Verbascum thapsus L.

Common names: Common Mullein
Species details (USDA): USDA VETH

Documented uses

99 uses documented
Abnaki Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, pages 171)
Abnaki Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, pages 155)
Abnaki Drug, Toothache Remedy detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, pages 154)
Abnaki Drug, Toothache Remedy detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, pages 171)
Abnaki Drug, Toothache Remedy detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, pages 155)
Atsugewi Drug, Antirheumatic (Internal) detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Antirheumatic (Internal) detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Diaphoretic detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Atsugewi Drug, Unspecified detail... (Garth, Thomas R., 1953, Atsugewi Ethnography, Anthropological Records 14(2):140-141, pages 140)
Catawba Drug, Analgesic detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, pages 190)
Catawba Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, pages 190)
Catawba Drug, Orthopedic Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, pages 190)
Catawba Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, pages 190)
Catawba Drug, Pulmonary Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, pages 190)
Cherokee Drug, Analgesic detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Gland Medicine detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Gynecological Aid detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Kidney Aid detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy detail... (Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., pages 45)
Cherokee Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy detail... (Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, pages 57)
Creek Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Swanton, John R, 1928, Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #42:473-672, pages 660661)
Creek Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, pages 57)
Delaware Drug, Antirheumatic (External) detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 36)
Delaware Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 36)
Delaware Drug, Pulmonary Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 36)
Delaware Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 36)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Analgesic detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 30, 31)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Antirheumatic (External) detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 30, 80)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 80)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 30, 31)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Pulmonary Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 30, 80)
Delaware, Oklahoma Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 30, 80)
Delaware, Ontario Drug, Analgesic detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 66, 82)
Delaware, Ontario Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 66)
Hopi Drug, Anticonvulsive detail... (Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, pages 33, 92)
Hopi Drug, Psychological Aid detail... (Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, pages 92)
Hopi Drug, Witchcraft Medicine detail... (Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, pages 92)
Iroquois Drug, Anticonvulsive detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Antidiarrheal detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Blood Medicine detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Ear Medicine detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Febrifuge detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 433)
Iroquois Drug, Hemorrhoid Remedy detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 433)
Iroquois Drug, Laxative detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 431)
Iroquois Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Orthopedic Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Iroquois Drug, Pediatric Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 431)
Iroquois Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 431)
Iroquois Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, pages 57)
Iroquois Drug, Toothache Remedy detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 431)
Iroquois Drug, Tuberculosis Remedy detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 432)
Isleta Other, Ceremonial Items detail... (Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, pages 44)
Isleta Other, Smoke Plant detail... (Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, pages 44)
Malecite Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, pages 246)
Malecite Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, pages 248)
Menominee Drug, Pulmonary Aid detail... (Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, pages 53)
Menominee Other, Smoke Plant detail... (Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, pages 53)
Micmac Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, pages 63)
Micmac Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, pages 63)
Mohegan Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Carr, Lloyd G. and Carlos Westey, 1945, Surviving Folktales & Herbal Lore Among the Shinnecock Indians, Journal of American Folklore 58:113-123, pages 118)
Mohegan Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, pages 270)
Mohegan Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 77, 132)
Mohegan Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 77, 132)
Mohegan Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, pages 265)
Mohegan Drug, Throat Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, pages 77, 132)
Mohegan Drug, Throat Aid detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, pages 265)
Nanticoke Drug, Febrifuge detail... (Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, pages 56, 84)
Navajo Drug, Veterinary Aid detail... (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, pages 156)
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, pages 45)
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Febrifuge detail... (Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, pages 45)
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Psychological Aid detail... (Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, pages 45)
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Strengthener detail... (Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, pages 45)
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Veterinary Aid detail... (Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, pages 45)
Ojibwa Drug, Heart Medicine detail... (Arnason, Thor, Richard J. Hebda and Timothy Johns, 1981, Use of Plants for Food and Medicine by Native Peoples of Eastern Canada, Canadian Journal of Botany 59(11):2189-2325, pages 2304)
Penobscot Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., 1917, Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists Pp. 303-321, pages 310)
Potawatomi Drug, Respiratory Aid detail... (Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, pages 83, 84)
Potawatomi Drug, Stimulant detail... (Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, pages 83, 84)
Rappahannock Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., R.B. Hassrick and E.S. Carpenter, 1942, Rappahannock Herbals, Folk-Lore and Science of Cures, Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science 10:7-55., pages 28)
Rappahannock Drug, Orthopedic Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., R.B. Hassrick and E.S. Carpenter, 1942, Rappahannock Herbals, Folk-Lore and Science of Cures, Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science 10:7-55., pages 28)
Rappahannock Drug, Veterinary Aid detail... (Speck, Frank G., R.B. Hassrick and E.S. Carpenter, 1942, Rappahannock Herbals, Folk-Lore and Science of Cures, Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science 10:7-55., pages 28)
Salish Drug, Tuberculosis Remedy detail... (Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, pages 293)
Shinnecock Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Carr, Lloyd G. and Carlos Westey, 1945, Surviving Folktales & Herbal Lore Among the Shinnecock Indians, Journal of American Folklore 58:113-123, pages 118)
Thompson Drug, Cold Remedy detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 287)
Thompson Drug, Cough Medicine detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 287)
Thompson Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 287)
Thompson Other, Ceremonial Items detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 287)
Thompson Other, Smoke Plant detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 287)
Zuni Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, pages 378)
Zuni Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, pages 378)

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