Damiana Leaf cut (Turnera diffusa)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Lust sachet: blend with rose petals and a little cinnamon and carry it, or tuck it under the mattress.
• Visions: burn damiana as incense before divination or meditation to open the inner sight.
• Dream blend: add a pinch to a dream pillow alongside mugwort.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Lust and love: damiana is used in lust-drawing mixtures and mojo bags to heat up a partner’s desire.
• Candle dressing: the crumbled leaf is rolled onto dressed red candles in passion work.

A Simple Working

• Set out a red candle, a teaspoon of damiana and a few drops of olive oil.
• Carve your name and your partner’s name into the candle, one on each side.
• Anoint the candle with the oil from the base up toward the wick.
• Roll it in crumbled damiana.
• Light it in the bedroom and speak your desire plainly.
• Let it burn down completely, then keep any leftover herb under the mattress.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, for love alongside lust.
• Cinnamon, for heat and speed.
• A red candle, for passion workings.
• Mugwort, when using damiana for dreams and vision.

What You Receive

Cut and dried damiana leaf, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Turnera diffusa is a small aromatic shrub of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Its leaves have long been brewed as a tea and made into a sweet liqueur, and it has carried a reputation as an aphrodisiac since at least the nineteenth century.

Mexican legend holds that a liqueur made from damiana went into the very first margarita.

Damiana liqueur is sold in Mexico in a bottle shaped like a woman’s figure, a nod to the herb’s long association with desire. In the late nineteenth century it was marketed in the United States under the name Turnera aphrodisiaca.