Mandragora magical properties / mandragora esoteric properties Mandragora is a plant that has a long history and symbolism within the esoteric world and even has healing properties, but must be managed with care.
The mandrake belongs to the nightshade family and lives in cleared wooded areas, abandoned meadows, stony places and semi-shady places. It is native to southern Europe and the Levant Mediterranean, and its natural range includes India (the Hlmalayas) and China. Today it is grown throughout the world in frost-free gardens.
The mandragora is a hardy, self-fertilizing perennial plant that reaches a height of between four and thirty centimeters, with large dark green, foul-smelling leaves growing from its rosette crown.
The flowers sprout from the center and each stem gives rise to a purple, blue or greenish-white hermaphrodite flower that is pollinated by insects. The fruits, orange or red, smooth, globular and fleshy, are the size of a plum, contain seeds and have a strong apple aroma when ripe.
The most famous thing about the mandragora is its long, brown, turnip-like roots that sink deep into the ground and can be single or divided into two or three branches.
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Composition of the mandrake
Mandrake contains approximately 0.4% alkaloids (atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine), which make this plant toxic in high doses (like belladonna), as well as many other secondary substances.
Among the three main principles of mandrake, we find hyoscyamine (slow metabolism, slow intestinal transit, dilation of the pupils), as well as atropine (medium dose, induces atropine: muscle relaxation, dilated pupils, visual disturbances, acceleration of the heart rate, and in a high dose, it is stimulating, increases excitement and delusions, then paralysis).
It also has the powerful scopolamine (considered a powerful truth serum, narcotic, causes a deep sleep sometimes preceded by erotic dreams, hallucinations, the feeling of being connected to another world (high doses, intoxication with this substance is fatal), a few micrograms enough to see its action enabled.
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healing properties
The potency of M. officinalis was already known to Dioscorides, Plinlo, Josephus, Galen, and Saint Isidore, and it has a long history of medical use as an emetic, hallucinogen, and narcotic. The plant alone or in alcoholic infusion was used as an anesthetic in primitive surgery. However, its roots contain poisonous alkaloids, such as atropine and hyoscine, which greatly impede its use in modern herbology.
Today it is used homeopathically to relieve cough and asthma; One of its components, hyoscine, is part of the normal preoperative medication to relieve and reduce bronchial secretions. Long ago it was considered to excite delirium and madness, but it is now believed that it calms excitability and can help those with epilepsy.
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Mandragora esoteric properties
Mandrake can have a very good synergy with Rhodiola, St. John’s Wort and Griffonia simplicifolia (stress, deep depression, depression), Tribulus and Maca (Aphrodisiac, libido, energy, vitality), as well as synergy with Cannabis (anti-major pain, anesthetic, insomnia, depression) can be very interesting for experts.
Mandragora can also be associated with Harpagophytum (major anti-inflammatory, joint pain, muscle pain, tendonitis…), but also Curcuma + Gingembre + Poivre black (major anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle and joint pain, participate in the prevention of cancers, digestive problems… ).
This plant is more rarely combined with ayahuasca (new perceptions of the world, getting out of the body, communication with spirits, trance, plant native to Peru used by shamans during their sacred rites), poppy or even belladonna (a plant for hallucinogens close to mandrake, also toxic exceeded a certain dose).
For strength and vitality, the mandrake would have an excellent synergy with Ginseng and Gelée (energy, strength, resistance, vitality). Attention! In general, before trying a synergy of Mandragora officinale with other medicinal plants, start by knowing the properties and effects of each plant separately. Let’s see, next, the mandragora magical properties.
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Mandragora magical properties
Mandragora magical properties The shape of the root distantly resembles a human being and is imbued with ancient mysticism, magic and superstition. Ancient Egyptian priests combined it with other psychoactive drugs for astral travel.
The Greeks called Aphrodite «Lady of the Mandrake». Homer tells in his Odyssey that Circe was able to retain Ulysses thanks to this plant,
Biblical Hebrews used it to combat infertility (Genesis 30:14), and the fruit’s aphrodisiac aroma is mentioned in Solomon’s Song of Songs (Song 7:13), and as the Arabic luffáh or beideljinn («the eggs of the jinn») it assured conception.
In the year 200 BC. the Carthaginians used it as an ancient form of biological warfare. They left wine laced with mandrake for the Roman invaders to drink, which left them insensible. Then the Carthaginians killed them.
Flavio Josefo speaks of it in his Judaic Antiquities, in the 1st century, and mentions its usefulness as an aphrodisiac, recalling that in Egypt it symbolized love. In the western medieval tradition, it was believed that the most effective mandrakes were those born at the foot of the scaffold or the gallows, attributing their freshness and strength to having been fertilized by the semen of the prisoner’s last ejaculation.
Niccolò Machiavelli echoes this belief at the beginning of the 16th century in La Mandragora; also Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Regarding how it should be pulled out, the unanimous opinion was that it should be done on a full moon and not by human hands: the mouth of a black dog should give the last stretch to pull it out.
The shamans of black Africa used it to harm, while in Renaissance Europe it was the key to open the virtue of women —her sex— like any lock. The owner of it could acquire riches and honors, and even prolong life. Even today in Santander the legend of the «tentirujo» persists, a minor demon that uses this plant to possess the girls. It is a term related to the idea of love. To this «apple of love», as it is also called, the classics attributed a host of powers, many of them positive.
The Christian Middle Ages did not see it with good eyes and it was related to the devil, who was said to go to the spell of whoever named him if he carried a mandrake root talisman; in fact, before going to covens, witches drank a concoction made up of mandragora root, cantharidae powder, Indian hemp, belladonna extract, hemlock, opium, a pinch of hashish, and henbane leaves and nightshade, macerating everything which was placed in a bain-marie for three hours and drank in a tisane that triggered his horniness.
But it also had positive uses: put a mandrake root where there are fights, they stop; expels evil spirits from places or houses where they have become strong. There is a belief that when the mandrake root is uprooted it emits a complaining noise. Doing so implied danger: the normal thing was to tie the stem to the tail of a dog so that it would be the animal who pulled it up; if man does it he shortens his own life.
In the Renaissance the old superstition regained new life. It was believed that whoever found an authentic mandrake and left a root between two sheets of paper would be rich. Its oil was also used to weld broken bones. Notwithstanding this, Andrés Laguna, physician to Carlos V, wrote in 1555: «The mandrake mainly offends the brain, temple and domicile of the soul».
Today modern neopagan magic (Wicca and Odinism) still use mandrake root.
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