Mullein Leaf

Mullein has been used as a premier lung healing herb for centuries, and a plant you may have stumbled across before. It is certainly popular at the moment, with Covid.  Working mostly on the upper pectoral area, Mullein is used to treat everything from bronchitis, asthma, respiratory catarrh and whooping cough, to tobacco cravings and “smoking detox”. Mullein leaf will open up your airways and soften and loosen matter and promote gentle expectoration. Great for wheezing and feeling matter sitting at the top of your chest. The dried leaf and flowers can also be taken as a tea or even smoked as a method of healing lung tissue and helping to reduce tobacco cravings. This tincture is great for long term daily use when quitting smoking or healing from/coping with an illness, but an also be taken by squirting directly under the tongue to aid with immediate breathing issues or a stubborn “frog in the throat”.

Mullein is probably my favorite herb and I worked with her a lot when in NZ. Here I made use of a different wild variety, but the woolly mullein that is traditionally used wasn’t around yet. One year, I discovered a lone seedling by the corner of the bakery, who knows where she came from, but that seedling became the mother of all the Woolly Mullein plants in Nannup, and the provider of all the material for the mullein leaf medicine I make. An imposing queen, she sticks out in the landscape with her giant fluffy leaves and people are drawn to her like moths to a flame. There is certainly something about this plants that speaks to people, and I feel honored to count her as one of my herbal allies.