Horehound Seed

Note: Germination instructions are not on seed packets, follow the instructions below for starting seed.

Horehound grows easily from seed and can be sowed directly in the garden. Plant in a sunny, well-drained location, spacing 12 inches between plants. Prune or shear to keep the plants looking neat.

Horehound Info

Horehound is a woolly herb with a faint scent of Wormwood, crinkled hairy leaves, and flowering stems with whorls of small white blossoms in summer.

Uses: The leaves are used in tonics, liquers, and ales, and are made into expectorant and antiseptic cough drops. An infusion relaxes muscles and helps expel mucus, treating bronchitis, croup, and asthma. Contains the chemical Marrubiin which studies show has phlegm-loosening(expectorant) properties. It destroys intestinal worms and acts as a digestive and liver tonic and a laxative.
The tea is used internally and externally for eczema and shingles. Its sedative action works in small amounts to control rapid heartbeats. A hot infusion helps to break fevers and treats malaria when quinine is ineffective. It helps heal skin lesions.
The Navajo tribe gave mothers a root decoction before and after childbirth. Horehound's woolly leaves were once used to clean milk pails, and the dried flower remains floated on oil as candle wicks.

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NPV341 Horehound
Marrubium vulgare Many medicinal uses and ornamental, grayish leaves, perennial, 24" tall.

Package of 1,000 seeds. $11.95

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