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Mullein is a powerful pulmonary healer, used for cough (kennel cough), pneumonia, pleuritis, bronchitis, tuberculosis and asthma. It is also used for diarrhea, bleeding of the bowels and cramps. The dried downy leaves are used in an infusion - one handful to a pint of water. The tea must be well strained and the fluffy down shouldn't be allowed into your eyes or inhaled while handling the dry herb. Mullein is also infused into oil (olive or sunflower) to use warm in the ears of dogs, horses and humans for ache or infection (garlic is added to the mixture). If you do ear coning (with hollow candles of linen/cotton and beeswax), Mullein oil dropped into the ears an hour before coning softens the ear wax and sooths the tissues. Do not ear cone animals - it takes too much time and the flame is spooky.
Mullein can be purchased in health food stores as the dry, cut and sifted herb or as infused ear oil already prepared. Give the tea/infusion to a dog with a dropper or small syringe by mouth slowly, a couple of tablespoons at a time every hour for coughing. Dose a horse with a large syringe (60cc catheter tip syringe works well), one to two ounces (30 to 60 cc's) every hour for a cough. Humans drink a cup of tea every hour.
This information has not been evaluated by the FDA. Mullein is a very old medicinal herb. It was used to make candlewicking!
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