It's debated whether Traditional Chinese Medicine counts as witchcraft but living in Singapore I've found that Chinese/Chinese-descended witches will say yes but TCM users and practitioners just look at you confused. haha. But I guess in a way it is a form of spirituality.
My recipe:
- sprinkle of moonwater (for bringing in "clean" energy)
- 9 chinese wolfberries (aka goji berries)
- 3 teaspoons of ginseng root (roughly)
- jasmine green tea
The goji berries and ginseng fight fatigue and the green tea brings brain-power energy and peace of mind (since jasmine here is often associated to relaxation rather than love). I used to use oolong tea instead of green tea however the bitter flavour can get quite intense.
These ingredients were common and easy for me to get in Singapore because most people here are Chinese-descended and or spiritual but for those of you in the west you can visit any Chinese medicine shop and find goji berries and ginseng. Ginseng can be expensive but you don't need to spend that much money on decent ginseng. Blessed be!
Sounds lovely! How do you go about crafting your moon water? Is it for a particular phase of the moon?
I have heard of different ways of making moon water but my personal way is either on the full moon or the new moon filling a clear vessel of some sort( i usually use mason jars) with purified water and setting it under the moonlight. I always make sure to bring the water in before sun rise and store the moon water in a place where sunlight can not reach it. I hope that makes sense and helps!
It can be in either the new moon or on a full moon whatever you like tk work with ,but take my words with a pinch of salt.
I live on a roughly spherical chunk of rock that spins on its axis at about 1000 miles per hour, but it's not a perfect sphere so it wobbles on its axis; while all that spinning and wobbling is going on, it's careening around the nearest celestial thermonuclear furnace at about 67,000 miles per hour... and yet an invisible force prevents me from being flung off into space. Yeah, we have a name for it, we can measure it, and we can even make secondhand use of it... but why does that mean it's not magick? :-)
I'll admit that there are portions of TCM that I react to simply by shaking my head sadly and walking away, but a great deal is based on centuries of experimenting with herbs & other substances and keeping records of the results. If someone bristles at it being called "magick" then fine, I'll just call it TCM, no big deal...