Healerwitch's Garden
Mullein
Genus: Verbascum.
Species: Verbascum thapsus.
This is a biennial plant. The first year the plant is a rosette of leaves that hug the ground. The second year it puts up a stalk on which the flowers grow.
It can be used in an infused oil for ear infection in children. You would infuse the flowers (dried or fresh) in olive oil. To use you would warm the oil and place one to five drops into the ear canal. Block the ear with cotton.
The seeds are believed to be poisonous, so use care in use.
Native Americans used the smoke for the treatment of asthma.
