Editing Marrubium vulgare (section)

===Folk medicine===
[[File:De medicina V00117 00000006.tif|thumb|upright=.8|Celsus' ''De medicina'' in the [[Aldine Press|Aldine]] edition of 1528]]
White horehound has been mentioned in conjunction with use as a [[traditional medicine|folk medicine]] dating at least back to the 1st century BC, where it appeared as a remedy for respiratory ailments in the [[treatise]] ''[[De Medicina]]'' by Roman [[encyclopaedist]] [[Aulus Cornelius Celsus]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Celsus/4*.html#9|title=LacusCurtius • Celsus – On Medicine – Book IV|website=Penelope.uchicago.edu|access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref> The Roman agricultural writer [[Columella]] lists it as a remedy for [[Deworming|expelling worms]] in farm animals in his important first-century work ''On Agriculture''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archive.org/stream/onagriculturewit02coluuoft/onagriculturewit02coluuoft_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "On agriculture, with a recension of the text and an English translation by Harrison Boyd Ash"|website=Archive.org|access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref> Since then, white horehound has appeared for similar purposes in numerous [[herbal]]s over the centuries, such as ''The Herball, or, Generall historie of plantes'' by [[John Gerard]], and ''Every Man His Own Doctor: or, The Poor Planter’s Physician''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text7/homemedicalguides.pdf|title= Every Man His Own Doctor: OR, The Poor Planter's Physician, ca. 1727|author=John Tennent|website=Nationalhumanitiescenter.org|access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref>

''M. vulgare'' has been described in monographs of the German [[Commission E]] as a treatment for colds, as a digestive, and as a [[choleretic]].<ref name=hsa/> It is one of the ingredients of the [[Ricola]] [[throat lozenge]].<ref name="hsa">{{cite web |author1=Maryann Readal |title=Horehound – Herb of the Month |url=https://herbsocietyblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/horehound-herb-of-the-month/ |publisher=The Herb Society of America |access-date=26 October 2023 |date=6 September 2021}}</ref> The [[U.S. Food and Drug Administration]] does not endorse the plant for use as a drug, but includes it as a safe [[food additive]].<ref name="fda">{{cite web |title=Horehound (hoarhound); Under 'H' in Food Additive Status List |url=https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/food-additive-status-list#ftnH |publisher=US Food and Drug Administration |access-date=26 October 2023 |date=26 September 2023}}</ref>

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