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.