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| Common Names |
| Mullein , Flannel Leaf |
| Botanical Name |
| Verbascum, various species |
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| SCROPHULARIACEAE Figwort Family |
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Traditionally used as a tea, and is frequently combined with other herbs in mixtures for treating cough. The soothing mucilages of mullein coat sore throats and make coughing more productive. May be taken as an extract if fresh material was used, and is very rarely found in capsule form. The fresh flowers are used to make an oil infusion for external use. |
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Prep Methods :tea, oil infusion, tincture
 Remedies using Mullein
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Mullein is towering biennial plant with a single stalk up to 6-1/2 feet (2 meters) bearing whorls of leaves. There are several species of mullein in North America, Verascum thapsus is the most common and widespread. This wayside weed is common to clear-cuts, burned areas, and partially developed lands in the West, where it often serves to regain biological balance and prevent erosion.
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 It is under the dominion of Saturn. A small quantity of the root given in wine, is commended by Dioscorides, against lasks and fluxes of the belly. The decoction hereof drank, is profitable for those that are bursten, and for cramps and convulsions, and for those that are troubled with an old cough Nicholas Culpeper |
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