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Medicinal
Traditional Herbal Medicine Registration (THMR).
Culpeper: ‘Marrubium album is Common Horehound. Openeth the liver and spleen, cleanseth the breast and lungs, helps old coughs, pains in the sides, Phtisicks, or ulceration of the lungs, it provokes the terms, easeth hard labour in child-bearing, brings away the afterbirth.’
Culpeper, Nicholas. (1650). A Physical Directory . London, Peter Cole.
White horehound is a well-known and popular herbal medicine that is often used as a domestic remedy for coughs, colds, wheeziness etc
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Nomenclature
OTHER COMMON NAMES: WHITE HOREHOUND;HOARHOUND;HOREHOUND;HOUND'S BANE;MARRUBE;MARVEL;MAW-ROLL; Common horehound (Culpeper)
Other use
Notes: In the 1930s it used to be used in Norfolk as a hop substitute for flavouring Ale – Horehound Ale – because of its bitter taste.
Oakeley, Dr. H. F. . (2013). The Gardens of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis.
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Marrubium vulgare L.
Family: LAMIACEAEGenus: Marrubium
Species: vulgare L.
Common names: Horehound
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis name: Marrubium/Prassium
Distribution summary: Europe, N.Africa, Asia
Habit: Perennial
Hardiness: H5 - Hardy; cold winter
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis 1618 'Leaves' (HSE 6)
Reason for growing: Medicinal, traditional herbal registration
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