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Question about the Mullein plant #2934289
01/08/12 09:22 AM
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Chad Kamolz Offline OP
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Has anyone harvested this plant. Whats worth harvesting on it, the tops or roots. Whats the root worth per pound.?

Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2936828
01/09/12 05:47 PM
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I've harvested the herb (leaves) in the past. Not sure if there is a market at the moment.

Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2937829
01/09/12 11:33 PM
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i harvest it for home use


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2949151
01/15/12 12:19 PM
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What is it? And what does it taist like?


don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.

i can do it because i dont know that i cant.

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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2953257
01/17/12 07:12 AM
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Mullein is a common roadside weed that grows as a rosette of leaves the first year, then produces a tall stalk of yellow flowers the following summer. It's sometimes called lamb's ear or flannel leaf because of the large fuzzy leaves.

Mullein is a useful herbal remedy. The late great Euell Gibbons devoted an entire chapter to it in his Stalking the Healthful Herb. A tea made from fresh or dried leaves in milk helps to releave chest congestion and dry cough. Sweeten with honey. It's important to strain the tea through a coffee filter to remove the irritating hairs from the leaves. Dried leaves have also been smoked to relieve cough, bonchitis, or asthma. The fresh flowers are used to make an ointment with olive oil to treat frostbite, bruises, hemorroids, and ear aches. No mention is made of any use for the roots.

Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2956681
01/18/12 07:55 PM
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Thanks!


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i can do it because i dont know that i cant.

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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2959263
01/19/12 09:04 PM
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I just read up on it. I might have to get some for personal use.

Foxkidd44, does it work well?


don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.

i can do it because i dont know that i cant.

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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2961344
01/20/12 08:56 PM
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The leaves also make a good toilet paper in a pinch. LOL

Sure beats giving up a sock any way!

Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2961410
01/20/12 09:22 PM
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TP you'd think so as soft as it is I read some where the hair on the leaves could cause skin irritation that's not quiet an area I want irritated!


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: TravisJerden] #2962547
01/21/12 02:38 PM
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Thanks for all the info. I was hopeing it had a value to it, thei's hillsides covered in it. Thanks, Chad

Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: foxkidd44] #2977488
01/28/12 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted By: foxkidd44
i harvest it for home use


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: jeremy brua] #2979598
01/29/12 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted By: jeremy brua
I just read up on it. I might have to get some for personal use.

Foxkidd44, does it work well?



yes it does........

i use it in a tea.........in my experince it helps ya when your lungs are congested,,,,,,,,i've used it to help expel the phlegm.


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2986983
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Wish I had some of that right now frown


don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.

i can do it because i dont know that i cant.

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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #2988032
02/02/12 12:08 PM
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you can still find it...around here it stays pretty green all year


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #3006825
02/11/12 12:43 AM
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Chad: A few buyers bring int in fresh and offer around ten to fifteen (on the high side) cents per lb.


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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #3787098
05/02/13 09:18 PM
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Is this it?


don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.

i can do it because i dont know that i cant.

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Re: Question about the Mullein plant [Re: Chad Kamolz] #3789152
05/04/13 05:35 PM
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I think there used to be a big market for it, but I think I heard that someone is commercially growing enough to supply the market. On second thought maybe it's fox glove I heard is now being grown commercially??


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