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Common Name: MULLEIN, Aäron se Staf (Afr)
Scientific Name: Verbascum thapsus
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Description:
  • Biennial
  • Also called 'Aaron's Rod'
  • Woolly leaves and tall spires of yellow flowers.
  • Hardy.
Parts Used:
  • Leaves and flowers
Medicinal Uses. It is said that:
  • Herb for respiratory complaints since classical times
  • Bitter, cooling – soothes and lubricates tissues and promotes healing
  • Diuretic, analgesic, expectorant, antiseptic
  • Internally:
  • Coughs, whooping cough, bronchitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, tracheitis, asthma, influenza, respiratory catarrh, tuberculosis, urinary tract infection, insomnia, nervous tension
  • Externally:
  • Ear ache, sores, wounds, boils, rheumatic pain, hemorrhoids and chilblain

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