Remedy
Earache
Warm (not hot) mullein oil only if the drum is intact. A warm cloth. Sit them up.
Draining ear, dizzy, stiff neck, or a mastoid that hurts to tap — Illness, not oil.
Do this
- 1.Look: no blood, no pus running, no recent slap or cotton-swab adventure.
- 2.Body-warm mullein oil, 3–4 drops, loose cotton. A warm bag of rice on the ear.
- 3.If they are a child with fever and a very sore ear, the oil is comfort. Watch for the bone behind the ear getting tender.
Recipes
Mullein flower ear oil
Yellow flowers in olive oil, sun-steeped. Only for a closed, intact eardrum.
Plants
Also see Fever, gut, heat, and cold and the medicine chest.