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| Departments » Herbal Medicine » Materia Medica » Marrubium vulgare |
Note - the monographs are provided for informational purposes only, and are not to be used for self-medication.
Marrubium vulgare (White Horehound)
| Botanic Name | Marrubium vulgare |
| Common Name | White horehound, Hoarhound (Grieve) |
| Family | Labiaceae |
| Parts Used | Dried leaves and flowering tops |
| Habitat | Dry soils, sheep paddocks, roadsides, waste places; in Europe, Asia, Britain, North America and Australia and New Zealand(Mills),(RD) |
| Constituents | Sesquiterpene
bitters (marrubin)
Essential oil (marrubiol) Mucilage Tannins |
| Actions | Gently
stimulating expectorant(Mills)
Anti-spasmodic(Mills) Bitter digestive(Mills) Hepatic tonic(Mills) Diuretic(Mills)(Mills) Stomachic (Mills)(Mills), due to marrubin (Mills)(Mills) |
| Applications | Bronchitis(Hoffmann)
Catarrh(Hoffmann) Whooping cough(Hoffmann) Catarrhal dyspepsia (Mills)(Mills) Asthma, with moist expectoration (Mills)(Mills) |
| Body Systems | Respiratory, Hepatic, Cardiovascular, GIT, Urinary |
| Dosage | Dried herb:
1-2g or by infusion tds (BHP)
Liq. Ext.: 1:1 in 20% alcohol, 2-4mL tds (BHP) |
| Combinations | Cephaelis,
Tussilago and Lobelia.
Use with Zingiber for whooping cough (BHP) |
| C/I Cautions | Pregnancy (McGuffin)
Large doses are laxative (McGuffin) |
| BHP S/I | Bronchitis with non-productive cough |