Learn how to use different herbs for emotional healing and improving your self-care practices, according to holistic experts.

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Lavender, for example, can work for love, healing, protection, and cleansing rituals.

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What are the best herbs for emotional healing?

While the scent can bestimulating for memoryandfor making really boss focaccia, the herb offers other emotional healing properties.

Tired of,well, feeling tired and overwhelmed?

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Reaching for the right herbs can help reinvigorate your body and mind.

Chamomile is one of the best herbs for friendship, luck, money and healing, says Sands.

It is also great for relaxing, and soothing frazzled nerves.

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If your body and mind feel physically off, one herb reigns supreme.

Peppermint

Peppermint is freshly aromatic and can provide a jolt if your vibes feel extremely off.

Peppermint is an uplifting, energetic plant that stimulates physical healing in magic, says Sands.

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What herb helps with trauma?

One herb is particularly beneficial at doing just that.

you might make roses into a tincture to heal any trauma or nervous energy, says Sands.

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What herbs are used for cleansing?

Maybe your brain feels bogged down by negative thoughts or perhaps your environment feels muddled by bad vibes.

Whatever the case may be, cleansing herbs can help.

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Thats great, but also be sure to fact-checkwhereyou get your sage, and what sage you get.

When you use sage in rituals, verify you are using common garden sage, Sands says.

White sage is an at-risk plant thats being over-harvested in the wild.

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Substitute culinary sage in any cleansing work that you might typically use white sage for.

Lavender can be used in love oils, powders, and in ritual baths as well, she says.

And keep in mind: Most herbs have more than one benefit, Farragher says.

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