Salvation in a Teacup

MC — while poking around the Catalan witchcraft files at Wikipedia — uncovered this luscious recipe for deliverance:

"On the peak of Pedraforca, witches were said to gather and to sing:

Alfàbrega i valeriana,
menta i ruda
salven tota criatura
Ruda i valeriana
menta i alfàbrega,
tot ho cura i tot ho salva.
Menta i alfàbrega,
ruda i valeriana
salven tota persona nada.
Ruda i Valeriana,
alfàbrega i sàlvia
tot el món salven.

Basil and valerian,
Mint and rue
Save all creation
Rue and valerian,
Mint and basil
Cure all and save all
Mint and basil
Rue and valerian
Save every person born
Rue and valerian
Basil and sage
Save the whole world

Their master, a goat, was said to leap and dance in the middle of
the circle, and to answer as a refrain to each verse:

Més val l'orella d'ós / que ho cura i salva tot.
The borage leaf is worth more / which cures and saves all."

Valerian and mint act as sedatives, basil is just joyous (to my mind) and it may interest you to know that rue once symbolized "grace, repentance and memory."

Peace, joy, grace, repentance and memory... key components in curing all that ails.

I'd always suspected that herbs might comprise the salve in salvation.