Segulah

1. Feathers from wild birds are a segulah for healing sicknesses of the lungs, and are conducive to strengthening the breath of life.

2. The heavens have changes in their appearance according to the appearance of the grasses that grow by them, and it is effective to gaze on them.

3. Rainwater is a segulah for an impotent male.

4. Recital of Tehillim (Psalms) is a segulah for rainfall. [The letters of the word] Tehillim [are the acronym for the Biblical phrase] - "According to the Rains of the Heavens, You will drink Water."

5. A segulah for renewing a woman's monthly cycle is to host guests.

6. Someone whose hair is unnaturally abundant, is liable to much damage and bad calamities from the Other Side. A segulah against this is reciting the section (of the Torah reading) that is read on Yom Kippur.

7. Someone who becomes mute suddenly and unexpectedly, should pass a kosher butcher's knife over his mouth.

8. A segulah for a woman having difficulty giving birth is to hang the key to the cemetery upon her neck. Also, this key is a segulah for a barren woman.

9. It is a segulah for one suffering illness in the neck, to weep over the destruction of the Temple.

10. Upon entering a new house in which to live, it is a segulah to bring in a sword, knife or other weapon. An indication for this (from Scripture): "Through wisdom a house is built" (Proverbs 24:3), the letters of "wisdom" (ChuChMah) stand for "Weapons (Clee) of Violence (Chummus) they practice where they Reside (Michairoasayhem) (Bereshit 49:5)". Their swords, their residence (the Hebrew word in the verse which was translated as “their residence” can be alternately translated: "their swords" (in which case the “weapons of violence” would be translated as, stolen weapons, see Rashi there)). [t.n. Thus a connection between weapons and the maintaining of residence can be established].

11. Apples are a segulah for one who has difficulties in childbirth.

12. It is beneficial (a segula) for a sick person to look upon the tzitzis (fringes). [This secret is (found) in the verse (Beraishis 48:2), “behold, your son Yosef has come to see you.” For all these words allude to the tzitzis; i.e. to the number of the strings, and the chulyos (stitches), and the knots, as is explained in Pri Eitz Chaim (Fruit of the Tree of Life – a Kabalistic work of the Arizal) see there, and through this (the end of the verse), “and Israel strengthened himself”}. See also LM I:7.

13. It is beneficial for an epileptic, to distribute money to charity.

14. It is beneficial (a segula) for a woman having difficulty giving birth, for her to wash with wine, her front and her back; 'when wine enters, secrets come out.' (Eruvin 65a)