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Today's herb of the week is Lobelia!
Gender:Female
Planet: Neptune
Element: Water
Known as:
Asthma weed, Indian tobacco, pukeweed, bladderpod, gagroot, wild tobacco, vomit wort and emetic weed
WARNING: THIS PLANT IS POISONOUS AND SHOULD NOT BE INGESTED
Magickal uses:
•Grind to a powder and throw at an incoming storm to halt or turn it away
•Add the flowers to a satchet with rose to attract love
•Place the crushed leaves in a dream pillow to encourage lucid dreaming
•Use the leaves with a floor wash to banish negative energies and malevolent spirits
•Keep the flowers in an amulet to aid in enhancing positive energy
•Carry with you to protect both your physical and energetic body
•Burn with incense to stimulate psychic powers
Other uses:
•Lobelia is used for breathing problems including asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and shortness of breath (apnea) in newborn infants.
•Some people take lobelia as a sedative to help them relax. Other people use it to increase sweating.
•Lobelia is applied to the skin for muscle pain, joint lumps associated with rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, sprains, insect bites, poison ivy, and ringworm.
•In manufacturing, lobelia is used in cough preparations and counterirritant products. S
Deities:
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good bones by maggie smith saturday . give it up for good bones by maggie smith saturday
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