Name: Thalictrum minus

Toxicity: considered toxic

Common Name: Meadow Rue

Continent: Eurasia

Habitat: VI, VII

Applicable Plant Components: root, herb, seed

Convocational: root

Desistant: herb

Pacificatory: root

Reconciliatory: root, herb, seed

Prolongational: root, seed

Amoristic: herb, seed, root

Tutelary: herb, root

Preserval: root

Vulnerary: root, herb

Plenitudinal: root, herb, seed

Ensurant: seed

Divinatory: herb

Affixal: root

Affirmational: root

Anecdotal: Thalictrum is handled to reconcile quarreling. It is love medicine that can be rubbed on bachelor’s hands as a love charm. Thalictrum seed can be smoked to enhance ones success in his pursuit of a particular love interest. These same properties that bolster endurance for the task at hand can also be strewn or laced in bedding for its provocative scent, rubbed on clothing or carried in medicine bags. The trifoliate leaves of Thalictrum suggest its connection to the holy trinity of birth, death and rebirth. This is also a reference to in the ancient belief that the father re-conceives himself in the holy mother. He then dies and is reborn her son. The son grows into the father and the cycle begins again. Similar convictions compelled old kings and chieftains to publicly fornicate once a year in order to renew or be reborn into his position of authority again. The spirit within Thalictrum is invoked to address spiritual pain and wounded hearts that have impaired expression, ones sense of vision, enthusiasm for life or attrition of spiritual energy.