Love, Purification, Protection, Sleep. Powdered, it is sometimes used as “graveyard dust.” Use to purify your ritual space. To ward off evil: Hang a sprig of Valerian under a window. Guard against lightning: Hang sachets with powdered Valerian in the home. As a sleep aid: Place a sachet with powdered Valerian in pillows. For marital troubles: Wrap Valerian Root and a picture of you and your spouse in brown paper. Carry this for three days, then take out the root and throw it into running water. Replace it with Lovage root and keep that with the picture from there on. As an uncrossing incense: Burn it alongside a reversing candle, and send the curse back to the person who crossed you.