The White Horehound Plant

Marrubium vulgare

The White Horehound plant is also known as Common Horehound, Hoarhound, Marrubio, Marvel, and Horehound.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND INFORMATION:

White Horehound is a perennial herb in the Mint family that grows to the height of one to two feet. It often grows in open meadows and pastures, along railroad tracks and on roadsides in many parts of coastal United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany.

The Horehound herb bears densely packed green, oval, wrinkled leaves covered with white woolly hairs and whorls of small two-lipped white flowers.

TARGET AILMENTS:

Take internally for:

* bronchitis

* colds

* sinusitis

* hay fever

* asthma

* chronic coughs

* respiratory infections and ailments

* decreasing congestion

* reducing mucus

* stimulating bile flow

* loss of appetite

* bloating

* boosting the immune system

* supports liver and gallbladder

PREPARATION:

White Horehound is available in tincture, fluid extract, solid extract, syrup, lozenge, tea, capsule, and bulk herb.

The Horehound herb is used as tea, infusion, and candy lozenge.

Parts used: Flowering tops, dried leaves

Collection: Tops are gathered while the herb is blossoming between early summer and early fall.

Constituents: Bitter principle Marrubium, with a little volatile oil, tannin, beta-sit sterol, resin, flavoniods

Actions: Anti-spasmodic, antitussive, bitter digestive, diaphoretic, expectorant, pectoral, stimulate, vulnerary, antiseptic

Combinations: Horehound herb combines well with Coltsfoot, Lobelia and Mullein.

SAFETY AND SIDE EFFECTS:

* Large doses of White Horehound plant may cause irregular heart rhythms.

* should not be used by pregnant women and nursing mothers.

* should not be taken by children under the age of eighteen or adults over the age of sixty-five.