Burdock

Origin: Eurasia

Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cynareae
Scientific Name: Arctium lappa

Folk Names: Batweed, beggar’s buttons, burrseed, clod-bur, clotbur, cockle buttons, cockleburr, edible burdock, fox’s clote, gobō, greater burdock, happy major, hardock, hurrburr, lappa, loppy-major, love leaves, personata, philanthropium, thorny burr

Magical

Element: Water
Day: Friday
Planet: Venus
Zodiac: Taurus
Deities: Blodeuwedd

Parts used: Root, leaf

Magical Properties: Protection, healing, purification, courage, warding

Lore

• Nicholas Culpeper associates burdock with Venus, due to its uses around pregnancy. Among its list of medical uses includes treating bites of serpents and mad dogs.

Magical Uses

• Place burdock around the home to ward off negativity.
• Wear a necklace of dried, carved burdock root, gathered on the waning moon, on red thread to protect against magic.