Wild Girl holding a mullein leaf & smoking it with lemon balm You can find mullein in sunny, disturbed waste places like roadsides. Native American tribes historically smoked the dried leaves of the fuzzy plant, known by its Latin name Verbascum thapsus, for an array of healing uses. The Navajo used it to cure fevers; [...]
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Mullein: Smokable medicine
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Lemonbalm, mullein, Wildcrafting on January 19, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Code Breaking, Herb Style
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Lemonbalm, Plant Identification on December 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lemonbalm What if you could walk up to a plant you’ve never seen before and know immediately what it is and what it can do for you? This isn’t the stuff of fantasy — it’s really possible! The botanist Thomas J. Elpel is known for his “Botany In A Day” books about the secret tricks [...]
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