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Culinary | |
Identification and Cultivation |
| Medicinal | |
Culinary | |
Identification and Cultivation |
| Magickal |
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Burdock | |
| Arctium lappa |
| Other Names: | Bardana, Beggar's Buttons, Burr, Burr Seed, Burrseed, Clot Bur, Clod-bur, Clot-bur, Clotbur, Clotburr, Clothburr, Cocklebur, Cockleburr, Cockle Buttons, Cockle-Button, Fox's Clote, Grass Burdock, Great Burdock, Greater Burdock, Happy Major, Happy-major, Hardock, Harebur, Hareburr, Hare-Lock, Hurrburr, Lappa, Lappa Minor, Loppy-major, Lopuh, Love Leaves, Niu Bang Zi, Personata, Philanthropium, Repeinik, Thorny Burr, Touch-me-not, Turkey Burrseed, Turkey-Bur |
| Parts Used: | Burrs (both ripe and unripe), Juice (of leaves), Leaves, Roots, Seeds, Stems |
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Astrology: | Planet: | Venus |
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| Sign: | Energy: | Cold; Bitter, Pungent | |||||
| House: | Element: | Water, Earth | |||||
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Protection, Purification |
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| Uses: | -Protects
against negativity -Roots (dried and carved) worn as necklace or in amulet protect against magic. -Any protection spell, sachet, amulet, incense, device -Roots (harvested in Waning Moon, dried, cut into bead-sized pieces, strung on red string) worn to ward off negativity and evil -Healing: Leaves on soles of feet heal gout. |
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| Incense: | -Scent:
Bitter, Subtle, and Tart -Protection against negativity and evil. -Animals -Compassion -Consecration -Exorcism -Love -Protection -Spell-breaking |
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| Note: This Bibliography is for the Magickal references ONLY. Information such as "other names" and "parts used" was found in these books AND some of the books listed on the medicinal version of this page. |
| Culpeper, Nicholas and Pottern, David (editor), Culpeper's Color Herbal, New York, NY: Sterling, 1983. |
| Culpeper, Nicholas, Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician, Enlarged, Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1990. |
| Cunningham, Scott, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1999. |
| Cunningham, Scott, Magical Herbalism, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1983. |
| Smith, Steven R., (Wylundt), Wylundt's Book of Incense, York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1989. |
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