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This plant always pops up in many places in my garden, so it attracted my interest. I usually let them grow when they are not too much bothering the vegetables that i am growing. This plant has many medicinal uses. The leaves of the plants are also known as 'cowboy's toilet paper.' JE

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Mullein: Heal the earth with cowboy toilet paper


Medicinal uses

Mullein oil is a very medicinal and valuable destroyer of disease germs. The whole plant possesses slightly sedative and narcotic properties. The seeds are considered toxic. They have been historically used as a narcotic and also contain saponins. [1][2]

Bronchitis

Mullein tea (of the leaves) helps relieve bronchitis, especially when accompanied by congestion, hoarseness, fever and coughing. The saponins and iridoid glycosides can help relax the bronchial tubes, loosen thick mucuc, soothe the respiratory tract and promote expectoration.[3]

Earache

An oil produced by macerating Mullein flowers in olive oil in a corked bottle, during prolonged exposure to the sun, or by keeping near the fire for several days, is used as a local application in country districts in Germany for piles and other mucus membrane inflammation, and also for frost bites and bruises. Mullein oil is recommended for earache and discharge from the ear, and for any eczema of the external ear and its canal. Dr. Fernie (Herbal Simples) states that some of the most brilliant results have been obtained in suppurative inflammation of the inner ear by a single application of Mullein oil, and that in acute or chronic cases, two or three drops of this oil should be made to fall in the ear twice or thrice in the day.[4]

Diarrhoea

Mullein is said to be of much value in diarrhoea, from its combination of demulcent with astringent properties, by this combination strengthening the bowels at the same time. In diarrhoea the ordinary infusion is generally given, but when any bleeding of the bowels is present, the decoction prepared with milk is recommended.[5]

Toothache

A decoction of the roots is used to alleviate toothache.[6]

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