Name: Sanicula europaea
Toxicity: considered toxic
Common Names: Poolroot, Sanicle
Continent: Europe
Habitat: IV
Applicable Plant Components: herb, root
Sanctificational: herb
Convocational: root
Psychical: herb
Desistant: herb
Pacificatory: root, herb
Reconciliatory: root, herb
Reversional: root
Theurgical: root
Prolongational: root
Preserval: root
Vulnerary: herb
Providential: root
Plenitudinal: herb
Resurgent: root
Anecdotal: In antiquity sacred wells were springs. Pools that bubbled up then disappeared were regarded as particularly enchanted and guarded by the Sanicula that grew near them. The water was esteemed in magic as a wash for practitioners’ tools. The same wash was used on basket makers’ hands relinquishing their spirits from the finished vessels. The spirit within Sanicula is invoked to address poisoned spirits that have lost their energy for expression. This can relate to broken hearts or disconnection from magic or fortuitousness. Sanicula is serious water medicine and deeply feminine linked to supporting harmonious balance within sacred cycles as well as peaceful, ritual rebirth.