I do not believe divination exists solely as a tool for self development. It can be used that way, but reducing it to that is like using a plumbed kitchen sink to store water you carry in from outside. At its best, divination is communication with forces, entities, intelligences, or spirits that are not you or the very least are your higher, divine self.

Medicinal Sachets and Herbal Pouches in Folk Belief and Custom Across Europe, the Mediterranean, and parts of Asia, small fabric bags filled with herbs, resins, or aromatic substances were a common feature of vernacular medicine, domestic hygiene, and protective folk practice . These objects were not primarily symbolic in the modern sense, but functional items grounded in humoral theory, miasma avoidance, and inherited empirical knowledge . They were carried on the body, plac

Sweetened and fermented herbal preparations occupy a central place in pre-modern medicine , where taste, preservation, and the regulation of bodily qualities were considered essential to effective treatment. Long before the isolation of active compounds, healers relied on vehicles (honey, wine, vinegar, and syrups) to carry herbal virtue into the body in forms that were stable, digestible, and therapeutically appropriate. These preparations were not conceived as supplements