Powers: Beauty, Healing, Psychic Powers, Protections Magical Uses: Carry to improve or attain beauty, add to bath or the same. Add to healing incense. Also carried for spiritual strenght, increase psychic powers and protection. Health: Used in treating coughs, colds, asthma, pleurisy, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. Tea must be steeped for atlease 30 minuites. 1 teaspoon dried herb per cup of water Yerba santa is a warm and pungent herb that is both astringent and stimulant. A study published in 1951 in the journal Archives of Biochemistry notes that the resins are mildly antibacterial. Most of the nations supply of Yerba Santa comes from California with most stands existing in the Sierra Nevada mountain chain and parts of southern California. Precautions Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or in persons with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established For educational purposes only This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.