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| Chicory Cichorium intybus (blue) |
| Flower Facts: Chicory is a bushy perennial herb with blue or lavender flowers. Originating from Europe, it was naturalized in North America, where it has become a roadside weed. The roots are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive in the plant's Mediterranean region of origin, although its use as a coffee additive is still very popular in the American South, particularly in New Orleans. Common chicory is also known as blue sailors, succory, and coffeeweed. The chicory flower is often seen as inspiration for the romantic concept of the Blue Flower. Chicory, especially the flower, was used as a treatment in Germany, and is recorded in many books as an ancient German treatment for everyday ailments. |
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| Flower Meaning: Attachment, Love, Relationships, Release, and Sharing |
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| Bloom and Blossom: Chicory is a very important flower for emotional congestion and misdirected love forces. Those in need of this flower must learn to distinguish between personal emotions and desires, and genuine impersonal love and caring for another. Otherwise, the individual becomes selfish rather than selfless, manipulating the emotions of others for his or her own needs and desires. The energy which would ordinarily flow out from one's heart is thwarted, so that emotions of self-pity, neediness and even martyrdom are experienced. A guise of seemingly loving behavior is very often used as an inappropriate way of soliciting and manipulating the psychic energy and attention of others. Particularly with children, the Chicory pattern manifests as negative attention-getting, fussiness and tantrums which pull on the other members of the family. The Chicory flower nourishes the inner neediness of such souls and helps to re-balance and redirect psychic currents of energy, especially as they flow through the heart and solar plexus. The color that represents Chicory is blue. The positive qualities of Chicory are: Selfless love given freely, respecting the freedom and individuality of others; and emotional containment. |
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