Thank you all for joining me today on the homestead! If you need links to silica gel packs or an inexpensive but totally functional dehydrator do check the description box for links! I would love to hear about if you all have used Mullein before and what your experiences have been!! 😍

Don’t forget, you can smoke it! I know it sounds counterintuitive, but smoking Mullen clears out mucus.

Love how all of this could literally cost nothing, especially when you reuse a jar! Reusing a cute candle jar is an especially great idea ♥

My grandaddy told me his aunt would boil the leaves for a few mins and wrap the leaves around a joint that was hurting from arthritis.

To the point and easy to watch, didn't even need to speed it up or skip anything!

Lovely vid from a lovely woman, thank you.

Don't forget to stain it through a coffee filter!! The hairs can irritate your throat

Walking the dog this summer, I passed a beautiful mullein growing right along edge chanelink fence. Causing it to grow like an open hand fan. I remembered a little hippy girl, back in the year 1980, tell me by rubbing mullein blossom and crushed seed bracks on my warts and it would remedy their existance. So!! It works!! I had a pea sized wart on my knee. So everyday, if not evert other day I apply blossom and rub crushed seed bracks on the wart. Sometimes I would put bandaid over the mushed mullein poultice to stay on warr throughout the day. After a week wart started to diminish. Two months through this season the wart is completely gone. Compound W and cryotherapy never succeeded before with my lifelong affliction of the wart virus. THIS REALLY WORKED. Fortunate timing for me to have this plant on my path

Mother Nature gifted me with six new mullein plants this year. Last year, none. I live in an allergen petri dish region so I truly need this plant. Tomorrow is the day to harvest, process, and heal. Thanks for a very nice video.

Mullen is really good to soothe the throat, Relieves dry cough, very soothing

Interesting entry on Wikipedia for Joseph E. Meyer. He was a botanist and founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens.

Thank you so much for this wonderful information!

Enjoyed your video keep I going lots of herbs out there

FWIW, I make mullein tea in our espresso maker. I put a tea bag of some kind tea in the bottom of the little stainless steel coffee holder to filter out any of the fuzz on the leaves and then smash as much dried and crumbled mullein leaf as I can on top of the tea bag in the coffee holder. Then I run just few ounces of water through the espresso maker and then let the mullein steep for a bit, like at least 10 minutes. Then I run a full carafe of water through it to make a full big cup of tea, and I add a teaspoon of raw local honey to it. You can really feel the mullein tea after you drink it. It's a very slight but lovely euphoric feeling. But you really do have to make it like I've described to feel it, or drink about five or more cups of it if you're using tiny tea bags that hold just a teaspoon of tea in them, and that won't taste near as good. Now the most notable thing for both my wife and I about mullein tea is that you'll feel better for a long time after drinking just one big cup like I've described. I'm talking weeks or more. We'll go a month or more without having any and after that at some point we'll realize how much better we felt and make it again. We're pretty lucky to live in a rural area where mullein is abundant. We have 4 huge 1st year plants that sprung up in our garden right now.

very informative video on mullen. thanks

Finally got some established around the homestead. I have to move two tiny plants out of the driveway tomorrow. Thanks you for the easy tips. Blessings

Thank you all so much for your tips and help.❤

I'm just learning about mullein which grows insanely and wildly through my property. I had read you could only use the leaves off plants that are in flower which seems silly. You seem trustworthy so I'm going to try going by your suggestions and only taking the smaller leaves for tea. So glad I've found your channel today. 😊🌱❤️

Nice.. thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you. 🇬🇧

beautiful farm,, beautiful lady,, beautiful life,,,,

Thank you…very helpful 🙏🏻🦋💕

I've got a monster mullein growing in my yard. Literally 6'2" and on it's second year, but hasn't started flowering. Just learning about the plant. Now I will definitely try some mullein tea.

Thank you

Since i have no mullein growing on my property, I always look for some mullein on my foraging walks. I bring it home, rinse the leaves and leave on my baking rack on the kitchen counter to air dry until crispy. Then I simply break up the leaves and store in a mason jar. I'll use a teaspoon in a large mug with boiling water when Im very congested. I do use a small mesh strainer to remove the leaves and hairs before drinking. I've never noticed any irritation from the tiny hairs, so I assume that's enough to remove then. Works great!

Can anyone suggest the best book for mullein from harvesting to recipes? Once off grid the internet will e of no use. Thanks!!

I just found Mullein in my yard and now I found your channel. Ty so much for this info!!! New sub.. great job!!

Thanks, lot of knowledge shared! as a smoker and gardener im going to come to appreciate this plant which I thought was a weed.

I recently saw how muellin works. It's helping my hubby who has cold. Much less coughing! I have quite a few plants on my property.Any other herbs knowledge is welcome and appreciated! Thx!!!

This video made me subscribe, your pretty awesome and helpful. I plan on growing my own but come face to face with it on a day-to-day basis with my work. I'm sure to start harvesting soon.

since i never get sick, i use Great Mullein (yes there are other kinds) as a skin tonic with an oil infusion. i work outside in my little orchard all day so to keep my skin from looking my age, i use the oil infusion on my skin after shower. i have used olive oil and sunflower oil before. this is why i don't look as old as i am 🙂 i grow them all over my orchard. they are highly beneficial plants. they improve soil, are favor of pollinators, spikes left over winter feed birds, they provide protection for many beneficial insects, and they inhibit weeds. and there are more medicinal uses for them as well. one of the best plants around 🙂

Mullein is my top medicinal herb. I let it self sow in my veggie garden for easy harvesting in the spring. It is exceptional as a decongestant. The tea is really tasty (my friends agree). I've never found it bitter. To me it tastes like green tea and honey. And definitely filter this tea through a paper filter. The fine hairs on it can irritate.

Think I've heard the roots can be used for eye wash for sore eyes or piles, makes a good toilet paper. Personally, when I was a kid, I'd hunt the dry mullen stalks, take the sharp edges off and use them as the sticks for my homemade newspaper kites. They were light and flexible enough to work pretty well.

I mask the flavor with decaf chai tea and honey for my teens to drink it

Do you have a video on how to use the flower please?

Gonna nickname you DOc.😊

I've become very fond of Mullen the last couple years. I haven't found it to be bitter at all.

There's tons of it in the field next to my apartment complex!

cool stuff

Where I am at I used to spray this with herbicide to kill it when I worked for the Forest Service because I was required to. Now I leave it alone 😂

I'll have to go traipsing through our woods in back and see if we have any already growing. Is it something that can be propagated as well? I'm trying to decide on some herbs for next years gardening.

Have you ever tried to use the root of the plant as a tincture for pain?

Any chance you are going to make more medicinal herb videos? I stumbled across this mullein one and then the St John’s Wort one, and I love your style! But there don’t appear to be anymore!

You can use mullein oil as drops in the ears for an ear ache. The flowers are used, to make the oil I am looking for how to make it.

I tried to dry mine in the oven on a low temp but I think I over did it? It’s brown. No light green at all. Does that mean it’s no good now?

How do we get Mullins to spread

How long does Mullen last dry before it's no good?

what about a Mullein Tincture?

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Hi! Do you strain the tea as well or just drink all?

Your charming. Unfortunately I never get sick. Should have in the pantry nonetheless, SOMEONE has got to get sick! Lol. Tea is a good idea, I need more tea and should get into beekeeping, honey with tea yum! An interesting experiment is drying mullein outside in the sun with a solar powered fan. The wind probably is a key factor in getting herbs to dry faster. Dehydration packets that change color are wonderful. Shelf life of herbs is related to dryness, so if you have a bottle of herbs and the enclosed silica packet is saturated and no longer absorbing moisture then your eating/ingesting product thats getting old and lost some of its potency. Tinctures in vodka are much better in that they never absorb moisture and lose efficacy, unlike a capsule in a bottle. Vodka (ideally organic) is an extremely important item in the pantry and useful in more ways than one. :)

Does Mullein help support or have any benefits if someone has COPD .. and would it interact with any pharmaceutical medications they would be taking like for instance with Afib or heart conditions?

does the smell irritate the throat when in the oven

Do you wash your Mullen before dehydrating it to use in teas?

All are similar but thepantwith me the flower is white and the taste is very bitter ,Is it mullein??Reply please

No one is talking about smoking the plant. I have it in my herbal smoke blend!

Can I still use the flowers if they have dried out

This year my mullein plants decided to grow numerous million stalks with the flowers. I have never seen this before. Quite a few have 4-8 heads on each plant. Does anyone know why this is happening?

What is the book you’re reading?

I've searched all over the Internet for specifics about utilizing the ROOT from time of harvest, like the ancients would do. Drying?, do I grind it or mince?, can I add to a random meal preparation to avoid buying gel caps?, nothing to LEARN from. I found a company selling the Mullein capsules of powdered, but not specifying if it's from leaves, roots, combo, but it does mention mg dosage for their product. Not much to LEARN from though. Don't want to blindly just take stuff like this generation does, and FDA says NO to everything that doesn't have a patent. And sadly, I didn't know any 150yr old native Americans to ask either.

You didn't mention smoking the leafs..?

The book didn't talk about smoking it.

WHAT ABOUT RINSING OR WASHING THE MULLEIN? MINE IS MUDDY

Why is mullein not a listed ingredient in mullein gummies???

Can you smoke it?

And the day I go to get it growing on the side of the road, some idiot mowed it down

Can I smoke it

I wouldn’t store medicine in a candle jar that was used with scented candles from the store.

Am i hearing a slight Canadian accent? Mother is Canadian?

💖🪴💖I dug one up from the backyard of a subsidized housing establishment, asking permission of course, because it was there all alone in a patch of grass like a weed, and I I had the agreement. Unfortunately my scientific test of chilling it in the refrigerator for a whole day caused it to die. Yet they do that in florists with flowers. I loved touching its velvet leaves. A power of zenitude. I named him Hulk, inspired by the color and by Esau the vellu, brother of Jacob in the Bible. Yet it grew like a cabbage, with the crystal fertilizer! I would have kept it as a cabbage, not as a tropical plant one meter high! Unless you want to make a garden, in the corners here and there. An honorable burial in a box put in a trash bag for its way to landfills. I've had my lesson in caution. It was so fragile because it had VERY few roots. The earth dominated her more than she who dominated the Earth. Too much humidity = a smaller pot and soil germination on a daily basis. The numerous roots are too important.

You didn't say anything about the roots

“The large, less fluffy leaves are less useful medicinally” and “in the first year stage, take only about a third of the leaf matter…” ok, so I think I’ve had this plant for at least a couple years, growing wild out in my blueberry patch. I think I even mowed it down a couple times. This last week was the first time I’d ever heard of Mullein, and it just so happens I’ve been sick with something weird for about a month. A cough, plugged up ears… So I went out and picked a bunch of the biggest leaves, washed them off, spun them, and laid them out to dry. Then I found your video. Should I even bother using these big leaves? I don’t want to pick the rest of the plant now, as I’d like it to keep growing, but I’m fed up with doctor-prescribed remedies that have done nothing to help me, and I want to try some tea. Any advice?

So disrespectful! All living forms deserve respect. Plant and medicine require awareness, understanding, compassion and gratitude. It is, for indigenous cultures, very disrespectful to harvest the whole plant. They have life and cycles as we all do. Taking small sample after asking and offering thanks in some appropriate from is most appropriate . Giving thanks to the Source from which it came.

I have a few of these near my office on the roadside. There is one plant that is massive with long leaves and taller than myself. Is a large plant like that ok to harvest from or are the smaller ones more desirable?