Weeds For Health?

I recently discovered that the humongous weeds that grow in my backyard during the summer are not what I thought they were. My first impression was that they were huge stalks of some type of flowering yellow weed, and totally useless. Turns out that these gigantic stalks are actually mullein growing my in backyard naturally. And we thought it was just a huge, useless weed!

Mullein, from my research, is a type of plant that has been used in medicinal herbalism and magickal herbalism for a very long time. Mullein, traditionally, can be used for respiratory ailments (which I myself suffer from), and magickally, it is known to protect against evil spirits. According to witchipedia.com, mullein is ruled by the planet Mercury or Saturn (depending on who's grimoire is being referenced) and is associated with the element of Fire (my element, yay). It is feminine in nature and associated with the God Jupiter. Powdered mullein can also be used in spells and rituals that require the use of graveyard dirt, hence it's other alias, Graveyard Dirt. Interesting, or should I say conflicting, associations, but that's the information I was able to find online.

I'm very impressed that there are many stalks of mullein growing quite healthy in my backyard during the summer months. Harvesting is certainly going to happen this summer. We never spray our lawn with anything, so I think it would be okay to harvest the plants that will be growing outside this summer. I may even try ticturing it, but that's a big maybe. I have just begun getting into herbalism, so if I find any other interesting plants growing outside I will most definitely blog about it!