Borage has long had a reputation for creating a lovely, gentle euphoria and it is now understood that it does, indeed, stimulate adrenaline and combat depression. As a potion, this borage drink would be the best choice to encourage a relationship that is flagging or to push an attraction on the next stage.

juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons honey
2 -3 borage leaves
a few borage flowers or 2 teaspoons borage tea
2 cups white wine with a high alcohol content (about 13%)

First make a homemade lemonade by adding the lemon juice and honey to 2 cups boiling water, dissolving well and chilling in the refrigerator. To this chilled mixture, add the leaves and flowers (or tea), and chill for another hour. An hour before you require the potion, mix the borage lemonade with the strong wine in a carafe and leave to blend and steep in the refrigerator. Strain out the borage leaves but replace the flower and serve in bluish glasses.

The aesthetics and potency will be enhanced if you create some borage ice cubes to float in the glasses. Fill an ice-cube tray with water and put a flower in each compartment. Freeze. These will keep for some time after the borage flowers cease to bloom in late fall.

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