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.