Next time you make mullein tea, inhale that steam, it's the best part! Nothing beats it for loosening congestion in the chest or sinuses - just keep a box of tissues handy, you'll need them :-)
1quart regular tea bag 1/4 c dried Mullein leaf (I use coffee filter w/twist tie) Add to 2 quarts of boiled water. Allow to steep an hour or 2. I drink it daily, hot/iced ☕
I had covid in march and my lungs have never fully recovered 6 months later. I have tried everything. Today is my first cup of Muilin tea. I am drinking it as I watch this video. Sadly dont have the other ingredients but fingers crossed it will help
I literally have thousands of Mullein plants in my area... it’s everywhere! I’m gonna start harvesting it tomorrow. If Mullein helps me half as much as Wild Lettuce has help me, I’d be thrilled! Wild Lettuce is changing my life immensely! Best pain reliever ever... it’s AMAZING!!! Thanks for the video! 🥬
If you could send the seeds I would appreciate it the plant grows up on Saddle road on the Big Island but not anywhere on OAHU 1112 Kinau st #1003 Honolulu,Hawaii 96814
They're not easy to find around here. I got a couple of plants, and I've spotted a few more. Going to try planting some on my property. But wild lettuce is everywhere! So is goldenrod, but it hasn't bloomed yet.
I make a mullein tea, add in some acai, a little blueberry and some erythritol to sweeten...chill it...you've got a lovely delicious cold drink perfect for warm weather and that's great for you!
Stumbled upon this while researching how to pronounce it. Growing profusely in my dad’s yard in Belle Plaine Minnesota. I’ll spread the word! Thank you
@@mercyonus5292 probably grows across the globe! ha ha. I am in Colorado too - they are about 7-8 ft high in my front yard, with more than one flower stalk on each plant - some have 4 or 5 flower stalks.
Hi Josh.. you said you use this frequently.. Is there any limit to how often Mullein tea or tincture shold be used in terms of safety re dosing? Thank you.
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I suggest using coffee maker with its regular paper filter( you can even double the filter) for mullein leaves and save the headache of thinking how to filter it from the hair. Isn't good idea? Please let me know if you like it. Thank you very much for the interesting information you provide us with.
Be careful because of contaminants. If someone nearby you used weed killer, chemicals, bug spray, and it gets into your yard because of rain, wind, etc etc, that can be dangerous to consume the mullein as it has been contaminated. So make sure that when you harvest you know it doesn't have any contaminants on it.
I just picked some Mullein leaves from a vineyard near a riverbed yesterday. So excited to make a decoction! Low key might dry some and smoke it too 😋😊
Well smoking it by itself won't do anything really. It's a rather airy smoke, mild and pleasant tasting. People have used it to add body to other herbal smoking mixtures and for help in quitting smoking tobacco. For quitting smoking they'll simply mix Mullein with tobacco and decrease the amount of tobacco over time because Mullein by itself is too airy. Some of the spice products that were around a few years ago had Mullein leaves in them because the other herbs used were too leafy and harsh. The Mullein mellowed it out. Just some information for you if you decide to smoke it. Hope you enjoy your Mullein either way and thanks for commenting!
This was a super cool video! Just learning about this plant and have found some just up our new back forest hill. Do u wash it b4 you dry it out? I just picked some today.
@@TrilliumWildEdibles I've read that just as the hairs can irritate airways if not strained from tea/tincture, the hairs can also irritae if used as toilet paper.. Is that not true, please.. otherwise it would be great. :)
If it does only that (helping my IBS) I would be thrilled. The herb I found that helped the most with my I BS was Dandelion root and Chickory root together to make a tea. Drank it every day for a few months and the symptoms stopped.
I'm inquiring in order to treat COPD, trying to get away from using lots of guafenisen. I've seen mulleine recommended and has been used for thousands of years to treat chest/sinus congestion. Also recently learned it's effective as a pain reliever--so for someone who lives in pain (orthopedic and neurogenic) constantly, this is valuable to know. My question is, can you "overdose" on mulleine? For moderately advanced COPD, would I need to take more than twice a day, or could I prepare larger amounts and just divide it up? Thank you for a simple to follow understand instruction.
Mullein is the first plant I learned about and as an asthmatic and a mother of extremely asthmatic child who was constantly in the hospital for her asthma her first 3yrs... I was introduced to mullein for that reason and I was skeptical about it at first so I did loads of research and found that it's actually a common ingredient for most if not all asthma medications so we tried it I tried it first and thought wow then my daughter had an asthma attack one night and we gave her some mullein in some elderberry tea and it worked better than taking a nebulizer treatment ever has and now she's 9 and it's our #1 go to now and we haven't been to the hospital since we started using it and we don't really use our prescription meds unless we are out of mullein ❤ I mix it in with coffee in the mornings and unless we are sickly that's our daily treatment for the whole family!!! I highly recommend it over prescription asthma or Bronchitis treatment/medication weather your sick or not no matter the age even if you're pregnant or a breast feeding mom don't be scared to at least give it a try.. in my research I found out that there's a lot of either harmful or useless additives in the most common prescription medications that are actually unnecessary for pregnancy and or breastfeeding or anyone for that matter...it's a great organic one ingredient medicinal treatment that will only cost you a little walk in your yard park lakeside woods ditchline or wherever.. Dead serious if you or anyone you know has breathing issues of any kind try it... it's already in you meds your taking so just cut the extra crap out and go for it.. I cannot remember the scientific medicinal name used to list it on the ingredients list of breathing meds so you may have a look it up to see what I mean but it's there it's a main ingredient and they use scientific medical names to cover up the fact its a plant that grows everywhere and is classified an invasive weed go figure huh if you are not into making pharmaceuticals then you wouldn't know and that includes doctors nurses and pharmacy staff I schooled my children's Dr on this already 😊 and proved that she writing prescription drugs to children she doesn't truly know about 😢 boy was she upset and called cps as well 😒 to find just how right I am 🎉
Wow, what an awful person that doctor must be, to call cps on a good mother trying to get toxic pharmacy crap out of your families system. Good for you. I just found out about this herb a few weeks ago and to my surprise I found 20 plants on the property we rent here in central Oklahoma. I've already harvested some, washed in cold water and dried in the sun. I did find some of the yellow flowers this morning and just made a fresh cup of tea. I've added the flowers too. Do you know if the flowers are edible? Also I've had asthma since birth and am 54 yrs old. Unfortunately I'm a cigarette smoker but trying to quit. I've only been drinking the mullein for a little over a week. I am feeling a difference and noticing I'm not needing my inhaler as much. God is so good for giving us such amazing herbs. I'm new to learning about them and hope to take some free courses 😊. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with mullein. Praying you and your family are always blessed and healthy 🤗
I've an 15mo who is asthmatic and today I saw that the drug he's been taking for asthma from last 8 months has come out as unsafe and causes psychological issues. I just saw your comment, can you tell me if it's safe to take for infants?? I'm too worried about my child and too tired of those long hospital visits and too afraid of anything happening to him😢😢😢
@@aaliyah_khan I'm not an expert but I can tell you my experience so far. My daughter is 9 so not a baby but the mullein tea has helped her asthma symptoms lessen more than I expected it to. I was advised to start out slow to make sure she's not allergic to mullein. She isn't. I would ask your questions on other channels too. Just be careful please. My stepmother thought I was faking an asthma attack when I was 12. I ended up in the hospital for over 2 weeks, she almost killed me.
I feel you could have shown how to get the inner bark off the pine instead of just shaking the tree and pulling a branch and that was it everything else I enjoyed
Where would I find this plant at maybe by a river on dry land? I look for the teabags at some stores but none of them sold them Got some good advice? Thanks so much for sharing this very important meaningful powerful message with everyone of us Amen May God always bless and keep you all together going strong and healthy full of life Amen Thanks again Amen God bless ya all
Hey Josh, I'm my area (North Florida) I don't find any common mullein. We do have an abundance of Wand or Twiggy Mullein, does that have the same qualities and usage of common Mullein? Don't find much info on it at all! Thanks in advance.
Here in Pennsyltucky, you can find mullein on the side of the road! Great for road trips, too. There's a reason they call it Cowboy Toilet Paper, you know...
hey Josh love your channel , learned so much. I have some questions when to propagate using the seeds. do the whole stems /flowers have to be brown before you take off the plant? also on another video someone said the fuzzy part of the leaves are toxic and not sure why then people would use the leaves. I am confused. thanks!
The fuzzy part is definitely NOT toxic. The fuzzy part flakes off while the tea is steeping and if you don't run it through a coffee filter the fuzz is a little scratchy in the back of your throat. I strain the leaves out first after steeping and then run the tea through the coffee filter. I usually make a half gallon batch and refrigerate... don't have to do all the filtering for every cup of tea.
I tried it the other day finally ..I added some of the chocolate mint I've been growing and drying, it was really tasty :) Thank you for always being so kind and taking the time to reply to comments. I hope you are doing well :)
I simply pick all the good ones off, trim off any bad looking spots then rinse well in water. After that I'll pay them dry with some paper towels and then place in a single layer on a drying rack to dry completely. While drying it's important to ensure a low humidity level and to give the leaves plenty of space to prevent them from molding. Also before drying you should look for spider mites or any mold or mildew that's present. This can be tricky because the leaves are covered in tiny little white/silver hairs so you might use a magnifying glass or jeweler's loupe to really investigate them. Hope this helps some and thanks for asking!
I was reading regarding the questions with Mullein tea leaves, BEWARE ! need to be careful of the small seeds are poisonous. And small hairs on the leaves fall off and can itch on skin. Please enjoy the brew , I like it too !🕊🇨🇦🇺🇲🌻🙋♀️
I'll have to try this... but. The white pine. You sure didn't show much about that. I have "white pine"' (living in Michigan.) But the needles don't seem to be as long as the ones you used. Are there more than one type of white pine? And all you showed was snipping off a branch, then there is a bunch of stuff on a plate. Guess I will search for that somewhere else.
I find them in my local grocery store, generally in the tea section, or coffee section. You can also find many versions of them on Amazon as well, or other places online like herbs distributors and retailers. I hope this helps and thanks for asking!
I assume you would harvest the root in the second year? thinking you could add plantain to the tea as well. good to know to boil for 10 min. I found some one year mullein while on vacation and picked a few leaves, but did not boil that long, hoever I let it sit over night; yeah slight green tea taste. great video, as usual.
Technically the second year is supposed to be better but it could work if needed on a first year root. Main thing to keep in mind is to harvest the root in the fall after all of its chemicals have been sent down for storage. Thanks for commenting kleineroteHex!
Trillium: Wild Edibles good to know to harvest the 1st year root. The plants I found on a walk though and just picked some leaves. Probably should not harvest a lot of blossoms so I get seeds and more plants from the 2 i have in my garden thanks
@@TrilliumWildEdibles I thought mullein only grows 2 years than done. so the 2nd year the roots aren't going to store any chemicals for the following year?
@@jeanannl3211 The plant probably still directs its energy downwards after it's done flowering, so that is the best time to use the root for our own consumption!
Thyme is also very good for your lungs. I make a tea (not a decoction) where I steep Mullein leaves, flowers, ginger, and thyme. I let it steep for at least 15 to 20 minutes
Yes, I'm aware. I've addressed this before on this channel. I've always pronounced it that way and don't see a reason to change it. Kind of like po-tay-to and po-tah-to.
It is better to be relatable than stubborn, most common people and herbalists know it as mull-'in'....just saying....when I watched your video I was confused when you first mentioned adding the 'melaine' leaves and the pine inner bark together, I thought it was an herb I am unfamiliar with, and the dried leaves looked nothing like my large dried mullein leaves. I do appreciate your work, do not consider this a derogatory complaint, rather, a helpful hint for being more clear.
@@TrilliumWildEdibles Wrong is still wrong, just because you did it for a long time doesn't make it less wrong. Here, correct pronunciation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xHdsAOfFqyw.html
Generally yes, but it really depends. In this case I got the inner bark from a small twig so it won't hurt the tree overall but it will damage the specific branch. So it's best to harvest it selectively or only from trees that are going to be cut.
Absolutely, even though they are nothing to worry about as they are a portion of the medicinal parts of the plant. Very rarely do these fall off into teas or tinctures, and if they do they aren't harmful. They are actually beneficial surprisingly. Hope this helps and I thank you for asking Samuel!
You're very welcome myfairy talegimail! Not yet, but plan to be working on it soon as I now have internet access again and the Mullein is starting to flower nicely here.
Always cool the tea down from from boiling temperature before adding honey. Raw honey has many medicinal qualities and minerals which are destroyed by high heat. Choose locally gathered raw honey for best benefit and if buying honey at the grocery read the label carefully. Much commercial honey is not pure and has corn syrup added. It is also pasteurized with high heat and has lost it's beneficial qualities. Raw honey is the way to go but don't put it in steaming hot tea or water.
That would depend heavily upon the source of congestion and a person's personal circumstances. Things like mold, mildew, or pollen are a lot harder to get rid of in some cases than something like smoking. I say that because smoking, being an addiction, is harder for others to give up. Then we have the aspect of people who quit smoking but still suffer from congestion. This tea can be very beneficial for them. People who rent but can't get their landlord to remove the mold or mildew might suffer longterm effects of congestion, again this tea comes in handy. I agree that prevention is the best method but is not always possible, therefore having a form of mitigation can be rather helpful.
Sure is, it's something that I mispronounce as that's how I've always said it. Many other posters have said the same thing too, kind of like ketchup, catsup, bologney, bologna. Thanks for commenting trendyasdabbers!
This is so weir, his Mullien plant didn't look like ours. Ours has huge leaves on it and a huge stalk like flowering bulb that grows yellow flowers out of the top.
Mullein has several varieties and each one has several growth forms they take on. I find that some will have larger leaves than others. Why that is I'm not sure though.
He should really learn how to at least pronounce the name properly. It is Mullen... the Mullen is soluble in water, which is the reason that tea is what works for the extraction, otherwise it would take some other solvent to extract the essential oil from the plant material. Sometimes the plant material would take alcohol, or some other solvent to extract the essential properties from the plant material...this plant material can even be smoked, which seems crazy since it is good for your lungs, but it is true, worse case senecio , smoke it!! It goes straight to the lungs where it does it’s magic.... this is real , been helping native Americans for centuries.......good luck...
Might not want to be overly pedantic and discount someone just because they say something different. Besides, there are other countries in Europe where people pronounce it the same way. PO-TAY-TO. PO-TAH-TO
He is actually pronouncing/spelling it correctly. Look it up, it's spelled: Mullein. (I had to look it up just now, back home, everybody pronounces it mullan.
I stand corrected once again. It is not pronounced like it is spelled. It is actually pronounced "Mullan" see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xHdsAOfFqyw.html
That's not very much tea in that cup, son...you need a FULL cup (8 ounces or 240 ml) three times a day if you want to do your lungs any good. Add your honey, add some lemon, and add some slippery elm or lemon balm. That will make the best tea for helping your lungs when you are congested and/or sick. Worked really well for "Long Cov!D" back in 2021.
