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How to make mullein tea. Making mullein tea.
In this video I harvest some mullein leaves and dry and store them for storage. Mullein plants have a lot of medicinal uses. Mullein tea for lungs is a common use as well as other respiratory ailments. I use a dehydrator to dry the leaves. Before drying the leaves, I make mullein tea with fresh leaves. I also make mullein tea with dry leaves and also smoke mullein leaves.
Mullein
Scientific name – Verbascum thapsus
Other names – common mullein, woolly mullein or great mullein
Applications – medicinal
Identification:
Mullein plants are fairly distinct in appearance and has a two year growth cycle. During the first year it grows as a basal rosette of densely hairy leaves that are 4 to 15 inches long. The leaves are lance-shaped with round toothed edges or smooth edges.
In the second year, it grows a tall flowering stalk with yellow flowers. The stem can be as much as 5 feet or 2 metres tall. The leaves get progressively smaller going up the stalk and become stalkless at the top near the flowers.
Distribution:
Mullein is Eurasian in origin. Found commonly at low to mid elevations often in gravelly sites, roadsides, fields, and pastures. Found all across Canada and throughout the Pacific Northwest, and widely distributed across North America.
Medicine:
Perhaps one of the most known medicinal uses of mullein is mullein tea for lungs, but there are a lot of other uses. Mullein is well known for its use to treat things like chest colds, asthma, bronchitis, coughs, hot dry respiratory conditions, whooping cough, wheezing, tightness in the chest and/or throat and more.
It has traditionally been used to make medicinal teas. Mullein tea for lungs is a common use to help relive congestion. Chopped dried leaves were also smoked to relieve asthma, spasmodic coughing, fevers, and congestion of the respiratory mucous membranes. The tea works by stimulating the flow of mucus to clear lungs and sinuses.
The list of other conditions different parts of mullein have been used to treat goes on and on. Some notables include earaches, joint pain, irritation of the urinary tract, incontinence, cramps, ulcers, and warts.
Interesting:
Mullein leaves were used as lamp wicks and could also be used as emergency toilet paper could be put in shoes as insoles for sore feet when hiking. The dried flowering stalks were dipped in tallow and used as torches.
Mullein Tea:
Fresh Leaves - Use 2 parts leaves to 32 parts water by weight.
Dry Leaves - Use 1 part leaves to 32 parts water by weight, or use 1-2 tablespoons of dried leaves per cup of water.
Add boiling water to the Mullein leaves, steep for ten minutes, and drink!
Caution!
It contains some things such as tannin, rotenone, and coumarin which are classified as potentially dangerous by the US FDA
*Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!*
References
Kloos, Scott. Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants. Timber Press, Inc. 2017
MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.
Millard, Elizabeth. Backyard Pharmacy: Growing Medicinal Plants in Your Own Yard. Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2015.
Parish, R.; Coupe, R.; and Lloyd, D. Plants of the Inland Northwest and Southern Interior British Columbia. BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. 2018
Wiles, Briana. Mountain States Medicinal Plants. Timber Press Inc. 2018.
0:00 Okanagan Gardener and Forager
0:47 Mullein - Verbascum thapsus
4:29 1 part fresh leaves to 16 parts water by weight
4:46 Steep for 15 minutes
7:36 1-2 tablespoons of dried leaves/cup
8:03 Steep for 5 minutes
8:58 Store leftovers in fridge for up to 24 hours
