Around where I live in Batavia New York we call it Nature's toilet paper and yes it works LOL I've seen people throw firecrackers in the water and the fish would blow up to the top not that it's a good thing that I don't think so. I think it would be good to know if you were really damn hungry that would be the only time I would ever do that
@@emack76 maybe you didn't watch the whole video if I remember correctly he did maybe he did not emphasize it enough. But I think it's a good thing to know to say some day is the end of the world's. You got a lot of people to feed you don't have a fishing pole and you're all starving and boom you got all those fish. And if you did it like the natives do it would not cause harm because you do it every couple years so they can replenish
My grandmother was born and raised on the reservation and she told us about this and explained that it was only used in food emergencies and when fish were to plentiful for the water they were in. Even in the tribe it was forbidden to use it for greed or for selling with heavy penalties. Thanks for sharing this story, take care, love, peace and respect. Blessings 🐟🐟🐋🐟🌱🌱🌱
my grandfather showed me how to use it for fishing and for healing, he was from the Cherokee tribe.and he also had rules about using it for fishing that I followed.i miss him very much.
'forbidden for the purpose of greed or for selling' only emergency use. god ethics, good morals, flawless logic. good rule. as a nation we should only make rules like that.
Weird timing-I was just hand broadcasting Mullein seed I picked straight from the stalk, to help encourage more spread down my driveway this morning. They’re absolutely loaded this year. I have one plant that’s got to be 10ft tall. The blooms are awesome. Such a useful plant.
Mullien has been a lifesaver to me and my family for over 50 years. It is so mild you can make a tea and give it to babies! It cured my kids diarrhea overnight! With honey it soothes a sore throat. Calms a cough. And I first learned about it when hiking/camping in the mountains of New Mexico... as the "toilet paper plant". Some would dry it and mix it with tobacco, to make it last longer. I don't recommend that, but it did us no harm. It grows in my yard when my body needs it. Weird, but true.
Collect the yellow flower pedals put the in a jar layering it with honey or sugar let it sit for a few weeks and you have a very strong cough syrup.....
Another really wonderful decongestant syrup that helps break up mucus/phlegm is making a tea of garlic, onion and ginger then cooking it down with sugar and adding turmeric. It's better than any pharma product i have ever tried.
@@branchingvine I am so going to go find a mullein plant. I've suffered from insomnia my entire life. Respiratory ailments, too. I definitely need this plant. Funny thing is, I've been petting this fuzzy plant since I was a kid. And my family has gathered wild edibles for generations. And as an adult I'm an amateur herbalist. But I only recently learned about the medicine in mullein. 🌱
Nice to know this. It's a great plant. When I have a dry cough, I roll up a mullein joint, smoke it. Within a few hours, I have a productive cough and usually 24 hours, the cough is gone.
Assuming it only stuns them, then that would probably be a really good idea.But from the sounds of it, it sounds like it actually kills most of them. peace! :D
Hahaha. Things are illegal because they work! He is spot on, there. Apply that logic across the board, especially the energy sector, and you'll understand WHY we are not free people.
Its not illegal cus it works its illegal because man will abuse it- not gonna say which man cus we all know. He went on to explain the indians knew it can only be used 1 time per year but greedy men always abuse power
@@williamreilly5469I dunno where you are, but most states where it's legal allow growing enough for personal use. This was true in many states even before it was legal to smoke it! 😂
@@thediplomasta5891what does the energy sector have to do with anything other than having pipelines bust and wreck people's lands and coastal areas? Or coal ash ponds that bust open and wreck several whole fields, for that matter. The fossil fuel industry makes it so it's harder for people to house, feed, and clothe their families. And the nuclear energy sector doesn't build the safe thorium salt baths reactors that CAN'T have a meltdown, by design (it's impossible because of the method the radioactive materials are used for the heat output) rather than the current design that worries so many people. There's hydroelectric and geothermal that are safe, as well, and the only downside of solar is the stuff that must be used to make them & the batteries for them, and at the end of their usable life, is exceedingly dangerous to recycle. There's even biodiesel that is REALLY easy to make! We could be totally energy independent and not use a single drop of petroleum products except to male certain types of plastics that can't be made from plant-based sources. It would be SO easy to do! We could do that TOMORROW if we only had the infrastructure! And every time a certain party wants to build said infrastructure, another party comes along, says no, and starts writing laws to control what people do in their beds, their bathrooms, and their doctors' offices. Small government, my left, hind foot.
Mullein was brought to America from the dirt ballast of boats from Europe and Spain. The flower stalks can be turned in to large candles after dipping it in wax. I dry the leaves and mix it in to my tobacco to roll in to cigarettes. That plant is amazing. It’s also called “poor mans tobacco”
There is a chemical.in mullein that is closely related to nicotine. People trying to quit smoking years ago would smoke cigarettes of dried mullein leaves as a substitute while they tried to quit.
@@christopherlewis1315 God, I hope I'm able to buy forested land in the hills before it happens. I want nothing more than to tuck my kitties and I safely away before then.
It is primarily a LUNG herb. It relaxes the lungs and then helps as an expectorant. Same effect discussed in the video. The leaf is the part used for this. Breathing the smoke is one way to do it or you can make a tea. The root is good for bladder incontinence.
@@luckypenny312 Any way you want to get it into your body. There are MANY different ways you can get someplace.. same with getting herbs into your body. I have also learned that the root can be use for certain back issues. I don't have much info on that.
My mother always had this growing in her front yard in St. Louis. it was always one of the most visually interesting parts of her garden. I now have it in a plot in my yard that I am slowly building into my herbal/medicinal plot.
@@Sunshine_Daydream222 It doesn't seem to. It seems to have naturalized well, occupying spaces that most other plants aren't claiming. It's definitely not an aggressive monoculture species such as Dyers Woad, Thistle, or Whitetop.
I have this plant that’s been growing in my pot and I’ve totally been wondering what it is. I think it’s mullein. So glad I watched this. I’ll let it grow another year and watch for the pods now! Thanks
Buckeye and green walnut shells do it too. Historically my tribe used that. We did it once a year before winter when the water in rivers and streams were low to smoke and dry as much meat and food as possible for the little hunger and big hunger months. After rains and the new year the shallow pools in creeks would be replenished with fish.
@@Y34RZERO Thanks a lot. I live in Denmark. I don't actually know if its allowed here. I have never heard anyone try it, but mullein, buckeye and walnut are abundant. Would it be the shells or the nuts of buckeye that work? If it is the nuts I suppose you would need to cut them up a bit?
Thank you for this useful information. I am a family physician and many of my patients with severe lung conditions, swore by using mullein tea to help their breathing.
Great vid. You can also use the green husks of black walnuts. Step on them to fracture the husk, put them in a toe sack and lower into the water. Fish will be stunned and you can just scoop them up. And you can add the fractured husks to water, pour on the ground and worms will come up.
My grandmother said her dad used the walnut husk truck during the depression... One of the cheap and easy ways to score some meat when times were especially hard.
LOve using dried mullen, I collect it and dry it for the medicine tea. Add red clover blossoms to the tea to make it even better, red clover is the best expectorant ever, brings the congestion up and helps quiet a cough for hours after drinking.. Sweeten with honey to soothe the throat...
Thanks so much for actual information! Mullien dried and crumbled is also good to smoke, especially if you are trying to wean yourself from tobacco. The smoke also has healing properties for the lungs.
Except the burning causes smoke and breathing in smoke is carcinogenic. So, not a good option for weaning yourself of tobacco. On that note I would also say it is bad for your lungs to smoke it, not healing properties...
I believe Jamaican Dogwood was used in the same way. I can say though, as a homeless teenager years ago (not USA), I did try this. I had landowners permission. And yep. I didn't starve is all I can say. I did find you can condense the effect by building some kinds of fish traps and just petrifying whatevers come into your enclosed circle. Grind the seeds into a satchel 'teabag' and it doesn't span out so far and uncontrolled either. However, if you scatter cast it, expect ALOT more fish than you even realised we're there and have a gert freezer to hand.
We called it "button weed" to be political about when you needed it, bc it goes on your butt lol (not to be confused with actual buttonweed which doesnt quite work out as well haha). It was always my go to if I was helping my dad out in the field and had to take a dump but didn't have time or the means to run back to the shop... its honestly better than the finest toilet paper, makes roughin' it not seem so rough 😂
@@surferdude8086 Some refer to all beneficial medicinal plants as she as in "Mother Nature" -- healing which is culturally and historically referenced as feminine like a nurturing mother.
I’m using a mullein blend right now for lung support after having pneumonia. It’s been working so well! I highly recommend it! I’m using Lung support tincture from Sprouts but I recommend mullein tincture from anywhere
In Indiana we used crushed black walnuts that were still green with a little water, pour it over a patch of non-rocky ground and it makes worms come up fast! Rinse them off and keep them in a bowl to fish with. In a pond, you can use it to stun fish, but you would need lots and lots of it, also illegal to use for catching fish.
It grows in Europe too. I consider it highly invasive. It's not an obnoxious weed, but I found one plant and grew it at home. Next year, it was everywhere in the entire neighbourhood and that hasn't changed 20 years later!
I learned as part of my Master Herbalist education about Verbascum thapsus, which is the Latin name for Mullein which is THE GLANDULAR HERB, that it is a wonderful plant! With 3 parts Mullein and 1 part Lobelia inflata, it can help any gland concern, like lung ailments. It can also help abscesses. One time in history and once with a client it healed and mended crushed testicles and split scrotum, by being made into a tea with diustilled water and being applied topically soaked into underware to apply or soaked in a cotton natural fiber cloth and applied. They only grow where they want! Adding fresh Mullein blossoms to an oil such as olive oil, and set in the sun for 14 days, makes Mullein Blossom oil, which is great for pain from earaches, when a few warmed drops are put in the ear canal.
Deborah, That might be when they first sprout. I transplant mine along my property line due to the fact the neighbors will try and kill it by constantly mowing it or putting a herbicide on it. Depending if it's in an open spot or along a fence line.
@@dylanminer3728 You ever change a one year olds diaper? LOL I get it but when I see people drinking alcohol from glass bottles I "KNOW" where that's going and it is going to cut people for decades to come.
Humans don’t digest the skin on the kernel any better than a fish does but the digestive tract of a human is large enough to safely pass it where as the fishes digestive tract is much smaller and will clog and kill the fish.
BUT, yet , every main river has corn going into the water , when they are loading /unloading barges ? Guess that's ok , seeing on how BIG companies are making a BUCK on it !
Not only is it not invasive, it often tends to just... go away on its own after a few years. It really likes disturbed, poor quality ground the best, and after a while if the soil improves a little it just dies out. It's one of those interesting plants that doesn't like good rich soil. I have never seen or even heard of mullein just taking over someone's garden or a whole field like actual invasive plants do.
The powers that shouldn't be, lie a lot - They hate Nature's Healing Plants because they're competition for TPTSB synthetic toxic petroleum based substances.
That's not always true. A campground in Forsyth Missouri had these plans for many many many years. They fertilized them and watered them. Grew great for decades. When it was sold they dug them out and burned the patch.
Your statement about people going back over and over to fish an area can decimate the fish population and THAT is the reason why its illegal, the law is made to protect our resources since some people cant control themselves from destroying everything. Interesting video, thumbs up
@eric duffy Yup revenue to pay for game wardens to protect resources from ignorant people that thinks its okay to wipe everything out and then they cry later when there is no more fish in the area they used to fish from
K S Unfortunately most of these type people don’t “control themselves” from breaking the law either. Laws are only effective for an honest citizenry. When the citizens themselves go bad, you can pass ten million laws and it will only result in ten million broken laws. That is the root of our problem. Humanity itself in a slide.
Great info...I just started using mullein (ordered on line) ..I have asthma..sick and tired of medications that are EXPENSIVE and don't work well for me..the inhalers are made with milk products which I have developed an allergy to..so non-stop coughing was what I ended up with..read about mullein being good for respiratory issues..I am using the liquid drops and the tea.(both pure and organic) ..after a week I am already seeing/feeling a difference
NAC also works. Basically no symptoms of mild centri-lobar emphysema anymore....caused by the "it can't hurt you weed smoking " x 40 yrs. High temp smoke on delicate lung tissue IS deleterious.
Everyone around here calls it Indian tobacco. Mullein contains a chemical called coumarin. Most plants have it, but mullein is supposed to contain a lot. It's an appetite suppressant and is used to make warfarin. Coumarin is also a gibberellic acid inhibitor, which helps stop surrounding plants from flowering and producing seeds. It could be useful if you have a foliar crop of something and don't want it seeding out.
Thanks for the information, much appreciated. That's not a topic often found readily available or talked about. Courmarin can be harmful to your kidneys, as well as cognitive development when taken in large amounts; more than 0.5mg per pound of body wieght. That's something to consider when taking mullen internally as a tincture or extract, and especially when given to children in any form. There are very good alterantives to Mullen (Verbascum thapsus) when used for cough and extracting excess fluid in the lungs, such as horehound. Just saying. Not that I knew any of this before I read your comment. I did some research afterwards. Just passing on some info just in case. It's called Indian tobacco where I live also but so are a few other plants. It can be smoked to help with lung issues. When I was a kid in the 80's it was more common to see that sort of thing going on. Mostly with the older generation. Lots of that knowelde was lost witht them. People these days grow them for deocoration or mow them down.
@@MichaelBacaArtist I've known a lot of kids who've tried to smoke it just because it had the word "tobacco" in it. Horehound grows like crazy around the edges of my lawn. It's neat to hear the similar properties to mullein, though I'm not much for using plants for medicinal properties. I'm one of those people who likes to let mullein grow because it looks interesting.
@@Emiliapocalypse No clue. I'd assume either would work though. But really, after a doing a quick search, the side effects aren't all that great, and it's been banned as an additive in foods for being a possible cancer causing agent.
@@wcollins4974 thanks alot. It really works no doubt about it. A doctor friend says to drink lots of water with it and after.ill use just the root next time I get a snotty cold.
@@josephrodrick6451 not sure.someone else replied and said that they just use the root.im going to try just the root.but man this really dries up a bad cold.drink plenty of water with it and after.it will dehydrate you.
*Sigh* An actual real live forester here. Mullein (verbascum thapsus) is, indeed, an introduced species. It was brought in, by accident, with animal feed by the very first European settlers and quickly spread. The reason we do not treat it as something that is 'bad' is due to the fact that it really does not take over--like really harmful exotics, like Buckthorn. It likes to grow in disturbed sites, where blowdowns have happened or where mineral soil is exposed, like gravel pits.
*edit* Was actually responding to a prior post. Got distracted and responded to yours. Your post is even-keeled. --------- Invasive to when? Drift wood has made it to the west coast of the US from Asia with literally 100's viable of species on board with no human interaction. Speciation can happen in as few as a a couple years. I dont think we should be intentionally introducing species, but the whole "native" "invasive" arguement is pedantic.
Back in the early 90’s I saw one growing on the side of a country road near my home. I had never seen one before, had no idea what it was and thought it was beautiful. It was only about a foot tall single cluster of grayish leaves. I had no hesitation in digging it up and taking it home, as I knew tractors came along and cut everything down along that highway on a semi regular basis. I planted it near my front door, and it grew huge, like 3 feet in diameter and close to 6 feet tall, with a beautiful sulfur yellow flower spike. People would admire and inquire about it. I finally did research as to what its name was but only recently learned it was a useful medicinal herb. I found amazing things growing in random spots out there, including a passionflower vine growing right out of the middle of a hard packed clay road in the hot Georgia summer, with one gorgeous bloom on it. It stopped me in my tracks. I should have tried to water and dig up to save it as that road got scraped regularly.
Learn somethin' new everyday!...and I have loved this plant for a looong time! (The flowers, infused with fresh garlic in olive oil, is THE BEST "swimmer's ear" treatment...peeps & pets, btw) Thanks! :D
I found a two year old plant growing on my property so I looked up its uses. Thanks for the info. This would likely help people who have come down with COVID 19.....
@@juicepick7131 Yep, the planned scamdemic. Thank baby jeebus someone else out there has common sense LOL There never was a pandemic and still ain't. This plant is great for bronchitis, colds and coughs, great for smokers and asthmatics etc. Its some powerful medicine!
I know this video is a few years old, but just wanted to say that you can do similar with Yucca. If it works the same as Yucca, then you aren't so much stunning them but the saponins make it so they can't breath. Putting the fish in clean water typically revives them.
Tea made from the leaves is fantastic for coughs & other lung/breathing problems. But you must filter it through cheese cloth or make it in a french coffee press as the little hairs will not make you happy. The flowers soaked in Olive or Almond oil is great for ear ache, especially mixed with crushed garlic.
Great vid! Mullein leaves can be charred like charcloth. Chars are very useful when igniting fires with primitive means, such as Flint & Steel, Solar, Friction, etc. Dried leaves smoked, steamed or as tea open our breathing passages.
For mullein cough mixture mix equal parts of dry flowers with sugar and layer in a jar. Leave on warm window sill for 3 weeks till sugar has dissolved and a brown colour syrup appears. Strain through a sieve and keep in brown medicine jar.
We’re about to replot this plant and came across this video. My whole family and I were laughing. You have an awesome way of explaining the benefits of this plant. Thank you for the good laugh, just subscribed!
My grandmother,who raised me, was born in 1905. When we were out in the fields hunting pokeweed, I kept seeing this pretty plant and ask her what they were and she said her mother which was part Indian had told her it was called Indian tobacco, so there is another name you can add to your list 🤭
Actually all Tobacco is Indian tobacco. This is not that. Mullein is not called Indian Tobacco by anyone. It is a European weed and an invasive species. Call it Gringo tobacco if you want. Also you grandmother's mother is the person which was that great-grandmother.
@@headlessspaceman5681 Mullein is called Indian Tobacco and has been referred by that name for hundreds of years in North America dude I'm 53 and was informed of Mullein when I was in the Boy Scouts at the age of 7 there's many good medical uses out of this plant.
Thank You on excellent video 👍My great grandmother(Neretva river delta,Dalmatia,Croatia🇭🇷) had a small pond connected with a canal to the river.Once a year she used to do the same but with other plant: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_characias .She used to break the bundle of it and put it in the canal.The pond would be full of stunned eels. She did this also once a year.Greetings from Croatia 🇭🇷
Don't add it to standing water!!!! A pool in a stream, or a slow moving stream is fine, as long as there is an inflow of fresh water. If you use it in still water the fish can end up dying if the chemicals are not diluted and washed away. If you do use it, make sure to take a walk down stream and check for more fish.
Look for a plant growing in the ditch alongside the road. They are a very common weed that grows everywhere. Look for 2nd year plants with the tall center stalk, cut it off and bring it home. You can scatter the seeds from the stalk somewhere in your yard. Or if you don't want it growing in your yard, just collect from the plant in the wild.
Richard Vaughn One rock with a natural indention in it, one with a natural protrusion, problem solved with natural materials, just have to find rocks. Usually some rocks around wherever these are found. Wood might work too.
Helps clear up respiratory issues is an important use. I've read that just inhaling the scent from the crushed leaves can help with those issues; same with the smoke or tea from the leaves. Amazing plant with a long history of medicinal uses.
@@MadameFlora I don't know where it grows. I actually just bought it on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EVSIWGK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
New subscriber today. So hundreds of years ago when indigenous peoples used this method, reckon how much they used? Think they used it in running water too? What valuable information for them to have discovered for survival! The good Lord provides plants for us to help us in many ways.
I was a poacher warden on an estate in the Outer Hebrides, back in the 80s. Back then, they used to used a slow release `bomb` of lime in a biscuit tin; dropped in the water with a weight. It would have the same effect on the fish, we were told. Never saw it done myself, though I saw a lot of sneaky methods using nets and otter boards etc. I think it might kill the fish if it were administered in a large enough concentration. Ironically, it was legal fish farming that killed off much of the native fish.
I brought in some soil and some compost to my tiny patio last fall. When I started consistently watering the unplanted mixture, stuff started growing. I have two melleins but they are just leaves about ,,14" across.
@@Avendora the compounds contained in that plant are not anything that needs to be in our water or our food. You know what rotenone is? Coumarin? It will indeed kill in a high enough concentration. The average person isn't going to test the seeds and then do the math on water volume and dispersal rates. They are going to grind up as many as they can get their hands on and dump all of it. It isn't illegal because"it works" It is illegal because the unintended consequences are huge and dangerous.
It grows everywhere for the most part. I live in Southeast Virginia and see it here and I did a 6 week camping trip in the Selway Bitterroot wilderness in Montana in 2010 and saw it all over the place out there as well. I made a hot tea with it a few times while in Montana. It seems to grow around rocks. I don't know if this is a factor in its growth but where I see a lot in Virginia is in rocks along a lake's edge. And where I was in Montana was very rocky. Perhaps when you are near water with a lot of rocks along the edge keep an eye out for it.
The poison fish tree (Burringtonia asiatica) also produces seeds that can be used to stun fish. It is found on numerous Pacific Islands. I discovered one growing beside the cliffs at Orote Point when I lived in Guam.
I'm late to this video but Mullein is (obviously) my favorite plant for the many medicinal (and edible) properties although I've never used it for fishing I would in a survival situation.
Exactly! Why hoard toilet paper when there's Mullein around? lol! I've relocated 20-30 Mullein plants I found around the yard into one location where I can harvest the leaves when I need them for medicine and toilet paper.
Get a bum gun, a hand held sprayer and attach it to the sink. So much cleaner. If you had poop on your arm you wouldn't just wipe it off with paper. Since I got a bum gun, I haven't had a urinary tract infection.
That's not what it means, actually. A plant can be foreign and non-invasive. For example, tomatoes: they are non-native, but since they do not spread aggressively and crowd out native plants, they are not considered invasive.
@@alexhaney100 You are correct in saying they are not considered invasive. Here in Massachusetts, common mullein has been evaluated and determined to be of concern for its presence in some fragile habitats such as limestone cliff communities. However, since it was determined not to have outcompeting qualities, it did not make the "Invasive" list, and it did not make the "Likely Invasive" or "Potentially Invasive" lists. Here is the UMass paper I used. This is the invasive bible here that is often referred to. www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/08/tm/invasive-plant-list.pdf
People need to use it to clear up all the breathing and allergy problems in the world. Then perhaps it will be appreciated for the amazing plant it is!!!
@@mspeggylee4214 Last year when I saw a dozen of these starting up in my front lawn I instructed the man who mows my lawn to mow around them. Now They look like aliens growing up in the middle of my lawn. They are quite stunning.
Interesting bit of info! I love mullein for bronchitis type issues. I am rarely sick, but sometimes spring pollen makes me have a bit of a cough that won't let up. I smoke dried mullein leaves. One pipe full keeps the coughing down for 12 hours or so. I make an earache oil by infusing olive oil with dried mullein leaves. Good stuff! Tinctures, teas (strain through a cloth because the tiny hairs are irritating.), etc. are good for respiratory conditions. I keep dried mullein in storage. I never suggest others smoke it...but, for me, it' works wonders for coughs. :) The fishing info would come in very handy in an emergency situation when rules may not matter anymore.
I had a hemorrhoid problem one time in my life and all of the over-the-counter hemorrhoid medication and doctor prescribed medication appear to make it worse. And old work colleague told me about the mullein plant and he brought me some and I used it I've never had an issue with hemorrhoids again and that was well over 20 years ago
Excellent for bronchitis, sore throat and cough. I've used it for a very long time. It just pops up all over my place. Seems to start easier in newly disturbed soil.
When I was 12, out at my Dad's deer lease, and out of necessity, I used Cowboy Toilet paper for its, uh, stated purpose. It worked. Heh. Come to think of it, my brothers and I also used the leaves as a bandage on a wounded armadillo. WOW. ...I think I just realized how country I am.
Actually Brandon, she's right. Native Americans used to smoke the dried leaves for respiratory issues, including asthma and bronchitis. Don't be mean just because you don't understand the history and science of herbal medicine.
@@tammyd4391 You will find Pharmaceutical paid poop droppings like these everywhere, where there is a word supporting stuff that heals body, instead of making you spend for meds forever. So please ignore the smellers.
Tammy D. IGNORE TODAYS SYNTHETIC BRAIN WAY OF THINKING HERBS DO WORK YOU CAN'T EXPECT A GENERIC SOCIETY TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT'S WHY THEY LASH OUT. I DON'T SMOKE BUT LET THEM SMOKE A JOINT OPINIONS WILL CHANGE.
What a coincidence, I just saved two of these wooly mulien this morning. The guy was coming to our place to plow the garden and I dug them up. I want them to bloom. This is their 2nd year. This is cool stuff to learn. I also dug up six curly dandelion that had gone to seed. They are quite tasty.
I live a 8,000 elevation in the mountains of Colorado, this plant is very common hear! I may or may not have tried this fishing technique when I was a kid, I can say, if I tried it, it worked great! 🤷♂️
Thanx for the tip, I am looking at beginning my aquaponics journey and this would simplify harvest. I have to agree with the law, too many people would abuse it and we are already having a severe effect on fish populations.
Interesting. When I was a kid we'd rub the flower into a wort and it would kill it. Had no idea why it worked then. Using it as t.p. leaves you a bit....itchy I can attest.
Invasive implies detrimental, which it isnt. it's literally native here, which by nature means it's not invasive. A lot of folks confuse Invasive, with Prolific! it's absolutely prolific!
Hey now, I've got another name for mullein to add to that extensive list. I was taught to recognize the plant by my father who introduced me to the medicinal plant he calls Jacob's Staff. A home next to a local big apple orchard has a huge specimen that looks to be nearly seven feet tall. I've never seen one so big in my whole life. Most Jacob's Staff in my area grow from two to four feet tall.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm a prepper and I've been looking into the healing and other properties of weeds and such. Again thank you!
Interesting.. I worked at a pond store where we had to operate on fish... The way we would put them to sleep ( unresponsive) was to put them in a tub with just enough water for them to swim, and start adding drops of clove oil... within about a minute, the fish go into a deep sleep. We then take them out and place them on a wet towel to treat them, or operate on them. Then all you have to do to wake them up is put them back into the pond...
lol I have clove oil for a oil diffuser, I feel like it would be cruel to test out... so out of curiosity lol would that work? Like if I dumped the whole vial into a river?
@@EC-dz4bq in a 4 wide 4 gallon tub, it takes between 15-45 drops of clove oil to put a fish into a deep sleep. No...you wouldn't have enough clove oil to make the concentration ratio correct... If you put too much in the water, the fish can die. And then in a river, the dead fish would wash down stream.. This would only work if you had the fish in a net and then put it in a tub.. a peaceful euthanasia is not necessary if you plant to kill it to feed people. :) my point was, there is more than one way to put a fish to sleep. but you would have to have gallons of clove oil in a pond to make it work.. But since you don't have a second pond, of fresh water, to wake them back up. You might as well kill all of the fish in the pond.. You can't eat that much fish in one setting...And what a waste.. PEACE..
I watched a documentary that said that this plant has likely made countless un described species of fish go extinct because indigenous people in remote areas have used it to such a degree that many streams and rivers where fish diversity would be incredible are empltg
First I've heard of that. Remote areas -- rivers and streams -- not exactly the same however as large bodies of water where more diluted so only stunned and enough fish to only do once every couple years. Toxicity is dose dependent as well as frequency of use.
I heard about using mullein as a survival tool to catch fish over 50 years ago while in the Boy Scouts. This was a topic discussed by our Scoutmaster who worked as a biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game. We were also told that this use is strictly illegal. I was wondering if you might be able do a demonstration with some goldfish in a tank. I'd love to see it work and if the fish recover. Thanks for the video!
try it! it doesn't work. So much B.S. is repeated for years because no body tries it, especially if "illegal". I've tried in SO MANY WAYS thinking maybe some details were wrong. I ground up in a blender lots of seeds and seed stalks, mixed it in the water, NO REACTION. I took the entire green plants, put in a blender, saturated in the water, NOTHING. NOTHING FROM THIS PLANT MAKES FISH COME TO THE SURFACE!
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Around where I live in Batavia New York we call it Nature's toilet paper and yes it works LOL I've seen people throw firecrackers in the water and the fish would blow up to the top not that it's a good thing that I don't think so. I think it would be good to know if you were really damn hungry that would be the only time I would ever do that
You should edit this video to make it clear that doing what you described WILL KILL THE FISH.
@@emack76 😁😅🤑
@@emack76 maybe you didn't watch the whole video if I remember correctly he did maybe he did not emphasize it enough. But I think it's a good thing to know to say some day is the end of the world's. You got a lot of people to feed you don't have a fishing pole and you're all starving and boom you got all those fish. And if you did it like the natives do it would not cause harm because you do it every couple years so they can replenish
Good SHTF info.
Mullein can be found everywhere until you need to poop.
Just make sure you don't go for the nettles!
Roger that. 10 100. No nettle. 😅
Hahaha no kidding ! Boy this guy can remember alot of names for Mullen good job
Too accurate. 😂
If you do mistakenly use nettle (😱)...search out jewelweed & rub that on after the nettle...to quench the sphincter fire. 🔥
My grandmother was born and raised on the reservation and she told us about this and explained that it was only used in food emergencies and when fish were to plentiful for the water they were in. Even in the tribe it was forbidden to use it for greed or for selling with heavy penalties. Thanks for sharing this story, take care, love, peace and respect. Blessings 🐟🐟🐋🐟🌱🌱🌱
my grandfather showed me how to use it for fishing and for healing, he was from the Cherokee tribe.and he also had rules about using it for fishing that I followed.i miss him very much.
'forbidden for the purpose of greed or for selling' only emergency use. god ethics, good morals, flawless logic. good rule. as a nation we should only make rules like that.
This is good to know for an emergency. If I ever have to use it, I will try and follow that rule.
Moderation in all things. 🙋
Same here!
First time here...after you made the comment ..."if it is illegal ...it is because it works"...truth....subscribed.
Weird timing-I was just hand broadcasting Mullein seed I picked straight from the stalk, to help encourage more spread down my driveway this morning. They’re absolutely loaded this year. I have one plant that’s got to be 10ft tall. The blooms are awesome. Such a useful plant.
This just popped up on my recommendations, and I didn’t search anything related, which is why I say “weird timing.”
The dried mullein stalk also makes the best "drill" when using a drill and fireboard to make a friction fire.
That's something I've always wanted to try, but never had a reason to try. I like to use one of those magnesium/flint & steel strikers.
Thanks for info
I hear you can make a sedative out of the stalk and roots too 👍
You dry the leaves and make a tea, helpful for going to sleep
What is your favorite fireboard wood to pair with it?
Mullien has been a lifesaver to me and my family for over 50 years. It is so mild you can make a tea and give it to babies! It cured my kids diarrhea overnight! With honey it soothes a sore throat. Calms a cough. And I first learned about it when hiking/camping in the mountains of New Mexico... as the "toilet paper plant". Some would dry it and mix it with tobacco, to make it last longer. I don't recommend that, but it did us no harm. It grows in my yard when my body needs it. Weird, but true.
Collect the yellow flower pedals put the in a jar layering it with honey or sugar let it sit for a few weeks and you have a very strong cough syrup.....
Another really wonderful decongestant syrup that helps break up mucus/phlegm is making a tea of garlic, onion and ginger then cooking it down with sugar and adding turmeric. It's better than any pharma product i have ever tried.
The flowers are also the best sleep inducer ever in tea form...far superior to wood betony, passion flower or catnip or valarian.
We buy mullen tea. All the time.
@@branchingvine I am so going to go find a mullein plant. I've suffered from insomnia my entire life. Respiratory ailments, too. I definitely need this plant.
Funny thing is, I've been petting this fuzzy plant since I was a kid. And my family has gathered wild edibles for generations. And as an adult I'm an amateur herbalist. But I only recently learned about the medicine in mullein. 🌱
@@Lawknee Once I find some and try it I'll let you know how it goes. If I can find these comments again.
Came for the title of the video. Stayed to read all the comments on what people use it for. Thumbs up sir!
Nice to know this. It's a great plant. When I have a dry cough, I roll up a mullein joint, smoke it. Within a few hours, I have a productive cough and usually 24 hours, the cough is gone.
Nice! I've done the same thing with weed. 🤏
Covid remedy?
My dad as a kid said they would sometimes pick it and try to smoke it like cigarettes.He sometimes called it Indian tobacco .
@@Rick-the-SwiftI mix mullein with weed for any cough we get. Even works for allergy related coughs and congestion.
@@hildahilpert5018 Tobacco looks very similar before the stalks start to grow. He might have actually been smoking wild tobacco.
Solution to the Asian carp problem? It could be temporary paralysis which would make all the invasive fish easier to catch.
Good idea dude 👍
Great point.
No one will starve in carp territory.
They use electro stunning to the same extent but its limited in range.
Assuming it only stuns them, then that would probably be a really good idea.But from the sounds of it, it sounds like it actually kills most of them. peace! :D
Hahaha. Things are illegal because they work! He is spot on, there. Apply that logic across the board, especially the energy sector, and you'll understand WHY we are not free people.
Its not illegal cus it works its illegal because man will abuse it- not gonna say which man cus we all know. He went on to explain the indians knew it can only be used 1 time per year but greedy men always abuse power
@@omariparsons5935 indeed this practice should not be done, except in emergency.
Justbluke the medical mj now..sure you can BUY IT..but not GROW IT...smfh
@@williamreilly5469I dunno where you are, but most states where it's legal allow growing enough for personal use. This was true in many states even before it was legal to smoke it! 😂
@@thediplomasta5891what does the energy sector have to do with anything other than having pipelines bust and wreck people's lands and coastal areas? Or coal ash ponds that bust open and wreck several whole fields, for that matter.
The fossil fuel industry makes it so it's harder for people to house, feed, and clothe their families. And the nuclear energy sector doesn't build the safe thorium salt baths reactors that CAN'T have a meltdown, by design (it's impossible because of the method the radioactive materials are used for the heat output) rather than the current design that worries so many people.
There's hydroelectric and geothermal that are safe, as well, and the only downside of solar is the stuff that must be used to make them & the batteries for them, and at the end of their usable life, is exceedingly dangerous to recycle. There's even biodiesel that is REALLY easy to make!
We could be totally energy independent and not use a single drop of petroleum products except to male certain types of plastics that can't be made from plant-based sources. It would be SO easy to do!
We could do that TOMORROW if we only had the infrastructure! And every time a certain party wants to build said infrastructure, another party comes along, says no, and starts writing laws to control what people do in their beds, their bathrooms, and their doctors' offices. Small government, my left, hind foot.
Mullein was brought to America from the dirt ballast of boats from Europe and Spain. The flower stalks can be turned in to large candles after dipping it in wax. I dry the leaves and mix it in to my tobacco to roll in to cigarettes. That plant is amazing. It’s also called “poor mans tobacco”
There is a chemical.in mullein that is closely related to nicotine. People trying to quit smoking years ago would smoke cigarettes of dried mullein leaves as a substitute while they tried to quit.
@GooberBear I love how you said "when," instead of "if" the nation collapses! 🤣
@@christopherlewis1315 God, I hope I'm able to buy forested land in the hills before it happens. I want nothing more than to tuck my kitties and I safely away before then.
Native Americans also would use it as a smudge like you do Sage. It will help purify the lungs.
Can you make chew out of it?
We have a ton of that growing in the cemetery...I used to love to pet it when I was little..I called it the “puppy ear plant”.
You should pick it, dry it, sell it on Amazon. I’m buying it from there until I find some. 🤷♀️
I also foraged it at a cemetery.
That's neat I'm going to call it puppy hear plant from now on
Be honest, you tried wiping your butt with it and it was so soft your fingers broke through 😂
I called it lamb's ear 🐑
It is primarily a LUNG herb. It relaxes the lungs and then helps as an expectorant. Same effect discussed in the video. The leaf is the part used for this. Breathing the smoke is one way to do it or you can make a tea.
The root is good for bladder incontinence.
Excellent!
But how do you prepare the root? I use the leaves for tea
@@luckypenny312 Any way you want to get it into your body. There are MANY different ways you can get someplace.. same with getting herbs into your body.
I have also learned that the root can be use for certain back issues. I don't have much info on that.
@@luckypenny312 you can smoke the leaves, and make cough syrup with the flower
Find a good herbalist to use it in a tincture, it'll take out pneumonia.
Flowers soaked in olive oil and left on window seal for a couple weeks, strained and bottled, used as ear drops.
for wh-at? i just use for lungs
@@earthlyanodyne read the comment i said for ear drops..... 👍
Leaves used in shoes protect and heal sore,cracked and blistered feet
Under the sock against the foot, or between the sock and boot?
Those little hairs might not be so comfy when they get into your skin.
@@biddibee3526 the hairs on mullen are way to soft to peirce our calloused feet.
True
@@biddibee3526 not to smart are ya
My mother always had this growing in her front yard in St. Louis. it was always one of the most visually interesting parts of her garden. I now have it in a plot in my yard that I am slowly building into my herbal/medicinal plot.
Have you noticed it hindering other plants from flowering/seeding at all?
@@Sunshine_Daydream222 It doesn't seem to. It seems to have naturalized well, occupying spaces that most other plants aren't claiming. It's definitely not an aggressive monoculture species such as Dyers Woad, Thistle, or Whitetop.
That sounds great, Bethany. Good luck and all the very best in your endeavours.
This is what I took after a bought of that coof we had. Got my lungs straight after that! Good stuff!
I have this plant that’s been growing in my pot and I’ve totally been wondering what it is. I think it’s mullein. So glad I watched this. I’ll let it grow another year and watch for the pods now! Thanks
if its soft and fuzzy like a lambs ear , and or you really really feel like it would be nice to wipe your butt with, its probably mullein.
Buckeye and green walnut shells do it too. Historically my tribe used that. We did it once a year before winter when the water in rivers and streams were low to smoke and dry as much meat and food as possible for the little hunger and big hunger months. After rains and the new year the shallow pools in creeks would be replenished with fish.
Thank you for this tip. How would you use the Buckeye and green walnut shells for this purpose, if I may ask?
@@martins.3330 tied into a basket and thrown into a pool where fish are. Keep in mind this is highly illegal in most places in the US.
@@Y34RZERO Thanks a lot. I live in Denmark. I don't actually know if its allowed here. I have never heard anyone try it, but mullein, buckeye and walnut are abundant. Would it be the shells or the nuts of buckeye that work? If it is the nuts I suppose you would need to cut them up a bit?
@@martins.3330 Historically we crushed the shells and nuts whole.
*I very much appreciate this share. 1st Nations people have so much knowledge. Thank you.* 🙏🏻🫡
Thank you for this useful information. I am a family physician and many of my patients with severe lung conditions, swore by using mullein tea to help their breathing.
Great vid. You can also use the green husks of black walnuts. Step on them to fracture the husk, put them in a toe sack and lower into the water. Fish will be stunned and you can just scoop them up. And you can add the fractured husks to water, pour on the ground and worms will come up.
james davis A croker sack probably work too. A meal cake in a croker sack is good chum for mullet.
Exactly
My grandmother said her dad used the walnut husk truck during the depression... One of the cheap and easy ways to score some meat when times were especially hard.
We love our mullien...... great for chest congestion!
How do you use it?
@@joshualinder6839 although it can be smoked, we make it into a tea.
@Rene Drew ..I'll have to look into that....good idea
@Rene Drew thank you so much!
LOve using dried mullen, I collect it and dry it for the medicine tea. Add red clover blossoms to the tea to make it even better, red clover is the best expectorant ever, brings the congestion up and helps quiet a cough for hours after drinking.. Sweeten with honey to soothe the throat...
Absolutely the best Mullien educational information! The comments tell the rest of the story. Thanks 👍
Nobody will worry about what's "legal" when the economy collapses... thanks for the tip.
That will happen if you vote DEMOCRAT
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White Templar, Um...well that would be the EXACT opposite of what you're trying to do.
Ayup.
White Templar take your stupid ass out of the country if it's so evil. With a picture of real evil on your UA-cam page 😆🖕
Thanks so much for actual information! Mullien dried and crumbled is also good to smoke, especially if you are trying to wean yourself from tobacco. The smoke also has healing properties for the lungs.
So is heroin
Except the burning causes smoke and breathing in smoke is carcinogenic. So, not a good option for weaning yourself of tobacco. On that note I would also say it is bad for your lungs to smoke it, not healing properties...
Even smoked it can heal the lungs. Farmers used to burn large piles to cure outbreaks of respiratory illness in cattle.
I believe Jamaican Dogwood was used in the same way. I can say though, as a homeless teenager years ago (not USA), I did try this. I had landowners permission. And yep. I didn't starve is all I can say. I did find you can condense the effect by building some kinds of fish traps and just petrifying whatevers come into your enclosed circle. Grind the seeds into a satchel 'teabag' and it doesn't span out so far and uncontrolled either. However, if you scatter cast it, expect ALOT more fish than you even realised we're there and have a gert freezer to hand.
My grandpa always called it "asswipe weed" 😅
We called it "button weed" to be political about when you needed it, bc it goes on your butt lol (not to be confused with actual buttonweed which doesnt quite work out as well haha). It was always my go to if I was helping my dad out in the field and had to take a dump but didn't have time or the means to run back to the shop... its honestly better than the finest toilet paper, makes roughin' it not seem so rough 😂
@@newtonbomb it's definitely one of natures finest gifts in times of need 😆
Mullen is one of my favorite plant allies it amazes me how much she offers to us -
She?
@@surferdude8086 Misgendering plants?
@@surferdude8086 Some refer to all beneficial medicinal plants as she as in "Mother Nature" -- healing which is culturally and historically referenced as feminine like a nurturing mother.
This is valuable information if we ever need to survive from the wilderness. Who knows what’ll happen in our future
I’m using a mullein blend right now for lung support after having pneumonia. It’s been working so well! I highly recommend it! I’m using Lung support tincture from Sprouts but I recommend mullein tincture from anywhere
In Indiana we used crushed black walnuts that were still green with a little water, pour it over a patch of non-rocky ground and it makes worms come up fast! Rinse them off and keep them in a bowl to fish with. In a pond, you can use it to stun fish, but you would need lots and lots of it, also illegal to use for catching fish.
Thanks for giving me another use for these walnut trees, and a way to find worms, should I need it.
It grows in Europe too. I consider it highly invasive. It's not an obnoxious weed, but I found one plant and grew it at home. Next year, it was everywhere in the entire neighbourhood and that hasn't changed 20 years later!
I learned as part of my Master Herbalist education about Verbascum thapsus, which is the Latin name for Mullein which is THE GLANDULAR HERB, that it is a wonderful plant! With 3 parts Mullein and 1 part Lobelia inflata, it can help any gland concern, like lung ailments. It can also help abscesses. One time in history and once with a client it healed and mended crushed testicles and split scrotum, by being made into a tea with diustilled water and being applied topically soaked into underware to apply or soaked in a cotton natural fiber cloth and applied. They only grow where they want! Adding fresh Mullein blossoms to an oil such as olive oil, and set in the sun for 14 days, makes Mullein Blossom oil, which is great for pain from earaches, when a few warmed drops are put in the ear canal.
Deborah,
That might be when they first sprout. I transplant mine along my property line due to the fact the neighbors will try and kill it by constantly mowing it or putting a herbicide on it. Depending if it's in an open spot or along a fence line.
Also where did you take your master herbalist teaching?
If I ever have a crushed testicle just shoot me.
Sorry, a tea can not fix destroyed testicles and scrotum.
Unless its radioactive.
And
We live in the marvel universe.
I find it hard to believe anything topically applied can fix CRUSHED testicles.
Corn in many states is also illegal too. It was explained as the fish can't digest it. Neither does my 1 year old but it doesn't kill him EITHER.
Yeah, but it can kill fish thaugh
@@dylanminer3728 You ever change a one year olds diaper? LOL I get it but when I see people drinking alcohol from glass bottles I "KNOW" where that's going and it is going to cut people for decades to come.
Corn is the is the only food I eat that somehow in my stomach puts itself back together
Humans don’t digest the skin on the kernel any better than a fish does but the digestive tract of a human is large enough to safely pass it where as the fishes digestive tract is much smaller and will clog and kill the fish.
BUT, yet , every main river has corn going into the water , when they are loading /unloading barges ? Guess that's ok , seeing on how BIG companies are making a BUCK on it !
It's commonly called Miner's Candle in the west. They would dip it in tallow to use it as a torch.
Not only is it not invasive, it often tends to just... go away on its own after a few years. It really likes disturbed, poor quality ground the best, and after a while if the soil improves a little it just dies out. It's one of those interesting plants that doesn't like good rich soil. I have never seen or even heard of mullein just taking over someone's garden or a whole field like actual invasive plants do.
That would explain why it's all over my yard, it must love red Georgia clay soil.
@@tommyblackwell3760 YUP
The powers that shouldn't be, lie a lot - They hate Nature's Healing Plants because they're competition for TPTSB synthetic toxic petroleum based substances.
Mullien is amending that clay soil for you for free, getting it prepared for any planting you want to do.
That's not always true. A campground in Forsyth Missouri had these plans for many many many years. They fertilized them and watered them. Grew great for decades. When it was sold they dug them out and burned the patch.
Your statement about people going back over and over to fish an area can decimate the fish population and THAT is the reason why its illegal, the law is made to protect our resources since some people cant control themselves from destroying everything. Interesting video, thumbs up
@eric duffy Yup revenue to pay for game wardens to protect resources from ignorant people that thinks its okay to wipe everything out and then they cry later when there is no more fish in the area they used to fish from
K S soo u saying the corrupt government dont care for nature (I know they don’t they just want more power and greed lol)
Yeah, because we are not smart enough to protect it ourselves.
If we were allowed to smack ppl that do ruin things for others I thing it would be less common.
K S Unfortunately most of these type people don’t “control themselves” from breaking the law either. Laws are only effective for an honest citizenry. When the citizens themselves go bad, you can pass ten million laws and it will only result in ten million broken laws. That is the root of our problem. Humanity itself in a slide.
Great info...I just started using mullein (ordered on line) ..I have asthma..sick and tired of medications that are EXPENSIVE and don't work well for me..the inhalers are made with milk products which I have developed an allergy to..so non-stop coughing was what I ended up with..read about mullein being good for respiratory issues..I am using the liquid drops and the tea.(both pure and organic) ..after a week I am already seeing/feeling a difference
NAC also works. Basically no symptoms of mild centri-lobar emphysema anymore....caused by the "it can't hurt you weed smoking " x 40 yrs. High temp smoke on delicate lung tissue IS deleterious.
Everyone around here calls it Indian tobacco.
Mullein contains a chemical called coumarin. Most plants have it, but mullein is supposed to contain a lot. It's an appetite suppressant and is used to make warfarin. Coumarin is also a gibberellic acid inhibitor, which helps stop surrounding plants from flowering and producing seeds. It could be useful if you have a foliar crop of something and don't want it seeding out.
Thanks for the information, much appreciated. That's not a topic often found readily available or talked about. Courmarin can be harmful to your kidneys, as well as cognitive development when taken in large amounts; more than 0.5mg per pound of body wieght. That's something to consider when taking mullen internally as a tincture or extract, and especially when given to children in any form. There are very good alterantives to Mullen (Verbascum thapsus) when used for cough and extracting excess fluid in the lungs, such as horehound. Just saying. Not that I knew any of this before I read your comment. I did some research afterwards. Just passing on some info just in case.
It's called Indian tobacco where I live also but so are a few other plants. It can be smoked to help with lung issues. When I was a kid in the 80's it was more common to see that sort of thing going on. Mostly with the older generation. Lots of that knowelde was lost witht them. People these days grow them for deocoration or mow them down.
@@MichaelBacaArtist I've known a lot of kids who've tried to smoke it just because it had the word "tobacco" in it.
Horehound grows like crazy around the edges of my lawn. It's neat to hear the similar properties to mullein, though I'm not much for using plants for medicinal properties. I'm one of those people who likes to let mullein grow because it looks interesting.
Could you drink the tea to get the appetite suppressant effect or do you have to smoke it? Thanks
@@Emiliapocalypse
No clue. I'd assume either would work though. But really, after a doing a quick search, the side effects aren't all that great, and it's been banned as an additive in foods for being a possible cancer causing agent.
@MichaelBacaArtist thanks for sharing ~
I pull up the plant and root.wash it and chop it up.then boil it .the tea does not taste bad and it will dry up a nasty cold.
So you use root leaves and all? What about the flowers, can they be used also?
@@josephrodrick6451 Yes they can also be used in this way. It is an old Native American remedy.
We always used the roots only ???
@@wcollins4974 thanks alot. It really works no doubt about it. A doctor friend says to drink lots of water with it and after.ill use just the root next time I get a snotty cold.
@@josephrodrick6451 not sure.someone else replied and said that they just use the root.im going to try just the root.but man this really dries up a bad cold.drink plenty of water with it and after.it will dehydrate you.
*Sigh* An actual real live forester here. Mullein (verbascum thapsus) is, indeed, an introduced species. It was brought in, by accident, with animal feed by the very first European settlers and quickly spread. The reason we do not treat it as something that is 'bad' is due to the fact that it really does not take over--like really harmful exotics, like Buckthorn. It likes to grow in disturbed sites, where blowdowns have happened or where mineral soil is exposed, like gravel pits.
*edit*
Was actually responding to a prior post. Got distracted and responded to yours.
Your post is even-keeled.
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Invasive to when?
Drift wood has made it to the west coast of the US from Asia with literally 100's viable of species on board with no human interaction.
Speciation can happen in as few as a a couple years.
I dont think we should be intentionally introducing species, but the whole "native" "invasive" arguement is pedantic.
Back in the early 90’s I saw one growing on the side of a country road near my home. I had never seen one before, had no idea what it was and thought it was beautiful. It was only about a foot tall single cluster of grayish leaves. I had no hesitation in digging it up and taking it home, as I knew tractors came along and cut everything down along that highway on a semi regular basis. I planted it near my front door, and it grew huge, like 3 feet in diameter and close to 6 feet tall, with a beautiful sulfur yellow flower spike. People would admire and inquire about it. I finally did research as to what its name was but only recently learned it was a useful medicinal herb. I found amazing things growing in random spots out there, including a passionflower vine growing right out of the middle of a hard packed clay road in the hot Georgia summer, with one gorgeous bloom on it. It stopped me in my tracks. I should have tried to water and dig up to save it as that road got scraped regularly.
Introduced /= invasive
I didn’t know foresters were like pilots
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Learn somethin' new everyday!...and I have loved this plant for a looong time! (The flowers, infused with fresh garlic in olive oil, is THE BEST "swimmer's ear" treatment...peeps & pets, btw) Thanks! :D
I found a two year old plant growing on my property so I looked up its uses. Thanks for the info. This would likely help people who have come down with COVID 19.....
The scamdemic?
@@juicepick7131 Yep, the planned scamdemic. Thank baby jeebus someone else out there has common sense LOL There never was a pandemic and still ain't. This plant is great for bronchitis, colds and coughs, great for smokers and asthmatics etc. Its some powerful medicine!
@@sjt4689 It was a hoax from the beginning. That's a fact!!!
It has a 2 year growth cycle first year just leaves second year it produces flower. It's medical benefits are better in the first year.
@@Filterfinder Good to know. I have one-year and two-year growth on my property.
I know this video is a few years old, but just wanted to say that you can do similar with Yucca. If it works the same as Yucca, then you aren't so much stunning them but the saponins make it so they can't breath. Putting the fish in clean water typically revives them.
That sounds cruel
I knew about everything except the stunning constituent.
Very interesting.
Thankyou!
Tea made from the leaves is fantastic for coughs & other lung/breathing problems. But you must filter it through cheese cloth or make it in a french coffee press as the little hairs will not make you happy. The flowers soaked in Olive or Almond oil is great for ear ache, especially mixed with crushed garlic.
Awesome to know this plant grows plentiful on my property
Mullein, quercetin, C, NAC, and elecampane healed my remaining lung damage from the lockdown flu. Good stuff.
Great vid!
Mullein leaves can be charred like charcloth. Chars are very useful when igniting fires with primitive means, such as Flint & Steel, Solar, Friction, etc.
Dried leaves smoked, steamed or as tea open our breathing passages.
This is good to know, thank you
Lost art to know what everything around us can be used for. Good info thanks for taking the time to share the knowledge.
For mullein cough mixture mix equal parts of dry flowers with sugar and layer in a jar. Leave on warm window sill for 3 weeks till sugar has dissolved and a brown colour syrup appears. Strain through a sieve and keep in brown medicine jar.
We’re about to replot this plant and came across this video. My whole family and I were laughing. You have an awesome way of explaining the benefits of this plant. Thank you for the good laugh, just subscribed!
You can also do it with walnut husks.
Put it in a burlap bag, when the fish come to the top, pull the bag of husks out.
Black walnuts husks are poisonous though?
@@HiddenThingsofGod
Yes..google..."fishing with black walnuts"
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My grandmother,who raised me, was born in 1905. When we were out in the fields hunting pokeweed, I kept seeing this pretty plant and ask her what they were and she said her mother which was part Indian had told her it was called Indian tobacco, so there is another name you can add to your list 🤭
fun fact, you can dry the leaves and smoke it for a buzz or drink it as a tea for decongestant along with a host of other uses
Actually all Tobacco is Indian tobacco. This is not that. Mullein is not called Indian Tobacco by anyone. It is a European weed and an invasive species. Call it Gringo tobacco if you want. Also you grandmother's mother is the person which was that great-grandmother.
My grandfather called it the same thing.
Indian tobacco is different. It has trumpet flowers.
@@headlessspaceman5681 Mullein is called Indian Tobacco and has been referred by that name for hundreds of years in North America dude I'm 53 and was informed of Mullein when I was in the Boy Scouts at the age of 7 there's many good medical uses out of this plant.
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Thank You on excellent video 👍My great grandmother(Neretva river delta,Dalmatia,Croatia🇭🇷) had a small pond connected with a canal to the river.Once a year she used to do the same but with other plant: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_characias .She used to break the bundle of it and put it in the canal.The pond would be full of stunned eels. She did this also once a year.Greetings from Croatia 🇭🇷
Don't add it to standing water!!!! A pool in a stream, or a slow moving stream is fine, as long as there is an inflow of fresh water. If you use it in still water the fish can end up dying if the chemicals are not diluted and washed away.
If you do use it, make sure to take a walk down stream and check for more fish.
After this informational video, I would love to get some seeds to grow this plant for medicinal purposes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Look for a plant growing in the ditch alongside the road. They are a very common weed that grows everywhere. Look for 2nd year plants with the tall center stalk, cut it off and bring it home. You can scatter the seeds from the stalk somewhere in your yard. Or if you don't want it growing in your yard, just collect from the plant in the wild.
They are very plenteous around the train tracks and railways.
Denise Stone it grows all over the USA. Not hard to find usually.
Thanks for having the balls to tell us. If a person were in the woods lost this could possibly save someone's life !!!
Victor Hulbert yup!
Richard Vaughn One rock with a natural indention in it, one with a natural protrusion, problem solved with natural materials, just have to find rocks. Usually some rocks around wherever these are found. Wood might work too.
Helps clear up respiratory issues is an important use. I've read that just inhaling the scent from the crushed leaves can help with those issues; same with the smoke or tea from the leaves. Amazing plant with a long history of medicinal uses.
One of my favorite plants. So many uses.
I keep dried mullein leaf on hand for my cold/lung issues tea. Interesting effect on fish!!
Native Americans smoked it to soothe lungs
@@kiachris76712 Interesting!!
Can this be found everywhere by chance? Or only in specific areas?
@@MadameFlora I don't know where it grows. I actually just bought it on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EVSIWGK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Everywhere in the US, disturbed soils usually. Big fuzzy leaves cant miss it. No stalk first year only on 2nd year when it flowers.
New subscriber today. So hundreds of years ago when indigenous peoples used this method, reckon how much they used? Think they used it in running water too?
What valuable information for them to have discovered for survival! The good Lord provides plants for us to help us in many ways.
We had covid last November and I made mullein tea with honey. We didn't develop pneumonia and I think it helped
I was a poacher warden on an estate in the Outer Hebrides, back in the 80s. Back then, they used to used a slow release `bomb` of lime in a biscuit tin; dropped in the water with a weight. It would have the same effect on the fish, we were told. Never saw it done myself, though I saw a lot of sneaky methods using nets and otter boards etc. I think it might kill the fish if it were administered in a large enough concentration. Ironically, it was legal fish farming that killed off much of the native fish.
Yes the fish farms are ruining our Sea Trout in particular
Shortsighted unintended consequences
I brought in some soil and some compost to my tiny patio last fall. When I started consistently watering the unplanted mixture, stuff started growing. I have two melleins but they are just leaves about ,,14" across.
might be a good management tool to remove unwanted species of invasive fish???
Absolutely.
It's indiscriminate. You kill off everything in order to kill one thing.
@@merholland8707 My understanding is that it doesn't "kill", merely puts them to sleep. They are killed when you remove them from the water...
@@Avendora the compounds contained in that plant are not anything that needs to be in our water or our food. You know what rotenone is? Coumarin?
It will indeed kill in a high enough concentration. The average person isn't going to test the seeds and then do the math on water volume and dispersal rates. They are going to grind up as many as they can get their hands on and dump all of it.
It isn't illegal because"it works" It is illegal because the unintended consequences are huge and dangerous.
@@merholland8707 Good point. Thank you.
I've never seen this plant before (I'm from Michigan), but it interests me as a gardener. I like the structure of the leaves and overall shape of it.
I have seen plenty of it in Wisconsin.
It grows everywhere for the most part. I live in Southeast Virginia and see it here and I did a 6 week camping trip in the Selway Bitterroot wilderness in Montana in 2010 and saw it all over the place out there as well. I made a hot tea with it a few times while in Montana. It seems to grow around rocks. I don't know if this is a factor in its growth but where I see a lot in Virginia is in rocks along a lake's edge. And where I was in Montana was very rocky. Perhaps when you are near water with a lot of rocks along the edge keep an eye out for it.
Look for the two foot tall yellow flower spikes later in the summer. It likes open areas. I have several in my gravel pit
@@uprightfossil6673 I think you just confirmed my theory that it likes rocks. :)
I've never noticed it here in Michigan, anywhere.
The poison fish tree (Burringtonia asiatica) also produces seeds that can be used to stun fish. It is found on numerous Pacific Islands. I discovered one growing beside the cliffs at Orote Point when I lived in Guam.
I'm late to this video but Mullein is (obviously) my favorite plant for the many medicinal (and edible) properties although I've never used it for fishing I would in a survival situation.
Edible? How can you eat this? Salad? soup? Just like an herb? I hope you respond.
Humm I need to start growing my own toilet paper!
lol
Exactly! Why hoard toilet paper when there's Mullein around? lol! I've relocated 20-30 Mullein plants I found around the yard into one location where I can harvest the leaves when I need them for medicine and toilet paper.
No toilet paper is least of our worries now
Get a bum gun, a hand held sprayer and attach it to the sink. So much cleaner. If you had poop on your arm you wouldn't just wipe it off with paper. Since I got a bum gun, I haven't had a urinary tract infection.
Sure. You can fill your septic system with it.
I am a trapper, it is also used for pan covers because it will never freeze, stays pliable.
also for under levers so they don't freeze down.
Mullein grows from coast to coast. Also, foreign invasive means that the plant did not originate here in America.
That's not what it means, actually. A plant can be foreign and non-invasive. For example, tomatoes: they are non-native, but since they do not spread aggressively and crowd out native plants, they are not considered invasive.
@@alexhaney100 You are correct in saying they are not considered invasive. Here in Massachusetts, common mullein has been evaluated and determined to be of concern for its presence in some fragile habitats such as limestone cliff communities. However, since it was determined not to have outcompeting qualities, it did not make the "Invasive" list, and it did not make the "Likely Invasive" or "Potentially Invasive" lists.
Here is the UMass paper I used. This is the invasive bible here that is often referred to. www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/08/tm/invasive-plant-list.pdf
People need to use it to clear up all the breathing and allergy problems in the world. Then perhaps it will be appreciated for the amazing plant it is!!!
@@mspeggylee4214 Last year when I saw a dozen of these starting up in my front lawn I instructed the man who mows my lawn to mow around them. Now They look like aliens growing up in the middle of my lawn. They are quite stunning.
I thought he was talking about the asian carp being invasive.
Interesting bit of info! I love mullein for bronchitis type issues. I am rarely sick, but sometimes spring pollen makes me have a bit of a cough that won't let up. I smoke dried mullein leaves. One pipe full keeps the coughing down for 12 hours or so. I make an earache oil by infusing olive oil with dried mullein leaves. Good stuff! Tinctures, teas (strain through a cloth because the tiny hairs are irritating.), etc. are good for respiratory conditions. I keep dried mullein in storage. I never suggest others smoke it...but, for me, it' works wonders for coughs. :) The fishing info would come in very handy in an emergency situation when rules may not matter anymore.
I had a hemorrhoid problem one time in my life and all of the over-the-counter hemorrhoid medication and doctor prescribed medication appear to make it worse. And old work colleague told me about the mullein plant and he brought me some and I used it I've never had an issue with hemorrhoids again and that was well over 20 years ago
It can break fevers & help with respiratory issues also
Sounds like the natural alternative to fishing with dynamite.
Donald Shimkus and MUCH quieter 🤣
Or telephone fishing, also illegal in the US.
Or gill netting
@@larrytornetta9764 Gill netting does not let dead fish sink, the other methods like poison and explosives, do.
@@grancito2 joke. They are all unfair ways fishing.
Excellent for bronchitis, sore throat and cough. I've used it for a very long time. It just pops up all over my place. Seems to start easier in newly disturbed soil.
When I was 12, out at my Dad's deer lease, and out of necessity, I used Cowboy Toilet paper for its, uh, stated purpose. It worked. Heh.
Come to think of it, my brothers and I also used the leaves as a bandage on a wounded armadillo.
WOW. ...I think I just realized how country I am.
😁 hee hee👍 It's better than being a city folk, imo
Country equals slightly understanding the planet you live on? Lol oh how embarrassing :P
TheRealBuddyB careful with those armadillos. They carry leprosy.
@@SniperLogic Yuk. Don't some people eat those things?
Been both. That's why I'm back in the country!
The best educational videos are the most dangerous ones, thanks great info/vid!
I have a rod-shaped top on mine with little yellow flowers. The flowers look nice.
Mullein is awesome for the lungs🤗...dry it and put in veggie Caps or make a tea
Tammy D sounds like you're thinking with your bird instead of your brain...
@@brandonrowland9268 really?🤔
Actually Brandon, she's right. Native Americans used to smoke the dried leaves for respiratory issues, including asthma and bronchitis. Don't be mean just because you don't understand the history and science of herbal medicine.
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You will find Pharmaceutical paid poop droppings like these everywhere, where there is a word supporting stuff that heals body, instead of making you spend for meds forever. So please ignore the smellers.
Tammy D. IGNORE TODAYS SYNTHETIC BRAIN WAY OF THINKING HERBS DO WORK YOU CAN'T EXPECT A GENERIC SOCIETY TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT'S WHY THEY LASH OUT. I DON'T SMOKE BUT LET THEM SMOKE A JOINT OPINIONS WILL CHANGE.
What a coincidence, I just saved two of these wooly mulien this morning. The guy was coming to our place to plow the garden and I dug them up. I want them to bloom. This is their 2nd year. This is cool stuff to learn. I also dug up six curly dandelion that had gone to seed. They are quite tasty.
How did they both take to being transplanted?
I live a 8,000 elevation in the mountains of Colorado, this plant is very common hear! I may or may not have tried this fishing technique when I was a kid, I can say, if I tried it, it worked great! 🤷♂️
Thanx for the tip, I am looking at beginning my aquaponics journey and this would simplify harvest. I have to agree with the law, too many people would abuse it and we are already having a severe effect on fish populations.
Interesting. When I was a kid we'd rub the flower into a wort and it would kill it. Had no idea why it worked then. Using it as t.p. leaves you a bit....itchy I can attest.
If you get stung by nettle, look around for this. Bruise it and rub on the area affected by the nettles. It calms the sting.
Sounds like a great way to get rid of that carp infestation in the rivers.
Not just carp, but all of the fish!
Invasive yes! I always wanted some of this mullein in my yard -two plants later I had hundreds growing in my grass, in my neighbors yard, O ya!!!
LOL, it's an invasive species...
Toilet paper farm!..
Good. Keep them
Invasive implies detrimental, which it isnt. it's literally native here, which by nature means it's not invasive. A lot of folks confuse Invasive, with Prolific! it's absolutely prolific!
Hey now, I've got another name for mullein to add to that extensive list. I was taught to recognize the plant by my father who introduced me to the medicinal plant he calls Jacob's Staff. A home next to a local big apple orchard has a huge specimen that looks to be nearly seven feet tall. I've never seen one so big in my whole life. Most Jacob's Staff in my area grow from two to four feet tall.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm a prepper and I've been looking into the healing and other properties of weeds and such. Again thank you!
Interesting.. I worked at a pond store where we had to operate on fish... The way we would put them to sleep ( unresponsive) was to put them in a tub with just enough water for them to swim, and start adding drops of clove oil... within about a minute, the fish go into a deep sleep. We then take them out and place them on a wet towel to treat them, or operate on them. Then all you have to do to wake them up is put them back into the pond...
lol I have clove oil for a oil diffuser, I feel like it would be cruel to test out... so out of curiosity lol would that work? Like if I dumped the whole vial into a river?
@@EC-dz4bq LOL.. i wasn't indicating the use of clove oil to go fishing..
@@rdkuless Well I know, but say in a emergency the world is over and I need to feed a lot of people scenario lol...think it would work?
@@EC-dz4bq in a 4 wide 4 gallon tub, it takes between 15-45 drops of clove oil to put a fish into a deep sleep. No...you wouldn't have enough clove oil to make the concentration ratio correct... If you put too much in the water, the fish can die. And then in a river, the dead fish would wash down stream.. This would only work if you had the fish in a net and then put it in a tub.. a peaceful euthanasia is not necessary if you plant to kill it to feed people. :)
my point was, there is more than one way to put a fish to sleep. but you would have to have gallons of clove oil in a pond to make it work.. But since you don't have a second pond, of fresh water, to wake them back up. You might as well kill all of the fish in the pond.. You can't eat that much fish in one setting...And what a waste.. PEACE..
What a great slice of info for a survival scenario, you don't have a hook and sting but you have some mullein.
It is a non-native invasive in the Western US.
Not all "invasives" are hard to eradicate. Some displace native plants.
I watched a documentary that said that this plant has likely made countless un described species of fish go extinct because indigenous people in remote areas have used it to such a degree that many streams and rivers where fish diversity would be incredible are empltg
They used resources wisely I find this highly unlikely. There are people who don't want you to feed yourself. Their called industrialists.
First I've heard of that. Remote areas -- rivers and streams -- not exactly the same however as large bodies of water where more diluted so only stunned and enough fish to only do once every couple years. Toxicity is dose dependent as well as frequency of use.
Hello and thank you. It's grows wild here in the Black Hills mountains in Custer SD as well.
Mullien is an amazing healing plant 💜 Sadly this same action, as it stuns fish, it kills amphibians though.
Frog legs?!!!
Monsanto already too care of the amphibians in the Midwest.
Took*
@@bradjohnson6036 and California, they were dead by the seventies.
VoluntaryismIsTheAnswer used them for bass bait in MN in 2017.
I heard about using mullein as a survival tool to catch fish over 50 years ago while in the Boy Scouts. This was a topic discussed by our Scoutmaster who worked as a biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game. We were also told that this use is strictly illegal. I was wondering if you might be able do a demonstration with some goldfish in a tank. I'd love to see it work and if the fish recover. Thanks for the video!
Legal and illegal only apply in a courtroom.
"No body / No crime" . . .
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try it! it doesn't work. So much B.S. is repeated for years because no body tries it, especially if "illegal". I've tried in SO MANY WAYS thinking maybe some details were wrong. I ground up in a blender lots of seeds and seed stalks, mixed it in the water, NO REACTION. I took the entire green plants, put in a blender, saturated in the water, NOTHING. NOTHING FROM THIS PLANT MAKES FISH COME TO THE SURFACE!
I have one in my backyard, was going to dig it up. Going to leave it to see the seed pods.