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                                    ³Borage³
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    (Borago officinalis). This herb contains much potassium and is used as
    a demulcent, emollient, diuretic*, and diaphoretic. It grows in Europe,
    and the United States - a pretty annual that reaches a height of 1 to 3
    feet in height. Its round stems are branched, hollow, and full of juice;
    its pointed oval leaves are dark or gray-green and wrinkled. The entire
    plant is covered with a bristly silvery-gray down, and its blue star
    shaped flowers hang in leafy clusters from the end of the stems. It does
    well in poor soil in either sun or shade with medium watering and will
    seed itself as well, although it can be grown from clippings.

       The seeds and leaves have been used to increase milk in mothers, to
    expel pensiveness and melancholy, to reduce fevers*, and to treat lung
    problems. The fresh herb is made into an eyewash for inflammation and
    redness and into a poultice* for all other sorts of inflammations. The
    fresh flowers are used in salads and impart a cucumber-like flavor.
    The ashes of the herb are boiled in mead and used as a gargle for sore
    throats. In France, a tisane (an infusion of the flowers) is used for
    feverish colds.

       In magic a tea of this is said to aid psychic awareness an ability.

    [In some persons, Borage taken internally may cause an allergic reaction]