Name: VERBASCUM spp.
Toxicity: not known
V. thapsus (Great Mullein) Continent: Eurasia Habitat:IV,VI
V. nigrum (Dark Mullein) Continent: Europe Habitat: VI
V. lychnitis (White Mullein) Continent: Europe Habitat:IV,VI
V. blattaria (Moth Mullein) Continent: Eurasia Habitat:VI
Applicable Plant Components: herb, root, flower
Sanctificational: herb
Invitatory: root
Convocational: root
Fortificational: herb
Psychical: herb
Pacificatory: herb, root
Reconciliatory: herb, root
Theurgical: herb
Prolongational: root
Amoristic: herb
Protectant: herb
Vulnerary: herb, flower
Sanguinary: herb
Ensurant: herb
Ecstatic: herb
Divinatory: herb
Affixal: herb
Affirmational: herb
Resurgent: root
Anecdotal: Verbascum makes good tinder as well as wick for lamps used to light ceremonies and cast spells. It is worn or carried for protection, or expulsion of predacious and malevolent spirits. Verbascum can be hung in windows and doors to accomplish this as well. As an excellent defense against nightmares Verbascum is placed under pillows. Its revivifying nature is formidable, used ritually to restore sanity and conscious awareness by the means of its smoke or steam. Verbascum is the medicine of strength and courage, appropriate to quests for personal medicine and knowledge. It is also an agent of love used to cast spells and divine in matters of the heart, including remedying broken hearts. The spirit within Verbascum is female and ancestral by nature offered at gravesites and invoked in ritual doctoring. It is a soothing intervention for spiritual pain that has led to injured psyches, wounded spirits and losses of expression and receptiveness.