Name: Buxus sempervirens
Toxicity: considered toxic
Common Name: Box
Continent: Eurasia
Habitat: IV
Applicable Plant Components: herb, wood
Sanctificational: herb, wood
Pacificatory: wood
Reconciliatory: wood
Theurgical: herb
Transmutational: herb
Soporific: wood
Ecstatic: wood
Anecdotal: Buxus, the hardest European wood, is used to make flutes, boxes and hafts. That animals will not touch it is a clue to its extreme toxicity. Only experienced practitioners should consider Buxus when exorcising the malevolent spirits that cause severe spiritual pain or the loss of control or identity. It is perhaps best included as a garden subject or ritual object instead as its fine properties are well tempered and manageable in these forms without it being dangerously cathartic to the spirit.