Yellow Mullein At Wood River by Joyce Dickens - Royalty Free and Rights Managed Licenses

Joyce Dickens

Klamath Falls, OR

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Yellow Mullein At Wood River

Artist

Joyce Dickens

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Photograph - Fine Art Photography

Description

Shot on a trip to the Wood River, Oregon 2019.

The tall stems of Mullein, covered in fine down, were once burned as tapers in funeral processions. Dioscorides used the herb for scorpion stings, eye complaints, toothache, tonsillitis and coughs. It was also traditionally taken for wasting diseases such as tuberculosis. An infused oil made from the flowers was a standby in many parts of Europe for ailments as diverse as hemorrhoids and ear infections.

Parts used:

Flowers
A relaxing expectorant for dry, chronic, hard coughs such as in whooping cough, tuberculosis, asthma, and bronchitis. The flowers are also effective for throat inflammations. Still made today, the infused oil is used to soothe inflammations, wounds, and earache. Harvest the flowers individually.

Leaves
Used mainly for respiratory disorders, the leaves were at one time made into herbal tobacco and smoked for asthma and tuberculosis. Traditionally, the plant was regarded as antiseptic and the large leaves produced in the second season were wrapped around fruits to preserve them. Harvest before flowering in the second year.

Flowers and leaves are not often separated in commercially dried Mullein; leaves are generally predominate.

Pedanius Dioscorides was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of De Materia Medica-a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years. Wikipedia
Born: 40 AD, Anazarbus, Turkey
Died: 90 AD