Name: VIOLA spp.
Toxicity: not known
Common Name: Violet
Continent: North Temperate Zone
Habitat: many diverse species
Applicable Plant Components: herb, root, flower
Sanctificational: herb
Convocational: herb
Fortificational: herb, flower
Psychical: herb, root
Harmonical: herb, flower
Pacificatory: herb, root
Reconciliatory: herb, root, flower
Reversional: herb
Theurgical: root
Prolongational: herb
Amoristic: herb, root, flower
Protectant: herb, flower
Preserval: herb, flower
Vulnerary: root, herb
Plenitudinal: herb
Soporific: flower
Divinatory: herb
Affixal: herb
Resurgent: root, herb
Anecdotal: Viola is another vernal equinox medicine that resolves spiritual pain, the lack of vision and appetite for the future, and the severe losses of expression and personal shields. It is a formidable incarnant for reconciling related endopsychic wounds. Viola brings productive rest, comfort and empowerment in matters of the heart. It enhances beauty, moderates anger and brings changes to luck and fortune. Women eat Viola to endow nursing infants with these and other attributes. Viola protects against malevolent spirits, especially the opportunistic ones that exploit a lack of wellness. Viola flowers can be carried for protection and used in divinations to ascertain the source of bewitchment. The same fine properties figure into medicine and divination regarding matters of the heart, making Viola superb love medicine as well. This link to eternal love might be why Viola is associated with mourning the loss of someone young. Viola goes to Dog Medicine.