mullein

Herbal medicine
A biennial herb that contains flavonoids, glycosides (aucubin), mucilage, saponins and volatile oil, which is anti-inflammatory, diuretic, expectorant and sedative. Mullein is used to treat respiratory conditions (such as asthma, bronchitis, colds and whooping cough), insomnia, urinary tract infections and rheumatic pain; it has been used topically for skin inflammation and infections, haemorrhoids, and earaches.

Toxicity
Mullein should not be used in patients with cancer, as it has cancer-promoting activity; it should not be used in pregnancy or while nursing, as the seeds are toxic.

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In this fig the Verbascum thapsus has second place in the wound healing and tensile strength.

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Anatomic Studies on Verbascum pestalozzae Boiss. and Verbascum pycnostachyum Boiss. & Heldr./Verbascum pestalozzae Boiss. ve Verbascum pycnostachyum Boiss. & Heldr. Uzerinde Anatomik Arastirmalar

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VERBASCUM 'GAINSBOROUGH' This is a wonderful friendly summer plant - big architectural silvery leaves that are almost like wings and from them shoot a central spire which, in time, produces candyfloss yellow flowers.

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Take root cuttings from |oriental poppies, acanthus, verbascum, Primula denticulata and Phlox paniculata.

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which plants to which plants to propagate now propagate now VERBASCUM CHAIXII X 'COTSWOLD BEAUTY'' Some verbascums are monocarpic, dying after flowering and making seed.

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