Question about the Mullein plant

Has anyone harvested this plant. Whats worth harvesting on it, the tops or roots. Whats the root worth per pound.?

I've harvested the herb (leaves) in the past. Not sure if there is a market at the moment.

i harvest it for home use

What is it? And what does it taist like?

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.

Thanks!

I just read up on it. I might have to get some for personal use.

Foxkidd44, does it work well?

The leaves also make a good toilet paper in a pinch. LOL

Sure beats giving up a sock any way!

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!

Thanks for all the info. I was hopeing it had a value to it, thei's hillsides covered in it. Thanks, Chad

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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.

Wish I had some of that right now

you can still find it...around here it stays pretty green all year

Chad: A few buyers bring int in fresh and offer around ten to fifteen (on the high side) cents per lb.

Is this it?

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??