Name: Bryonia dioica
Toxicity: toxic, skin blisters
Common Name: Wild Hop, Wild Vine
Continent: Eurasia
Habitat: VI
Applicable Plant Components: root, fruit
Sanctificational: root, fruit
Pacificatory: root
Reconciliatory: root
Theurgical: root
Protectant: root
Anecdotal: Bryonia is considered Ram Medicine and it affords protection against lightning. It is a dye plant and the root is used in tanning. Bryonia, although highly toxic, is entreated by experienced practitioners for exorcising virulent and dangerous spirits. These particular spirits wreak havoc on everything causing, for example, dire spiritual pain, the loss of expression or awareness, even devastating weather believed to have been maliciously conjured.