Transform your life with authentic day-to-day plant magic used in the rituals of Umbanda and Candomblé — Brazilian religions based on African gods of nature called Orishas and practiced all over South America. Sacred Leaves compiles three volumes on this Afro-Brazilian witchcraft into one updated edition, making their contents available in English for the first time. With this comprehensive guide, you can begin safely working with a variety of magical herbs for spiritual cleansing, prosperity, harmony, love, and more.

Diego de Oxóssi teaches you how to identify plants through their physical and magical characteristics, harvest botanical ingredients, awaken their sacred power with spoken enchantments, and create your own herbal spells. Then, you will explore a variety of ways to use plant energies, including potions, powders, aromatherapy, baths, cookery, and other healing tools. With its collection of more than three hundred plant profiles and various hands-on activities, Sacred Leaves will help you build a life filled with magic and success.

In the first part of the book you´ll learn how to easily identify and classify the leaves and their power of action, how to combine them to create your own magic recipes and how to wake up their sacred power. In addition, the author goes through various magical traditions around the world, adding the ancestral knowledge of Candomblé to the universal practices of using the magic of leaves and the awakening of their sacred power.

Also, you will find a manual to transform your life and the small acts of routine into rituals full of power and enchantment. Learn tricks and tips on how to handle the herbs and sacred plants in your home, how to dry them the right way even on cold weather or humid days, how to protect your home from negative energies with small pots and vegetable arrangements and much more!

In the secod part, you´ll learn that each root, each leaf, flower or seed carries within itself a universe of energies that can be awakened and used in rituals so you can enjoy the magic of nature and transform the reality around you! It is one of the largest magical dictionary of herbs in thw world: 365 different plants classified by their magical powers and their regent Orisha, organized in 5 thematic axes: cleaning, defense and spiritual discharge; opening of paths; prosperity; harmonization; and love and attraction.