Green Witchcraft Wellness: Healing Remedies From the Wild

Green Witchcraft Wellness: Healing Remedies From the Wild is about wildcrafting plant medicine in Mother Nature with Plants By Laurali! Part of being a witch is learning to craft natural remedies from the forest. Today, I will share my exploration into the world of becoming a wellness witch.

I’ve always practiced witchy wellness. Back then, it might have been less spiritual and more about looking and feeling good. Today, I practice holistic health and wellness from a witchy point-of-view.

What does that mean? It means anytime I spend time in nature, practice yoga witchcraft, or eat a healthy green kitchen witch meal, I practice from the heart. I practice health and wellness with intention and purpose.

One of my favorite places to practice wellness is out in the heart of Mother Nature. When I’m in the wild, the earth’s natural resources are at my fingertips. Out there, I can practice wildcrafting, foraging, and grounding my energy.

In the forest, I can collect plant allies, pine needles, and mushrooms, and work with Goddess Hekate to create a Hekate mushroom key. Everything I could ever need is in the butterfly garden, the hiking trails, and grows near waterways, and blooms in meadows.

Being a green witch is all about using what you have on hand. Everything that grows in my garden or the wild has a use and value to me.

Green witch wellness is all about creating plant medicine, and natural remedies, and using natural landscapes and surroundings to heal the body, mind, and soul. Here, the witch finds healing, happiness, and calm within. It is here she has everything she needs and more.

Green Witchcraft Wellness: Healing Remedies From the Wild

Whenever I feel down or anxious, I turn to the woodland for the answers. The trees, forest, and animal witchcraft spirits whisper to me. They tell me which plants to use in my herbal remedies. They give me permission to identify, gather, and collect for further medicinal research.

Lately, I’ve been working on a few different remedies. One is for calming anxiety, one is for creating an herbal poultice for anti-itching, and the third is for keeping the mosquitoes off of me. All of these healing remedies can be naturally found in nature.

I’ll go deeper into each herbal remedy as we go along, but please know that healing people is something that I’ve been doing since I was a little girl. Shamanism runs through my veins straight down the line into the magic of ancestors. I’ve always been able to heal people using my mind and flower witchcraft.

As I grew older, I found that being a wellness witch starts within. Being gifted with healing abilities often eludes the self. For me, I found comfort in natural, whole foods and exercise. I found healing through forest bathing, earthing, and grounding my energy into warm cinnamon and nutmeg.

Witchy wellness always starts within. Once you master the self, you can use herbalism, energy healing, and food medicine to heal other people, too. It all starts with spending time in nature, where everything tumbles wild and free. That’s where you’ll find your medicine.

Calming Anxiety Nature Walk

Not every natural remedy comes from herbs. Sometimes, we need to surround ourselves with the greenery of Mother Earth. Here, you’ll find flowers, plants, mushrooms, trees, and dirt, as well as mountains, meadows, forests, deserts, and natural waterfalls.

With the calming anxiety nature walk, there’s no need to ingest or absorb any herbs. With this healing remedy, you’ll absorb the natural beauty and wonders of the natural landscape of your local park or region.

As a plant witch, you’ll walk the trails and hike at whatever pace feels good to you. I usually take my time and walk at a normal pace for my weight and height. This might be a good time to try the hiking pretty spell!

This is different than forest bathing or earthing, though it holds many of the same mental and physical health benefits. You’ll be grounding your energy and vibe with the earth as you walk the forest floor.

During this exercise, you’ll want to absorb the energy of the earth and take it all in. Take in the views of the natural landscapes. Spend time touching trees and placing your hand on the dirt to connect with the earth’s healing energies.

It’s important to let the nature spirits take your anxiety from you and absorb it into its rich soil and plant life. During this time, feel free to let your mind wander, and come back into focus.

Whenever your mind begins to drift, turn back to the sights and sounds of nature. Keep taking it all in and absorbing the healing herbal remedy of spending time in nature.

By the time you leave, you will feel a sense of calm and peacefulness wash over you. For today at least, your anxiety will disappear into the ether of nature, taking it far into its reaches for further healing.

Aloe Vera and Wild Yarrow Anti-Itch Poultice

To create aloe vera and wild yarrow poultice for anti-itching, you’ll need to head into the forest and collect yarrow. Aloe vera is a common household plant, especially in Florida where I live.

Aloe can be used topically for treating bug bites, sunburns, and skin rashes. Wild yarrow can be used medicinally as an anti-inflammatory for treating itchy skin and rashes. These two herbs pair perfectly and make a great healing plant medicine team!

To make the poultice, you can use a medium to large bandaid and add your herbs to it. First, you’ll want to slice open an aloe vera plant blade and add the gooey insides to a mortar and pestle. Here, you’ll mix it with the wild yarrow that you wildcrafted for summer.

Take the paste you made and add a little to the bandaid. Then, add the bandaid to the itchy spot. Be sure to use a hearty bandaid that stays in place!

Keep the additional paste in the fridge and use it as needed! During summer witchcraft, there are a lot of itchy bugs and plants in the yard and the wild. The aloe vera and wild yarrow anti-itch poultice will help with that!

Mint Leaf and Lavender Bug Repellant Spray

To create the mint leaf and lavender bug repellant spray, you’ll want to head into the forest and use a plant identifier app to collect wild mint leaves. You’d be surprised by the copious supply of mint leaves on the trails of Florida!

You can use lavender from the garden to create this bug-repellant! You are going to add mint leaves and lavender to a spray bottle with 70% isopropyl alcohol. Do not water it down!

The ratio should be two handfuls of mint leaves and an entire bundle of lavenders without the stem. Be generous with the herbs so that the combination of alcohol and herbs will keep bugs at bay.

Use this spray as often as you like! This is one of my personal favorites for summer, as this is the time of year when all of the itchy stuff comes out.

Spending Time in Nature

Just the mere act of spending time in nature is a healing remedy! This is the place where you can wildcraft, forage, and ground your way to healing your body, mind, and soul.

Whenever someone is sick, I turn to botanicals in the wild. Whenever I feel depressed, I turn to the creature comforts of Mother Nature and go within.

Lately, more and more, I find myself going deeper into nature. The deeper into nature I go, the more it reveals its secrets to me. Secrets of ancient times and plant witch grimoires.

When this happens, I know it is my witchy intuition listening to my body. It knows the way to take, the plants to use, and the trails I must go on to find my way to my next plant remedy. I can’t wait to see where it takes me next.