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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> Subject:      Re: Information on patent medicines
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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)
>
>  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
>   >>
>
> 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