different from a tea is that it has a magickal intent and that a real potion is blessed with a ritual. Once you consume a potion you absorb the magickal properties of the herbs that the potion consist of...Now there are a lot of ways to use potions:
- Drinking (Allways be aware of alergies and toxins of the herbs)
- Bathing (again...alergies and toxins plus the chance of herbs reacting negativily to sunlight and other circumstances)
- Making vials
- Sprinkling or spilling
- Blessing
- Or give it to the earth or other plants for donation...
By drinking the potions or giving someone else to drink them, you are consuming the magickal properties of the herbs that the potions consists from and by that, enhancing the factors on the area that the herb is related to...example:
You make a potion that consisist of Sage and Roses...
Sage and roses correspond to cleansing and banishing so the potion would be for banishing and cleansing.
Now by drinking this potion, you are cleansing yourself and enhancing the ability to banish with the help of a ritual or a spell...
By making a potion and bathing in it, has the same effect then drinking it, since you're still absorbing it to your body through your skin. But by bathing you're actually doing a ritual you're not just simply drinking it. Bathing in a potion represents absorbing the magickal properties of the herbs in the potion with the help of the element water and therefore adding the power of the elements to your ritual. One of the most common mistakes that witches do with this is that they whipe themself with a towel afterwards....that is wrong because the skin absorbs far better when it can "breathe". When you're underwater the skin isn't absorbing much because it's not breathing so you have to dry naturally...wait and dry without whiping yourself or standing in front of a drier.
Making vials that contain potions is just like having a crystal.
But there's two things that sepparate vials from crystals...
First one is that the potion is made of herbs which still contain the energy of life...that energy is a very active and powerful factor in magick! It adds a very good "kick" to your spellwork and that is why herbs are so commonly used in witchcraft.
The other thing is that you can "costum" the magickal properties of the vial by adding the right herbs in the potion which the vial will contain...this comes in very handy when you just can't find that one crystal for one particular reason.
When you sprinkle the potion on a certain area or object, the potion will take effect that corresponds (relates) to the magickal properties of the herbs that you used in the potion on that area and that object...this method is most commonly used in blessing spells or rituals and enhancing spells and rituals.
Now when you spill the potion in a certain area with the intention to secretly make someone absorb it,
(whoever passes through the area that the potion was spilled in)
that person will of course absorb the properties not biologicaly, but spiritualy and the potion will take effect. Now this method is most commonly used with hexes and curses.
Blessing somone or something OR an area with a potion MUST come with the help of a ritual or a spell. Blessing is something that herbs alone will never do. Even when you're cleansing or banishing you need to have a ritual or a spell because that is how you determine that specific magickal property of the herb that needs to take place (herbs mostly have a big variety of magickal properties).
Now when you sprinkle the potion on someone, smething or an area, the potion will release it's magickal property into the area and the area where the potion was sprinkled will be blessed (with the help of a ritual/spell) with whatever correspondence (relation) the potion has and our intention.
When you make a potion and donate it to a plant or the earth, you are thaking them in a very special way. By sacrificing a part of yourself
(in that case the potion needs to contain a bodly fluid of you), and other plants. The potion will of course have a relation according to the herbs it consists from and can, but not necessairly be in relation to the plant or deity you are donating it to.
