Motherwort cut

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Mother and child: hang a small bag in the nursery or the parents’ room to guard mother and child.
• Courage: carry it in a sachet to steady the heart before a confrontation or a hard day.
• Family peace: add to a household sachet or floor wash to calm the home.

A Simple Working

• Gather motherwort, rosemary, a white chime candle and a small white cloth bag.
• Light the candle and name each member of the family.
• Mix the herbs with your hands and fill the bag.
• Tie it closed with three knots, speaking protection over the household.
• Hang it in the kitchen or near the family’s main bedroom.
• Refresh it once a year.

Pairs Well With

• Rosemary: for family protection.
• Lemon balm: another herb for lifting the heart.
• Angelica root: a guardian root for the home.
• Rose petals: softens and sweetens family work.
• White chime candle: for blessing and protection.

What You Receive

Cut dried motherwort herb, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Leonurus cardiaca is a tall, prickly mint-family perennial from Europe and central Asia, with deeply lobed leaves likened to a lion’s tail.

As the name suggests, it was traditionally used in women’s remedies, and also for an anxious, racing heart.

“Drink motherwort and live to be a source of continuous astonishment and grief to waiting heirs,” runs an old English saying about its reputation for long life.

The seventeenth-century astrological herbal of Culpeper wrote that “Venus owns this herb, and it is under Leo”, and praised it for driving melancholy from the heart and making a “merry, cheerful, blithe soul”.

The genus name Leonurus means lion’s tail.