Love Your Lungs: How To Make a Potent Mullein Infusion
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Love Your Lungs: How To Make a Potent Mullein Infusion
I am often asked how one uses mullein for its lung supportive properties. Today, I am glad to share with you this new video lesson on how to prepare a simple, yet, powerful preparation with the fuzzy leaves of mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
Mullein has a long history of use for supporting the respiratory system. It tones and soothes (demulcent) lung tissue into a healthier state to be used after illness (bronchitis), or insult (smoke, smog, etc); or during an illness: helpful in bronchitis, laryngitis, coughs (anti-tussive) (anti-spasmodic), and asthma.
Mullein is an expectorant, which means it helps bring out unwanted phlegm. All of this while having a calming effect!
This worthy, wild and gentle herbal ally is available to us worldwide. Who knows, some may be growing right outside your door.
Please view our other mullein videos where I show you how to ID, harvest and find this supportive friend. Links to those are here: • MULLEIN Deep Dive: Lun... , • MULLEIN Deep Dive (Pt.... , • MULLEIN Deep Dive (Pt....
To your health!
Dina
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Had a coworker one time that insisted on working even though she had pneumonia. You could hear her (trying to) breath from the next room. I gave her some Mullein and told her how much to use. She said that she didn't believe in "all that herbal hooey" but took it anyway.
Later that night (when she should have been going to the hospital) she got desperate and made some tea and drank it.
She came in to work the next morning raving about how well and how quickly it cleared her lungs up. She's been after me for more herbal remedies ever since.
Remember, before "modern medicines" all you had was foods, plants and herbs.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
I've been drinking mullein and green tea and noticing a big difference. 😊
@@dianefaust6218 Glad!
We have this growing in our garden and I've been wondering the best way to use it. Thank you for sharing!
creativitycatalyst,
It can be smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe for quick but short term relief (within 5 to 15 minutes for 1 to 2 hours). Or drank as a tea that takes effect in 20 to 40 minutes and lasts around 4 or more hours.
Start with 1 Tbsp of leaves (dry or fresh) in 1½ cup of water boiled down to 1 cup. CAUTION Filter it before drinking. It won't hurt you. But it will give you a dry, scratchy throat for a while.
I have never heard of anyone over dosing, so you can increase the amount you brew and how often you drink it with little worry.
As a tea, it's also good for lower back pain and "stiff joints". I, myself, have never used if for back pain or joints; but I have had people tell me that it does help.
Hope this helps and happy harvesting.
A random lady walked up to me and told me she had a cough for months that wouldn't go away and tried mullien and it cleared it right up. She was so happy she wanted to tell anyone who would listen. I didn't know her and immediately took is as a sign to remember the herb. Sometimes God shares information via strangers.
Thank you for sharing this. Good to hear!
She may have been an angel ❤️
The lord is so good to us,thank you.
💯
Is there any plan to extract oxytocin from ergot? I really want to know how to do it.@@DinaFalconi
Someone turned me on to this herb and now my Mom is almost completely free from Lung problems. It works!
Thanks, good to hear.
How to use it
How does she use it
@@angiebailey9829 I think she got the tablets and oil at Whole Foods.
Can you tell how can she's use I put warm water than I drink my chest pain havy and now feel block chest
I have crap lungs from smoking cigarettes for 40 years . I couldn't believe the difference after my first mullien tea. It's a miracle. It grows all over my land
Thanks, Wookie, for your comment.
So you have to drink it or inhale it? I could not watch the full video but i was a heavy smoker too and still have a bad lung, i really want to try
@@yorshka6955I have experimented with smoking it a bit but usually I make tea with it. I’ve heard that smudging and breathing in the smoke works well rather then directly inhaling it.
@@yorshka6955u drink
Thanks for sharing my husband has COPD this would be great
This stuff helped save my life during my Covid infection. I thank the people who suggested it in a FB group.
Thanks good to know! How did you consume it?
@@DinaFalconi I bought it off Amazon as tea leaves I like in UK, I couldn't find it in leaf form unfortunately and was too sick to even bother checking.But it really helped. I will look for the leaves next I think. Great advice though thanks .
@@DinaFalconi can you recommend some organic places to buy this from I have asthma and am in my month long battle with COVID. I have lots of inflammation still and this cough won’t go away
@@Ssosophisticated . FOR ALLERGIES - Himalayan salt helps stop itchy eyes & ears & phlegm - put 1/8 tsp ( or less) on tongue & roll it around & under tongue using small amount of liquid - do for as long as possible up to 1 minute & swallow with another sip of liquid, followed by more sips of liquid. FOR A COUGH - & to stop mucous in lungs - drink 1/4 to 1/2 cup of pineapple juice or eat pineapple - makes cough productive then calms the cough. works well for COPD & asthma. Both work in about an hour. Lasts about 4 hours. I've done this as much as 4 times a day, didn't want too much salt, but could still do pineapple.
@@Ssosophisticated amazon has it
My husband when he was a firefighter- had to go into a house without an air tank because they were out. (This was maybe 2 decades ago) He inhaled a lot of smoke and toxic fumes. An native elder taught us about the herb. He was told to smoke it - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MOST- so it would make him cough up the crap from the fire. He then drank the tea for several weeks after coughing up all the chemicals to finish healing his lungs.
hello jamie, thank you for your message, it is really helpful .which ethnicity does the native elder belong to please ? as i love to research on different cultures herbal remedies ( i am from the uk )
@@missc3023
Native American
Thank you for sharing this experience! Good to know.
It would be interesting if this would help with asbestos poisoning.
@@jamiecumbridge4645 thank you for your response:)
I work as a nurse in an area of the country where a lot of our patients live away from the city, and have a semi off grid lifestyle. I've had patients for years talk about the benefits of mullein tea, even comparing it's beneficial effects on some infection diagnosis (usually ear infections or a bronchial issue) to some of the strongest antibiotics we would prescribe for those conditions. And most often, when we follow up with our rural patients they have quick improvement in their symptoms and are remarkably in better condition on their follow up visit (when we can get them in for those :D ).
Thanks, Jim, for your comment. Good to hear this!
Retired nurse here. Asthmatic w/massive lung damage from pulmonary emboli. Then rare lung cancer requiring removal of a lobe. After surgery I couldn't breathe. They would test me and then do nothing but order more tests. I was to the point I was looking for a hospice. (Large city w/specialized lung hospice.) After watching Dina's other video about mullein I tracked down some mullein tea. After a week I could breathe again. I got to the point I was forgetting to use my inhalers. Mullein is nothing but miraculous. I still drink the tea and always will. There is no lung patient that is too far gone that mullein won't make more comfortable. I swear by it.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
@@sandys.1891
I can testify that the oil will heal chronic ear infections esp in children and cured vertigo in a loved one. Truly a miraculous herb.
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
Revelation 4:11, KJV
Thanks.
Amen
@@jennirenfer2578
God bless you! ♥️🙏🏻
Amen
I made a Mullein, usnea and Lemon balm tea for Omicron, we beat it in 4 days at 65.
Good to know. Thank you for sharing.
AWESOME! Thank you for sharing.
@@melindahernandez8778 hi I was wondering if you could help me. I'm in a Spanish speaking country and have no idea what it's called in Spanish. Thanks
It’s omicron….I guarantee your concoction did nothing
@@prestonphillips3375 your guarantee is as useless as a three dollar bill.
I love seeing someone who does the healing right from the kitchen.
Thanks, I too enjoy this: kitchen healing arts!
And it’s grounded in knowledge and not the latest non herbalist DIY’s. It matters.
Back in the day, all women everywhere used to do that!! But that changed within the last 100 or so years. We lost sooo much knowledge!!!
My lungs were in bad shape as I have been a smoker for years. Coughing, whizzing etc. I tried this tea and it works like a miracle. My lungs have never felt better.
Thanks for your comment.
Will it help for emphasyma
Thanks for saying this bro , I’m going to start my journey as a person whos been smoking weed for about 10 years constant
@@seaccf5877did it help?
I have Covid right now ! I started taking droplets 💧 in water. I went from coughing up and heavy chest to being able to breathe and my chest felt light. WOW this works 🌱🌿🌱 Medicine in nature! Thank you Lord !!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
Will it relieve tightness in chest?
@@jivory6131 I believe it will in addition to avoiding ALL dairy for a while. Sodium Caseinate is a dairy derivative and acts like dairy. I used to use Mullein all of the time in addition to avoiding dairy for a while when I had a cold until it was cleared up. After the illness is gone, you can have the dairy again. Avoiding dairy just speeds up the recovery process.
Just remember that thsi is not a replacement to medicine or treatment.
There has actually been zero evidence, even compared to other plants, of helping treat Covid.
Where did you get the droplets from please
I dried a big jar of mullein this past summer but thought I would try and grow it in the house over winter ( northern Minnesota). It is happily growing here in my GreenStalk, though not like outside in summer, along with lemon balm, mint, oregano, dill, pansies, celery, parsley, sage…..got a pharmacy right here in my living room 🥰
Thanks, and love your: "got a pharmacy right here in my living room 🥰"
We had our first Mullein plant show up in our greenhouse in several pots. We have no idea where it came from, but we are so thankful for it & your video. 💜
Smoked some for the first time yesterday. I mixed in a bit of tobacco. It had a metallic taste. Not bad.i will try only Mullein next time
@@AZTLANSOLDIER13
Becareful not to smoke it a lot it can effect your lungs any smoking isn't good. Tea is best.
@@AZTLANSOLDIER13you don't have to roll it and smoke it. You can burn it and inhale the smoke.
My brother, who's 50, is in the hospital with Covid. I do suspect he has pneumonia based on the questions I asked him. He has difficulty breathing, heaviness in his chest, and back. I'm upset because he was home sick for 1 week unable to eat and did not contact me. I am here to learn what I can in case I may need this information for myself or my mother one day. Yet, I pray my brother makes it out of the hospital; he did not sound well at all on the phone. Good health is so invaluable..
Sending healing wishes!
🙏🙏🙏 🌍🌏💞
Dawn,. . FOR ALLERGIES - Himalayan salt helps stop itchy eyes & ears & phlegm - put 1/8 tsp ( or less) on tongue & roll it around & under tongue using small amount of liquid - do for as long as possible up to 1 minute & swallow with another sip of liquid, followed by more sips of liquid. FOR A COUGH - & to stop mucous in lungs - drink 1/4 to 1/2 cup of pineapple juice or eat pineapple - makes cough productive then calms the cough. works well for COPD & asthma. Both work in about an hour. Lasts about 4 hours. I've done this as much as 4 times a day, didn't want too much salt, but could still do pineapple.
prayers🙏
Start boosting that immune system up. Ask the medical team , can he take vitamins, or have home made remedies.
I trust your advice far beyond the pharmekia system. Thank you.
Hello Peter, Thanks for your comment.
Yessss, love this! When my house was stricken with covid I made my Mullien with Life Everlasting, fresh lemon and honey in a tea or I ground up my Mullien mixed it with cayenne pepper and slapped it in a pill...GAME CHANGER!! TFS! ❤
Thank you for sharing your details!
reported for covid medical misinformation
@@jacobhealy8376 wow really?
@@jacobhealy8376 really? Why watch a video knowing what it’s about. Just scroll on if it doesn’t meet your medical expectations. You a Doctor?
@@jacobhealy8376 You picked this one comment to report out of them all. 🤔 Looks like you're out to cause ripples.
Thank you for mentioning the fine hairs of Mullein leaf !!
I had forgotten all about that characteristic until I saw this ! I had bought several pounds of cut and sifted herbs and roots, mullein being one of them. I made myself a tea with the use of an infuser, through which some loose herbs had come. It caused me a rather long hardy and bothersome coughing episode, and I thought perhaps i had just used too much!!
Now i know...! I think my next approach will be to follow your advice and make a quart or two at a time using cheesecloth to strain it, and NOT an infuser ball!!
Thanks, glad you shared your experience here!
If yo
Do you suggest cheese cloth or another less absorbant cloth?@@DinaFalconi
@@fefecrow I suggest using a thin poly/cotton cloth. I cut pieces out of old bed sheets for this. Cheese cloth is too porous.
Recipe:
0.5 oz dried mullein leaves +
1 quart boiling water
Let it steep for four hours.
After four hours strain it, but it must be strained particularly. Strain it through a thin cloth that’s non absorbent. The mullein has very fine hairs that if not strained through a cloth can get it in your throat*** and cause a coughing issue. Keep straining until there is no liquid left.
Note: Originally I wrote that the fine hairs could get in your lungs because that was what was said in the video. However, some people are saying otherwise.
Yes, thanks! And mullein has very fine hairs....
How can fine hairs get stuck in one's lungs if one is drinking some Mullien infusion?
@@DinaFalconi how can fine hairs get in lungs if drinking a liquid?
I've read about the fine threads as an irritant to the throat, but I'm also asking this question that Henry/Susan are inquiring about.....
@@susanbender2953 Thanks, fine hairs can tinkle our throats, and upper air way passages, but perhaps not all the way down into the lungs. And this still can cause irritation and coughing for many folks.
Good video. I’ve been making infusions for years and mullein is plentiful here. Only suggestion I would make is most people who make this don’t use doctors because most doctors can’t be trusted. Trust yourself and experiment with different herbs to see what best works for you. Good day!
Thanks for your comment!
She has to say the doctor thing to avoid legal liability. She’s a smart cookie, I’m sure she’s aware.
My mother has been giving me Mullein since i can remember. Now adult i can see how powerful and important this plan is. Not sure if it makes a difference but her recipe is, boil Mullein with Eucalyptus one tablespoon of Honey with half a lemon juice. And this would be for a Single serving so you can drink it nice and warm.
Thanks for sharing your mother's recipe here.
Just want to share gratitude to Earth Mother and Mullein, to Dina for making this video, and to my Higher Power for leading me here. I am two months free of nicotine use and smoking, and I just recently have developed a cough. The doctor gave me prednisone and an inhaler but neither seem to be helping and today i started to panic a little. I have some hope now that Mother Mullein can help me. Thank you, thank you! PS I have the book you made with that talented illustrator and attended a gathering where we foraged for herbs and practiced drawing them. You are a wonderful teacher!
Hello Laurie, thank you for your comment! Be well.
Iv been on an inhaler excabated asthma for 10 years when l got asthma at 45. Also been on predisone when it's really bad. Now l find l have to take more predisone to make a difference. Xrays say clear lungs. Tried Mullen tea didn't seem to work but l might give this a go. Laurie l hope you notice a difference soon. It can be really scary when you breathe won't come. I really find drinking lots of warm water helps to thin the phlegm. Coffee black or Earl Grey tea is an awesome bronchilator as well. By now you would think a cure for the different types of asthma would have been found. Maybe there's too much money to be made off the sick. I've also cut out dairy, peanuts, refined sugar, wheat . Made some what of a difference. But drinking lots of warm drinks def helps. Get well soon. ❤
@@Ayeayeaye614 thank you Denise. I hope you continue to heal as well. I have stopped coughing up phlegm from deep in my lungs so that’s a positive development.
@@lauriegorham2746 It sounds like your body was doing some natural cleansing from smoking, it goes through stages. I am glad you are feeling better. Keep exercising your diaphragm and lungs by taking a few deep breaths, holding and then releasing, a few times daily. That is good for all of us to remember to do, sometimes in our daily lives, many of us do not breathe deeply, and or hold tension, so building muscles and releasing tension is always a good thing!
@@AhJodie thank you, yes that is certainly possible, although when the cough started the phlegm indicated there was infection. What’s left now is more like “smoker’s cough” phlegm. Sorry if this is TMI. I have to say the mullein tea helped tremendously, so Ty again Dina for sharing this remedy! And thanks again to Ahjodie for the reminder to breathe deeply. It still hurts a little to do this so I need to keep exercising everything in there to further the healing. Blessings to all! ❤️🙏🌿
Lovely to see this! The friend I used to hike with pointed this plant out to me and said his grandparents would make him a mullein mixture for his asthma when he was a child. He swore by it.
Thank you 🙏💕😊
Thanks. Love hearing this!
@@DinaFalconi Tnankyou xxx
@@DinaFalconi x
Hilarious, I clicked this and an ad for poison asthma medicine came on 🙄 So happy to be natural and constantly learning how to naturally heal myself and my family. What a wonderful video. I love mullein, I have been searching and searching for it the past year, I found it the year before last but haven't had any luck since then. Thankfully I had saved some and was able to help my dad (a lifelong smoker) him and my mom were sick and mullein cleared their lungs up so quickly.
Ha, interesting ad placement... and glad you found mullein helpful. Not sure where you are, but mullein is pretty common, so thinking you'll find some this growing season.
@@DinaFalconi Central Louisiana, I surely hope that I find some
Yes, looks like you should find it where you are according to this Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) distribution amp: plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=VETH
This person just declared medicine to be poison.
Please don’t shoot up a school.
Yeah mullein is so beneficial. I remember when I through a lung scare and needed to find out a way to help heal my lungs. Too many years of smoking cigarettes. I was taking the supplement but I'm a huge believer of using the herb themselves freshly made tonics or teas. God bless I pray we all get to healthy living myself included. God bless 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲❤️❤️❤️
Thanks!
Dina, I received my bag of mullein from Amazon a few days ago. Immediately did your recipe for the tea. It's not a bad tasting tea. I'm at the tail end of a respiratory infection (again) and want this to end. So I drank the tea. It has helped with the residual shortness of breath. The doctor told me even though you kill bacterial pneumonia or bronchitis with meds, there is still a debris field in your lungs. Great.
The first night I was up all night coughing up mucus. So much my throat was sore. The next day I lived in the bathroom. That's all I'll say.
I would think mullein is also some sort of diuretic and maybe has a laxatative effect. I'm going to keep drinking it though. I want my life back.
Hello Debbie, thank you for sharing your experience here! Wishing you good health.
how did it go?? i want to try mullein too
Any update?
😵
Honeybee colonies depend heavily on common mullein’s beautiful, yellow blooms for pollen and nectar in the early fall here in NC. Now I know there is a human use as well! Support your local beekeepers by planting mullein and buying their honey!
Yes, thanks! Mullein is so beautiful; would love to see it everywhere.
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Hi there! I'm actually a bee researcher, mullein may be beneficial for honey bees but is in fact an invasive species. Please use mullein but do not plant it- plant natives to support the honey bees and hundreds of other wild bee species!
@@NolanAmon Well, then you also know that honeybees are not native to North America either. Some things are beneficial, some are not.
@@NolanAmon invasive??
Says Big Farma?? Because they cannot make $$$?!?!
It’s Medicinal And Beneficial!!
Invasive 🙄
We moved to a new place last spring and much to my delight, there is a good stand of mullein right on the property. I saved plenty seeds.
It's also a good "pioneer" plant. So even if you don't use it medicinally, by all means leave it there and let it do its job helping to improve the soil. From what I've read it will hang around for a few years and when its soil building work is done, it just sort of fades away and lets a new wave of other plants come in.
Yes! Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
The first time I had ever seen them was in 2020, they were all over my city including my backyard and once they died off I haven’t seen them since. It’s a really sad thing. I’m going to buy seeds and replant them myself.
@@TriggaTreDay same cause where do I get them
It’s an invasive exotic species in North America. You really shouldn’t plant it.
@@brandonwood3442 good tip
Thank you, I am a smoker with COPD and trying to quit has been horrendous. I am hoping this will help clear my lungs and make the process of stop smoking easier. I am so glad I happened onto your video. I have hit the like and notification buttons and look forward to seeing more of you. Again thank you very much.
Thank you for your comment. Sending healing wishes your way!
It won't make any difference at all. You are in trouble.
@@NoTaboos ...
maybe y o u are in trouble, since you can't offer any hope!
Sending some Light to you! 🕊️
@Wanda Bennett --
All the best to you! 💗
God bless you! 🙏🕊️
Same!
Wanted you to know IVE FOLLOWED THIS VIDEO FOR 2 YEARS I absolutely appreciate the knowledge and I keep bulk mullein just for winter maintenance THANK YOU
Thank you, and so glad!
I steep mine in a coffee filter (about 2 tbl spoons) as needed. I tie it off with a bread tie. Sometimes I add Dandelion and red clover.
Thanks for sharing!
Aim True great idea!!
Thanks for the coffee filter tip!
East tennessee has these popping up everywhere. Amazing plant. Crazy thing is the mullein is almost polite in the fact that it has grown on the outside of my gardens. It loves my organic soil but needs space from the plants in the garden. It grows from the bottom side of my raised beds. It will have you taking deep breathes in a week.
Ha, thanks for your comment!
For the smokers out there it works great that way as well. Smoking it applies it directly to the lungs and helps almost immediately.
Good to have your comment here.
Does it help with COPD?
Thanks for answering 💐
@@MyLove-qi6lg yes, big time! I gave it to 2 people to try. 1 with astgma and 1 with copd. Both were amazed at how it opened up their airway immediately. They both smoked it. Drinking is also very effective, but takes a little longer to work. Only smoke it if in acute respiratory distress for immediate results. It will stop an asthma attack in its tracks
@@jennirenfer2578 thank you very much for answering 💐
I have 13 mullein plants growing at present.
Lucky!
Mullein, elecampane, marshmallow, Licorice & decaffeinated green tea is my favorite. (Omit Licorice if you have H.B.P.)
Thank you!
What is HBP?
@@AE-yt4lx That is High blood pressure
Licorice is good for low blood pressure and hibiscus is good for high blood pressure so if you have hbp just use hibiscus instead of licorice, another herb that is also useful is lungwort.
...I smoke mullein. It feels so good in my lungs.
Thanks for your comment.
Myself I take a few puffs of it on a pipe and it soothes immediately. Can't wait to try this and check out the effects.
For small batches of teas I use coffee filters to strain and sometimes make tea bags cutting to size and either tying or stapling shut, just another option if needed.
Thanks for your input.
When you smoke it, do you need to use any kind of filter?
@@tatzja8074 I don't but I smoke a pipe anyway. It can be harsh, a little hot, so I take very light puffs, so little I barely blow any smoke but it doesn't take much. It's something everyone has to figure out their own technique. I've read some just use it as an incense so that might tell us how little it takes.
I dry it and tear off about a square inch of leaf, crumble it in my pipe and start with barely lighting it. After it's dried it still stays pliable, soft, but you can still crumble it and it burns. Myself I go slow.and inhale deep. You'll be impressed. It works better than any inhaler I've ever used to help breathe and to soothe irritation.
@@danielslagle6440 can you buy it or do you have to grow it?
@@anniecallahan3945 I think I've seen it for sale online, but I just find some growing around somewhere and pick it, throw it in a mesh bag and let it hang in the house and dry. I'm in Central Oklahoma.
I like to breath in the warm steam when I make a mullien tea, I also add a bit of sage. It is also very pleasant to smoke, very soft and a nice taste. Im not a smoker generally, but I believe it can help cut down on smoking cigarettes. Mullien was used years ago in Ireland to treat Tuberculosis. It is my favorite wild plant, Im blessed to have it growing on my own property.
Thank you, good to hear your thoughts about mullein. Are you Ireland?
I LOVE HOW OLD SCHOOL YOUR KITCHEN LOOKS , BADASS !!!! ❤
Ha, thanks for appreciating my kitchen!
i have tons of great mullein all over my orchard. i absolutely love this beautiful and useful plant. it is one of the best soil builders around. i use it in my liquid fertilizer as well. always blows me away that most people consider it a weed and dump chemicals all over it and kill it.
Thanks for your comment. Cool to know that you use it as a liquid fertilizer-how do you make it?
@@DinaFalconi i have a 55gal barrel i put in as many commonly known "weeds" like nettle, mullein, dandelion, and pretty much any other local plant. add leaf mold, i have a lot of wild turkeys around and use their poop in there as well (you can use chicken poo, rabbit poo or any other animal that has a natural, or wild diet. let it sit for a couple of months. then you can use the resulting tea as a 1:10 or more dilution on your plants. it gets kind of stinky and it is best if you can propagate it over winter. i have my barrels dug under ground next to my underground greenhouse so they do not freeze. there are many vids on youtube showing many variations to the theme. the key point is to use local materials available where you are. as i propagate many herbs and plants most call weeds in my orchard, i have a very rich and free source of fertilizer. i have not purchased fertilizer for several decades. and grow 90% of what i eat and still have enough to feed some to neighbors 🙂
I smoke some every day. About half hour later cough up all sorts of stuff and breath alot better. Make tea too. Love Mullein!! Great Video!!
Thank you for your comment and details!
I love making mullein tea with some honey and a pinch of ginger too. Sometimes I'll just do mullein and put a slice of lemon and add honey with it it's so good!! Thank you so much for the video!!
Thanks for your comment. Please enjoy the rest of the channel and all the videos.
I just love her whole wooden linen vibe!
Mullein has definitely worked for me after recovering from COVID. My chest feels less whizzy after and the cough is calm for hours. Seriously guys strain with a fine cloth..don't skip that part. Metal strainers won't catch the hairs...trust me. Lol, or find out for yourself. Cheers!
Thanks! Good to hear your experience here.
Mullein is fantabulous..my husband was healed in 2 days..I love it for asthma
Thanks for sharing.
You have such an incredibly soothing energy that I am so grateful for right now.
-recently diagnosed asthmatic
Thank you for your comment!
I'm here because I got a virus in one lung, on Dec 1, it is 6 mos later and I still have a cough. I see I have many mullein plants coming up, so here I am, hoping this will be the solution to the cough.
Thanks for your comment. Sending healing wishes to you!
I've found that placing the mullein into 2-3 tea bags works very well. Eliminates the need to strain, so all that's left is to squeeze the tea bags. I also add 4 ginger tea bags to the mix. Two magical herbs!!
Thanks for your comment and sharing your techniques.
@@DinaFalconi 😃
Hi,@@DinaFalconi. Would you happen to know how much mullein powder is equal to 3 tbsp of the leaf? The price of the bulk leaf has skyrocketed and the powder is much more affordable. The leaf is anywhere from twice to 20 times more than what I've been paying. Thank you!!
Who is selling the powder? I have not heard of mullein being powdered....it's a very fluffy leaf and very hard to powder. Still, you can figure out measurements by weighing, better than using volume to measure.@@MsSlimFace
@@DinaFalconi ok. Thanks. Monterey Herb Co, from which I was getting leaf through Amazon. Now out of stock on both sites. It was $14.99 lb. Now I'm seeing as much as $10+ more than that for one ounce!! Powder is $10.80 lb plus shipping direct from Monterey. Thanks again...I should have realized a lb is a lb; just haven't bought the powder yet and was trying to guess by bulk.
I brought a couple long flower tops from work to my yard. Now I grow Mullein all over my yard. Been using it for a couple years now. Thanks for your excellent videos.
Thanks, good to know!
I love this information, thanks for sharing the steps for how to work with Mullein as a tea. I made this today and felt I immediately benefited. Breathing more easily and feeling calmer.
Thanks for appreciating the info! Glad!
FWIW, I make mullein tea in our espresso maker. I put a tea bag of some kind of tea in the bottom of the little stainless steel coffee holder to filter out any of the fuzz on the leaves (Lipton Black Tea bags works fine, I just remove the string with tag on them) and then I 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 heated mullein just sit and 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.
So, the main take away is I use a lot of mullein for just one cup of tea. It tastes a lot better and, as I've mentioned, you can really feel it, and it feels really good.
I'll add that the mullein I'm using right now is now over a year old and it's still very good. I harvested a bunch of mullein and dried it and crushed in up and filled several big ziplock bags with it and put them in our kitchen cupboard. So it will last a long time. I recently read it will lose it's potency over time but it's pretty slow if it does.
Thanks for sharing your experience here!
New to channel. After 2 years of coughing, many cough drops, and suppressants, I ran across this video, and we gave it a try, and in 3 days it took care of the cough. It is truly amazing, almost to good to be true. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Thanks for sharing your experience here with us! Good to know.
Holy shit this is hundred percent a bot😂
@@DinaFalconineed of it, where can get it
I just got some dried Mullein Leaf Tea today! Definitely gonna let a stronger infusion sit overnight and drink in the morning!!! I'm even thinking of adding ginger root to a jar!
Good to know!
Test it on your skin first. Do a scrape test and see if you get a bump. I am highly allergic to this stuff unfortunately. Glad I tested myself first! Lots of people have great success with Mullein though! Definitely worth a try! 😊
Thank you for this info!
Thank you for your shared experience! I used Mullien tincture 3x daily followed with a spoonful of raw honey when my husband came home very sick from work with a high fever…he tested positive for Covid a month ago. We both took it and every day he got a little better instead of worse and l did not come down with it. In one week he was back to normal. I have autoimmune issues and this was Amazing! We drink tea a few times a week for immune health during this cold and flu season. Mullein is a Gift from up High and Mother Gaia! ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your experience here! And agreed: "Mullein is a Gift from up High and Mother Gaia! "
I love things like this, plants that are considered weeds by many are actually quite interesting
Thanks, yes, so true. So much of my work and my book Foraging & Feasting is about celebrating this exact theme: "weeds" that are used for food and medicine. If you are interested, more about my book on my site here: www.botanicalartspress.com/
For Covid I used mullein, echinacea leaf (didn’t have root), and when temp cooled down enough not to destroy vitamin C I added rose hips and hibiscus.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
There has been zero evidence that mullein is a effective treatment of Covid. This is not a replacement for treatemenr or vaccines.
Thank you for this simple explanation! I have tons of mullen I need to use but wasn't sure how until now. Thanks!
Welcome and glad this was helpful and motivating!
@@DinaFalconi can the leaves be fresh and if so how much?
@@tarabrenner3293 you can also let it set for 24 hours and drink it the next day. Thats a nurshing infushion shes making. So your getting more of the nutrition out of it. A tincture is better for your lungs. Not saying this isnt good to. Because it is for nutrition. And and if your making an infushion make sure you drink it with in the first 3 to 4 days after its sets for 24 hours because it will go bad. Kinda like tea goes bad. A tincture wont go bad and it will last you a long time. Its super simple to make. If you like things like this look up( she is of the woods). Shes really great at explaining things. Also (herbal jedi) is really good to. They both do these free classes for everyone.
@@jenniferriley3589 Thank you @jennifer Riley for this information .
mullein is an amazing plant for lung disease FACT! also lungwort, and a little cheap device called air-physio, thanks for the great video ❤❤
Thanks for your comment here.
so useful, thank you. discovered mullein last year for a cough that lasted forever. and now know its power. i bought small tea bags off of amazon and they were expensive. this seems better, the way you're doing it. thx for sharing
Thanks for your comment.
I just bought seeds to grow this myself. Excited to learn about it and really interested in making my own medicine. I just made black walnut tincture, too.
Sounds great!
What parts of the black walnut did you use for your tincture?
@@teebee9735 the green shell has this black paste on the inside. Use that part, but remove the “walnut seed”.
@@TriggaTreDay - Awesome! Thank you So much for your time to answer me! 😊
Just subscribed. Thank you. Your info was excellent but I could listen to you read the phone book and thoroughly enjoy it. Your voice is so warm and inviting and mellow. Look forward to learning from you but I am not kidding when I say that I look forward to hearing from you as well. Greetings from the western end of Tennessee.
Thanks for subscribing, and for your appreciative words. Be well!
Glad to see your video recommended to me. Edgar Cayce recommended Mullein stupes and teas for varicose veins, also.
Thanks for your comment.
I make tea 🫖 with it and drink twice a week. Easy Percy and two years thank god no chest cold!! I had very weak lungs before but not any more. Love it and it taste just fine.
Thanks for sharing! Good to know.
by the way, i absolutely love your vids. i started studying herbal medicine in the early 80's and really love the way you teach. to the point and without a bunch of fluff none-sense.
Thanks for appreciating the videos! Please enjoy the channel!
My people used to smoke it, and yes it helps to clear your lungs and all your flem will loosen up. It is a beautiful plant, also can be used for other things. Thank you for your video, nice job.
Thank you for sharing. Please say more about who your people are?
I like to mix mine, with dried goldenrod leaves. Also I've heard that Mullen is better when picked from the first year plant the Rosette. I've always just brewed my like tea, letting it sit for 15 minutes or so. But I like this method I'm going to give it a try. Thank you I enjoyed the video
Nice, mullein and goldenrod combo. Yes, best to pick leaf when in basal rosette (1st year, or 2nd year before flower). Thanks for your comment.
@@DinaFalconi thanks for clarifying that. We have both mature flowering mullein (from which I saved seed last summer) and new ones coming up on our little homestead.
Best to pick the leaves higher up on the stalk on 2nd year plants so the seeds are still able to spread and the medicine is still potent. As the plant grows taller the larger lower leaves produce less and less medicinal properties and focus on vegetative growth and photosynthesis
@Seymour Kalinski thank you for the heads up I will definitely remember it.
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@DinaFalconi announce days the rosette. Im confused🤔
Your camera person did a great job. Thanks for your helpful video!
Thank you! Yes, the camera person / filmmaker is amazing!
This is an excellent video. So glad I found this channel. Thank you. I had a chest cold and took mullein liquid . It was cleared up very fast . I ordered one pound of dried tea from Amazon . I just made the tea as she is showing.
Thank you for your comment!
Gramma grew it in her flower garden. Shed have 1st & 2nd yr plants then the 3rd yr plants with the tall stalk is what she harvested. The leaves were dried & the blooms put in oil to steep in a sunny window for ear ache drops. She loved the tall stalks against the back wall of that garden. She always was sure to leave enough blooms intact to reseed for the yrs to come.
Thanks for sharing! Where, regionally, was your gramma's garden? Do you know what species of Verbascum she grew?
@DinaFalconi in Midwest Michigan & whatever wild variety grows locally is what she grew from. She collected the smallest ones from around the farm & started her flower garden with all medicinal plants she could collect. We didn't have far to go for our meds.
Thanks, love that! @@lanetpresler423
This was recommended this on my fyp, and I don't know why, but I Learnt something new today.
Glad!
This is extremely useful information. I just need to figure out where to buy some, I've never heard of this miracle plant! Thank you so much for sharing this with the community ❤️
Welcome! Hoping you can forage for your own in the growing season. Please view our other mullein videos where I show you how to ID, harvest and find this supportive friend. Links to those are here: th-cam.com/video/djEItd4eAEA/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/Iyt67On1Mhw/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/QHLPZXFB4h0/w-d-xo.html To purchase, you can check out Jeans Greens Herbal Tea Works.
Check and see if you have a herbal store in your area. We have a store called wholesale nutrition that has every dried herb you could ever want. They order from mountain rose herbs I think.
Ebay I got 2 ounces coming to me for 8 bucks
Excellent..... i boil my dried mullein along with Turkey Tail fungus and cinnamon in stainless herb ball. Love it!!
Thanks for your comment!
"ALWAYS check with your health care provider...my sharing is never in place of getting appropriate medical attention"
Well now I'm a fan, I've treated myself for a lot of things after a lot of research was done, but I will always respect the idea of asking someone who literally has a degree in the field of study. I love that you inform your viewers responsibly, a lot of people think they know enough to tell complete strangers to ignore what their doctors told them, and a lot of people have probably been seriously injured or maybe even died from following the advice of people who _feel_ like they know but don't value the opinion of a medical professional that _actually_ knows. Practically speaking, you know much much more about your body than your doctor does, but this does not replace their expertise and ability to properly advise you.
This is also something TH-cam channel owners have to mention, otherwise, TH-cam will give them a strike on their page.
Yes!
She informs her viewers because you have to or else it’s against youtube guidelines lmao if she didn’t have to im sure she wouldn’t have said that because she knows how great & natural this herb is for you
I've been making and drinking mullein tea for many years and I only strain it and press it through a metal strainer no cheesecloth etc and never have had any problem with the hairs... I also include dandelion leaves and plantain leaves and I feel like Superman after drinking:-)
Thanks! Appreciate hearing your experience here!
Holy Cow, what an instructive clear video, particularly on the dosing it takes. Like a whole handful of mullein leaves (and maybe flowers too) do a long non-boily infusion, then wring out all the goodness from the mullein leaves in some kind of (hopefully natural) cheesecloth bag. I've never taken enough of any such thing natural, so it seems. Hmm, huh?
Thanks for your comment! No flowers in this infusion. Be well!
@@DinaFalconi Hence why we need to grow abundance, to keep our buns dancing, the world over.
Thank you my sister. God made the 🌿 herbs for to help heal us. Great share.
Welcome.
I've heard dandelion root tea and stinging nettle tea is also good for asthmatics. I have chronic bronchitis and severe asthma and this year, I am going to start trying these various plants to help. It's pricey but so are my meds. If I can get off most of my meds - it's worth it
Thanks for you comment. Also you can forage for these plants. I share this info on this TH-cam channel. Good luck and with your healing journey.
Mullein with garlic ear drops are amazing!!!!
This is great for any respiratory problem.
Excellent video!
Thanks for your comment.
could you please explain
I dry mine in a mesh washing type bag and every time I go past it hanging up I give it a little shake so that by the time I am ready to use it the fine hairs are all gone 😊
Thanks, interesting.
Thank you so much for your essential advise( beeng myself from Karpathian region of Ukraine and always relying on natural herbal remedies) I am so thrilled to learn curative / medicinal herb that are used here in US. Thank you so much! This will help me to rid of chronical bronchitis!!!🙏
Hello Olga, most welcome. Please enjoy the rest of the videos on the channel!
The plant is originally from Europe
Just to say that I love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. All the best for the new year!
Grateful for your feedback!!! thank you for viewing.
Thank you ! I saw wild mullein growing on the side of the interstate in Alabama just the other day! It was so cool
Welcome!
Mullein does love interstates and highways!
You may need to be careful to not pick from a highway/roadway because of how our states spray chemicals to kill the plants, it could be in that kind of a place and those chemicals kill plants just think of what they could do to humans. Just a thought.
@@wvbonbonqueen Yes and that’s a good thought thanks
@@Wendy-zl8kv You are welcome. I have heard that about Dandelion and other Greens that I like to pick so it would also apply to Mullein too I would think. Have a great weekend.
I have started my herbal journey an this was very helpful! Thank you!!
So glad! Enjoy the herbal journey.
Thanks for the video. You're a very effective speaker! I love the way your hands seem to be so naturally emotive when you talk.
Welcome and thank you for appreciating!
Lemon balm is a herb that I grow every year as it has many positive benefits and helps with taste, there is also a herb called lungwort that is worth checking out
Thanks, good to read your comment. Do you use lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)? I grow it, but don't consume it.
Thank you so much for your work here. From my perspective only:
it behoves all of us to provide our bodies with optimal nutrition during
any sickness or disease.... or better yet, all of the time. This video
helps educate and in no way suggests one should depart from any
suggested medical procedure(s) as currently offered. 🌈
Thank you! Yes, totally agree with your comment here.
You are amazing and a blessing to many!!! Thank you for sharing this with us. God bless you ma’am. Again thank you 🙏🏽😊
Welcome!
I love Mullein. TY for the video. Very enlightening! I've been drinking Mullein tea for about 3 months now & don't remember my lungs feeling better for yrs. (I'm a former smoker & was diagnosed with emphasyma in the 90s) My breathing only got really bad a few months ago, hence, the Mullein tea regime. lol. I'm not a gardener & wouldn't recognize it if I found it in my soup, so I bought some on Amazon. I've been making a cup of tea (1 heaping tbsn & cup of boiling water) 2x/day. I've only let it steep from 15-30 mins. Now that I've watched you, I feel like I may be missing out on some benefits, so might have to approach this daily ritual a bit differently. I've also been taking 1/4 tsp Nattokinase daily as well & oil of oregeno 3X/day, a few times/month.
Thank you for your detailed comment!
How do you use the oil of oregano? Do you ingest it? And how much do you use?
@@jennirenfer2578 - it can be ingested, just be sure to use food safe Oil of oregano and not essential oil of oregano. You can make your own Oil of oregano by taking quality fresh (or dried) clean and dry (must be dry or it will mold!) oregano and stuffing a canning jar (doesn't have to be a big one) full but leave about an inch, or so, from the top, then fill the jar with a quality food oil (olive oil is a good choice). Put the lid on it and place in a cupboard (not too warm and not cold), for several days (like two weeks) but be sure to shake the jar once a day. Strain your now infused oil into a clean dry jar and use sparingly (a few drops at a time!) until you know how it affects you. Best of luck to you!
@@teebee9735 wow! Thank you so much!
@@jennirenfer2578 I take 3- 5 drops under my tongue, let it sit 30 seconds, then gulp down about an ounce or 2 of water. I buy "Wild Oregano C93" by "New Roots" through Amazon. Usual precautions ie: don't use when pregnant or breast-feeding etc. (under little lift-up tab on bottle) The taste is very strong & somewhat burns, so you may want to start off with 3 & work up to 5 drops. Hope it helps you as much as it's helped me.
Watching from Beverly, MA, U. S. A. 🇺🇸 Love watching Dina! Mullen is quite strong! Works wonders!
Thanks for your comment!
Nice to hear that ature loves us!
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family MD told us that kids are getting covid induced asthma. experienced this with a family member. we used Mullein and it made a huge difference. of course we used other supplements (food and herb based). we didn't want to use steroids because I think part of the problem is adrenal related, so the steroid therapy would help initially but may cause longer term issues. Mullein was not only great at helping relieve the asthmatic symptoms but also improved the condition. thank you for the video.
Thank you for sharing these details! Good to know.
The color of the end product is so beautiful!!! I use Mullien. I use Tea Bags though. Wild Cherry Bark is close in color I would say Hyssop; but, it's a little darker in shade. Baical Skullcap is in that range of coloring. I would love to prepare them this way👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💙💙💙
Thanks for sharing your thoughts here!
Thank you so much i love your direction your presentation is very clear and you get right to the point im following you!!!
Thank you! Please enjoy the rest of the video's on the channel!
Excellent recipe! I’ll definitely make it. Thank you thank you 🎉
Welcome!
Just subscribed! Thank you! I have mullien and have been making tea with it but didn't know to let it steep for four hours. It's been helping but would be much more effective after steeping for a longer time. Love this herb...ordering seeds to plant my own.
Thanks, and enjoy! Glad you are going to grow and harvest your own.
This is news to me but such good health knowledge. Thanks so much, Sis! And I love you calm tone and your unique timbre of your voice. Beautiful, fam ❤
Hello Nicole, thanks for your comment! I appreciate your feedback.
I remember learning about mullein via Dr. Sebi. Great stuff!
Glad.
It loves to grow in disturbed soil areas. Where I live it is everywhere in gravel pits and along the sides of hunting roads.
Thanks, yes, indeed!
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I got rid of my covd by smoking this plant! It's so amazing when it's smoked! In my opinion the native Americans didn't just use the peace pipe for tobacco they used it for medicine! More people need to know you can smoke this herb and not just make teas out of it in my opinion!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
I’m going to try this thank you and I love the way you explain everything so smoothly.
Glad! Enjoy.