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Carl Steen writes that mullein is non-native. Some is, some isn't. If you go
to Moerman's site you can get the proper taxons. I just didn't want to
burden thelist with needless Latin.
John Dendy
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> In a message dated 6/6/2000 1:22:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> << Allen,
> Tantaquidgeon, Gladys 1972 Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related
> Algonkian Indians. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission
> Anthropological Papers #3 (33)
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> poke root, mullein leaves, wild cherry and black cohosh barks for
> rheumatism.
> great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for lung
> trouble
> great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for catarrh.
>
> I got this information from Moerman's American Indian Ethnobotany
> database
> on the Net. A very comprehensive and inclusive resource.
>
> John Dendy
> Archeologist
> Dynamac Corporation
> Fort Riley, KS
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> Allen--a point I meant to make but omitted, is that mullein is a species
> introduced by European settlers. Another name for it is "Englishman's
> Foot"
> which I believe is of Indian derivation. It is so called because it is a
> commensal species found on old house sites and fields. Again, not much
> help
> on the patent medicines, but didn't someone advertise an annotated
> bibliography of these a while back? Smoke Pfeiffer maybe? Should be on the
> histarch archives.
>
> Carl Steen
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