Hops is a plant and an herb.

• botanical information
• part used
• magick correspondences and uses

botanical information:

    Botanical name: Humulus lupulus

    Common name: hops

    Use the botanical name when ordering seeds (bulbs, etc.) or when looking up information in the library. Common names vary by nation, culture, and region, and sometimes the same common name is applied to different plants.

part used:

Part Used: The cone and grains of the hops flower, dried and cut. Information courtesy of Mountain Rose Herbs

magickal correspondences and uses:

    Magickal substitutions: Rosemary usually may be safely substituted for any herb in magick spells and rituals. Roses may safely be substituted for any flower.

Magical Uses Used in dream pillows to produce deep sleep with dreams emphasizing health concerns. Wonderful in healing sachets and incenses. A pillow of the dried green to gold “fruit” like buds, helps bring on sleep. String a bunch of the fresh buds and hang in bedroom of sick person, for improvement in health. Healing, Sleep information courtesy of

Some herbs may be poisonious under some conditions. Exercise appropriate care.

    Wild gathering: Avoid wild gathering. Some plants are endangered species. Some plants can be toxic just by touch. Even experts can make deadly misidentifications of wild plants. Please grow your own herbs in your own goddess garden (or window boxes).

    Organic Labels: The Bush administration’s USDA has announced that they will help large American food corporations increase their profits by purposely deceiving the American public by putting non-organic foods into foods labelled as being organic. Under U.S. law, for foods to labelled as organic, crops must be grown without chemical fertilizers, sewage sludge, bioengineering, or pesticides and animals must be raised without antibiotics and growth hormones and given access to the outdoors. The USDA has decided that 43 non-organic ingredeients can be added to foods labelled as organic. To protest this decision, go to Organic Consumers Association. One of the non-organic ingredients is hops.

See also: herbs.

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