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Mullein (flannel plant, Aaron's rod)
Verbascum thapsus
This page contains information on mullein and how it is used as a herb in alternative herbal treatments to treat ailments and problems, such as bronchitis, cough and earache.
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Although we believe in the therapeutic and healing properties of herbs, care must be taken in the use thereof, as they are powerful compounds.
Family |
Scrophulariaceae |
Genus and specie |
Verbascum thapsus |
Great Mullein, Aaron's Rod, candlewick plant, flannel plant, lungwort, shepherd's staff, velvet dock and torches.
Mullein is a hardy biennial with gray-green, woolly leaves and yellow flowers in the summer.
The dried flower petals are used, and the leaves are smoked as a substitute for tobacco.
It is a bitter, cooling, mucilaginous herb that promotes healing and soothes the tissues. It has diuretic, analgesic, expectorant, and antiseptic properties.
It contains triterpene saponins (including verbascosaponin), mucilage, iridoid glycosides (aucubin, catalpol) flavonoids and phenolic acids.
- Internal use
- The saponins contained in the herb help to loosen and remove mucus from the lungs, while the mucilage
soothes the mucus membranes and the iridoid glycosides help to fight inflammation.
- Internally, it is used for coughs, whooping cough, bronchitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, tracheitis, asthma, influenza, tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, nervous tension, and insomnia.
- Although it is particularly effective to loosen mucus in the lungs it also shows some success with reducing water retention.
- Historically it was also used for genito-urinary tract infections.
- External use
- Externally, mullein is used to treat earache, specifically chronic otitis media (the flowers are macerated in olive oil), sores, eczema (especially around the ear), wounds, boils, rheumatic pain, hemorrhoids and chilblains.
- Aromatherapy and essential oil use
None noted.
To promote the interest and use of herbs and natural complementary health alternatives, we have included information on the following herbs.
Please note - although we discuss a wide variety of herbs, not all of them are used or sold by us.
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