What is Burdock? Scientific and medicinal info I'm sure everyone would recognize the burdock plant, with its prickly brown burrs that grab you when you walk past. The plant is a biennial, and can grow up to 8 feet tall. Tea made from burdock root is quite popular for it's medicinal properties, which are mainly blood purification, liver cleansing, and as a diuretic. The root can be cooked and eaten like a vegetable. Other names Latin: Arctium lappa Common names: Burrseed, Begger's Buttons, Cockleburr, Hardock, Fox's Clote, Clot Burr, Happy Major Magickal Properties Using burdock in rituals You can use either the burdock root or the leaves when using this herb in magick. Burning the leaves can cleanse a room of negative energy. Use small, dried pieces of the root in charm bags for protection. Though burdock is associated with Venus, it's not often used in love magick. Strange, I always thought burdock had more magickal uses than that. Well, live and learn. More Correspondences Other properties Planet: Venus Element: Water Deity: Blessed Be!
Over here they used to make fizzy pop out of it (may still do for all I know) Dandelion and Burdock. It's quite nice, a good alternative to coca cola etc.
Yes - I'd actually forgotten about its existence till I saw your post about burdock...haven't had any since I was a kid.. but I think I might try some again now.
It's quite sweet, but it has a kind of totally unique taste - it's not really like anything else. Imagine if I asked you to tell me what ginger beer tastes like it's impossible. I used to like it a lot - I preferred it to coke or lemonade as a kid, when the local shop used to sell it in 2 pt. bottles. And it's good for the system.
burdock is of course well known for its sticky burrs. do the burrs themselves have a magickal use? i often collect the rust-brown seeds of a relative of burdock, called yellow dock, and use them in money charms.
This is wrong: Other names Common names: Burrseed, Begger's Buttons, Cockleburr, Hardock, Fox's Clote, Clot Burr, Happy Major Cockleburr is a different and poisonous plant that looks like Burdock. http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/cockleburr I have seen a few sites confuse the two. Most of them are accurate, but there are images of Cockleburr labelled as Burdock. You can tell the difference between the two by the shape of the seeds. It is hard to imagine that there ain't some comprehensive online reference resource for all this stuff.
