Potion making

My mom has this great story about a time when I was three and she had pneumonia. The pneumonia part was not so great but my three year old self was pretty clever and creative if I do say so myself.
 
The story goes that my mom was really sick and in bed feeling miserable when she began to smell an odd scent. She couldn’t quite identify it but knew she needed to get up and see what was going on. 

She found me in the kitchen with a big bowl with all the spices in the cupboard dumped into it. I was making a potion and I was very excited about it!

Of course this potion wasn’t really good for much outside of all the things it could do in my imagination and it took my mom literally years to replace the spices I had used. Clearly my mom was not the winner in this story.

Yet I love this story because it is a little moment in time where my small self stepped into the realm of connecting with plants as magic. 

As an adult,  plant magic is still something I connect with, in my yard, my medicine cabinet and most often in the kitchen. 

The simplest way I do this is through the teas I drink every day. You can find these potions pre blended for you at the market. Traditional  medicinals and Yogi tea both make great blends. You can also check out the blends at Tea and Tarot (they make fabulous tisanes and are out of Connecticut but ship in the US) 

If you want to get a little more involved in the potion making process though, it can be really fun to make your own herbal tea blends.  Be sure to use herbs that you know are safe to ingest. And example might be turmeric and ginger, or peppermint and lavender. You can keep it simple or get creative. The possibilities are endless!