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Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Hopi Drug, Anticonvulsive
Leaves smoked with onosmodium for 'fits,' craziness and witchcraft.
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 33, 92
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Hopi Drug, Psychological Aid
Compound of plant smoked by persons not in their 'right mind.'
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 92
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Hopi Drug, Witchcraft Medicine
Compound of plant smoked as cure for persons 'with power to charm.'
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 92
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Iroquois Drug, Anticonvulsive
Dried leaves smoked for bad hiccoughs.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 432
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Iroquois Drug, Respiratory Aid
Dried leaves smoked for catarrh and asthma.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 431
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Iroquois Drug, Tuberculosis Remedy
Dried leaves smoked for consumption.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 432
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Malecite Drug, Respiratory Aid
Plants smoked and used for catarrh.
Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 248
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Menominee Other, Smoke Plant
Leaf gathered and smoked as an Indian tobacco.
Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 53
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Mohegan Drug, Respiratory Aid
Dried leaves smoked for asthma.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 77, 132
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Mohegan Drug, Respiratory Aid
Leaves smoked for asthma.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, page 265
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Mohegan Drug, Throat Aid
Dried leaves smoked for sore throat.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 77, 132
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Mohegan Drug, Throat Aid
Leaves smoked for sore throat.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, page 265
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Navajo Drug, Veterinary Aid
Plants 'lighted and smoked for worms in sheep's nose.'
Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 156
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Cough Medicine
Leaves smoked for cough.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 45
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Febrifuge
Leaves smoked for fever.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 45
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Psychological Aid
Dried leaves smoked in corn husk 'to clear the mind if lost.'
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 45
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Penobscot Drug, Respiratory Aid
Dried, powdered leaves smoked for asthma.
Speck, Frank G., 1917, Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists Pp. 303-321, page 310
Verbascum thapsus L.
Common Mullein
USDA VETH
Potawatomi Drug, Respiratory Aid
Dried leaves smoked in a pipe for asthma and smudged leaves inhaled for catarrh.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 83, 84