Herbs that Start with the Letter B

The letter B carries energy of balance, beauty, and beginnings in motion. This symbolizes growth, protection, and nurturing of intentions. Just as these herbs start with B and have magical properties, the letter itself encourages clarity, grounding, and manifestation. This page lists herbs along with their magical uses, elemental, and planetary correspondences to support your spiritual and magical practices.

Correspondences for the Letter B

• Element: Water
• Planet: Moon, Venus
• Number: 2
• Color: blue, green, silver, white
• Energy: balance, beauty, beginnings, belief, blessing, bliss, boundary, bounty, brave, breakthrough, brilliance
• Keywords: clarity, duality, growth, intuition, manifestation, nurturing, protection, receptivity

An Asterisk (*) Denotes the herb is considered poisonous, toxic, or can cause skin irritations. Do Not Consume.

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Letter B

Baby Blue Eyes: (Nemphila menziesii) freedom from past pain, gentleness with self, healing of inner child, letting go, natural beauty, relationships, trust, wildness. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Bachelor Buttons: (Centaurea cyanus) love. Air, Saturn, Venus, Feminine.

Balm of Gilead Tears/Poplar Buds: (Populus balsamifera) burn to attract spirits, grief, healing, love, manifestation, mends broken heart, protection, stress relief. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Balmony: (Chelone glabra) associated with turtles/tortoise, patience, perseverance, steadfastness. Water, Saturn, Feminine.

Balsam Fir: (Abies balsamea) breaks negativity, change, insight, progress, strength. Air, Jupiter, Masculine.

Bamboo: (Bambusa spp.) hex breaking, luck, protection, wishes. Air, Mercury, Masculine.

Banana: (Musa x paradisiaca) fertility, overcome blockages or obstacles, potency, prosperity, spirituality, wealth. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Banyan: (Ficus benghalensis) happiness, luck. Earth, Jupiter, Masculine.

Baobab: (Adansonia digitata) community, grounding, life energy, longevity, protection, wisdom. Earth, Jupiter, Masculine.

Barberry: (Berberis vulgaris) atonement, cleansing, liberation, sorcery. Water, Mars, Masculine.

Barley: (Hordeum vulgare) harvests, healing, keeps evil at bay, letting go, love, protection. Earth, Venus, Feminine.

Basil: (Ocimum basilicum) astral projection, avoid arguments, exorcism, Imbolc, love, peace, protection, soothes tempers, sympathy, understanding, wealth. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Basswood/Linden: (Tilia cordata) community, compassion, friendship, healing, justice, love, peace, rejuvenation. Air, Jupiter, Venus, Feminine.

Bay Leaf/Bay Laurel: (Laurus nobilis) clairvoyance, dreams/visions, good fortune, healing, protection, psychic abilities, purification, repels negativity, strength, success, victory, wisdom. Fire, Sun, Masculine.

Bayberry: (Myrica cerifera) blessing, cleansing, good fortune, luck, money, prosperity, stress relief. Earth, Jupiter, Masculine.

Beans (General): (Phaseolus spp.) divination, fertility, prosperity, protection, wish magic. Air, Mercury, Masculine.

Bedstraw (Fragrant): (Galium odoratum) love, peace, protection from nightmares, relationships, sleep. Air, Venus, Feminine.

Bee Pollen: attraction, friendship, happiness, love, overcoming depression, strength. Air, Sun, Masculine.

Beech: (Fagus sylvatica) divination, happiness, inspiration, wishes. Air, Saturn, Feminine.

Beet: (Beta vulgaris) love, juice can be used as a substitute for blood in spells/rituals. Earth, Saturn, Feminine.

*Belladonna: (Atropa belladonna) adds energy, beauty, flying potions/ointment, forgetting the past, protection, sacred to Hecate. Water, Saturn, Feminine.

Benzoin Gum: (Styrax benzoin) astral projection, cleansing, concentration, confidence, promotes strength, prosperity, purification, remove blockages, strengthens effect of anything added to it, will power. Air, Sun, Masculine.

Bergamot: (Citrus bergamia) increases magic, luck, money, prosperity, protection, sleep, wealth. Fire, Mercury, Masculine.

Betel Nut: (Areca catechu) banishing, confidence, courage, protection, strength, vitality. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Birch: (Betula pendula) balance, connections with others and spirits, exorcism, harmony, protect from infertility, psychic opening, spirituality, Yule. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Bird of Paradise: (Strelitzia reginae) awareness/interconnectedness of life, connection to higher realms, insight, intuition, mathematics, protection, sacred geometry, walking between worlds. Fire, Sun, Masculine.

Bistort: (Bistorta officinalis) attracts wealth, clairvoyance, divination, fertility/conception, keeps out unwanted spirits, psychic abilities . Earth, Saturn, Feminine & Masculine.

Bittersweet: (Solanum dulcamara) love, protection, strength, success, uncrossing, warding. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

*Bitterwood: (Quassia amara) exorcism, hex-breaking, love, protection, purification. Fire, Mars, Mercury, Masculine.

Blackberry: (Rubus fruticosus agg.) afterlife, feminine energy, fertility, funerals, healing, money, moving on, protection, wealth. Water, Venus, Feminine.

*Black Cohosh: (Actaea racemosa/Cimicifuga racemosa) courage, drives evil away, love, potency, protection. Fire, Pluto, Masculine.

Black-Eyed Susan: (Rudbeckia hirta) cleansing, connecting with spirits, grounding, integration, mediumship, release. Earth, Sun, Feminine.

Black Haw: (Viburnum prunifolium) employment, gambling, luck, power, protection. Earth, Venus, Feminine.

*Black Locust: (Robinia pseudoacacia) endurance, perseverance, protection, strength, transformation. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Black Pepper: (Piper nigrum) banish negativity, clears mind, dispels evil, exorcism, protection from evil eye, inner strength. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Black Snakeroot: banishing negativity, courage, love, healing protection. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Blackthorn/Sloe: (Prunus spinosa) boundaries, defense, exorcism, intuition, overcoming adversity, protection, reduces negativity, Samhain, strength, warding. Earth, Water, Mars, Saturn, Masculine.

*Black Walnut: (Juglans nigra) banishment, blessing of the Gods, divine energy, protection, wishes. Air, Mercury, Masculine.

Bladderwrack/Kelp: (Fucus vesiculosus) attracts money, brings in customers to business, protection, psychic abilities, sea/wind spells, travel by water. Water, Moon, Feminine.

Bleeding Heart: (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) attracting love, beauty in pain, emotional availability, healing. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Blessed Thistle/Holy Thistle: (Cnicus benedictus) aids vitality, dispels evil, eliminates negativity, hex breaking, protection, purification, strength. Earth, Mars, Masculine. 

(Not to be confused with Thistle.)

*Bloodroot: (Sanguinaria canadensis) love, keeps out curses and evil spirits, protection, purification. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Blowball/Dandelion Seed Head: (Taraxacum officinale) divination, love, transformation, wishes. Air, Jupiter, Mercury, Masculine.

Bluebell: (Hyacinthoidea non-scripta) eases grief and sorrow, friendship, luck, truth. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Blueberry: (Vaccinum corymbosum) aura work, banishing, curses, keeps out evil, protection of children, Water, Venus, Feminine.

*Blue Flag: (Iris versicolor) divination, prosperity, protection, purification, self-expression. Water, Moon, Feminine.

Blue Violet: (Viola odorata) calms tempers, deep sleep, good fortune, inspiration, love, luck, lust, protection from evil. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Bodhi (Sacred Fig): (Ficus religiosa) enlightenment, manifestation, meditation, peace, protection, transcendence, wisdom. Air, Jupiter, Masculine.

Boneset: (Eupatorium perfoliatum) endurance, fever magic, healing, protection, strengthening body and spirit. Water, Saturn, Feminine.

Borage: (Borago officinalis) calming, courage, peace, self-love, strength, psychic abilities, raises one's spirits wards off evil. Air, Jupiter, Masculine.

Bougainvillea: (Bougainvillea glabra) beauty, cleansing, passion, radiance. Fire, Venus, Feminine.

*Boxwood: (Buxus sempervirens) banishment, boundaries, immortality, protection. Earth, Saturn, Masculine.

Bracken/Fern: (Pteridium aquilinum) invisibility, luck, protection, rain magic, shelter from spirits. Earth, Mercury, Masculine.

Brazil Nut: (Bertholletia excelsa) good luck in love. Earth, Mercury, Venus, Masculine.

*Brimstone/Sulfur Powder: destroys enemy's power over you, dispels evil, prevents hexes/curses, warding. Fire, Sun, Masculine.

Bromeliad: (Guzmania lingulata) adaptability, confidence, creativity, expression, vitality. Fire, Sun, Masculine.

Broom: (Cytisus scoparius) divination, protection, psychic abilities, purification, wind magic. Air, Mars, Masculine.

Bryony: (Bryonia alba) image magic, luck, money, power, prosperity. Fire, Mars, Masculine.

Buchu: (Agathosma betulina) clairvoyance, dreams, love, prophetic dreams, psychic abilities. Water, Moon, Feminine.

*Buckeye/Horse Chestnut: (Aesculus hippocastanum) divination, good luck, money, protection, wealth. Fire, Jupiter, Masculine.

*Buckthorn: (Rhamnus cathartica) clarity, exorcism, legal matters, prosperity, protection, success, wishes. Earth, Saturn, Feminine.

Buckwheat: (Fagopyrum esculentum) fasting, money, protection, treasure/riches, wealth. Earth, Venus, Feminine.

Burdock/Beggar's Buttons: (Arctium lappa) cleansing, healing, persistence, protection, warding. Water, Venus, Feminine.

Butternut/White Walnut: (Juglans cinerea) clarity, grounding, healing, prosperity, protection, wisdom. Earth, Jupiter, Masculine.

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Disclaimer: 

Certain herbs and spices may be toxic, allergenic, or harmful if ingested, inhaled, or applied to the skin. Always research an herb’s safety and potential effects before use. Do not consume, burn, or apply any herbs unless you are certain they are safe for your intended purpose. 

Herbs that are known to be poisonous or toxic are marked with an asterisk (*). We make every effort to identify and label known toxic herbs, but this is not a guarantee that every dangerous herb is marked.

The author of this collection does not provide medical advice or recommend any practices as a replacement for professional medical treatment of physical, emotional, or psychological conditions, either directly or indirectly. The intent of this resource is to offer general information to support your journey toward enhanced emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. If you choose to apply any information from these materials, the author and publisher assume no responsibility for your decisions or actions.