Name: LOBELIA spp.
Toxicity: narcotic
Common Name: Bladderpod
Continent: North Temperate Zone
Habitat: acidic range
Applicable Plant Components: root, herb, flower
Sanctificational: herb
Convocational: root
Intensificational: herb
Psychical: herb
Desistant: herb
Pacificatory: herb
Reconciliatory: herb
Theurgical: root
Amoristic: root, herb, flower
Preserval: root, herb
Vulnerary: root, herb
Sanguinary: root, herb
Plenitudinal: root, herb
Ecstatic: root, herb
Divinatory: root
Affirmational: herb
Resurgent: herb, root, flower
Anecdotal: Lobelia is tied to the weather. Smoke is handled to ward off storms while flowers are entreated to conjure rain. The flowers are also used to enchant baskets with power. Lobelia is believed capable of removing the undesired bewitchment of love medicine. And yet as a love charm it is entreated to end quarrels between loved ones. Lobelia is both a divining agent and an exorcismal medicine regarding malevolent spirits. The spirit within Lobelia is invoked to address spiritual pain that has led to apprehension and the attrition or loss of spiritual energy. The resulting endopsychic wounds, often genetous in nature, impair expression and personal shields of protection as well as a sense of peacefulness. The unique spirit of Lobelia apparently makes it an appropriate offering at burial sites perhaps because of its loving, peaceful and peacemaking properties.