Pulmonaria, Lungwort

Male Comfrey, Spotted Lungwort

New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563

Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810

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Botanical name:
Pulmonaria officinalis

Parts used:
Leaf

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry.

Classifications:
3K. EXPECTORANT.    3L. ANTI-TUSSIVE
TCM:
P. Clear Phlegm

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Nourishes Yin, Stops Cough:
-Hoarseness, chronic and dry Coughs, Bronchitis
-Shortness of Breath and Wheezing
-Tuberculosis and Spitting of Blood

2. Benefits Kidney Yin:
-Kidney disease, Urethritis, Hematuria and Incontinence

3. Externally:
-externally for Wounds (similar to Comfrey, but weaker)
-wash for Ulcers including Ulcers in the Genitals

DOSE:
INFUSION or BRIEF DECOCTION: 1–3 grams (or 1 heaped teaspoonful per cup), sipped with Honey throughout the day (having 2-4 cups daily) in the treatment of Cough, Wheezing etc

SUBSTITUTE:
1. Coltsfoot (cough, wheezing);
2. Comfrey (consumption, spitting blood)

Main Combinations:
1. Cough, Lungwort with Fennel seed, Ribwort Plantain, Coltsfoot (Kroeber)
2. Whooping Cough, fresh Lungwort leaf (4 handfuls), Comfrey, Raisins (2 oz. each), Licorice (3 oz.), Water (2 lbs.). Boil to 1 ½ pounds, strain, and add White Sugar (24 oz.). Boil for a few minutes. (Nouveau Formulaire Medicale et Pharmaceutique, 1820)
3. Bronchitis, Lungwort with Bronchitis, with Thyme, Nettle leaf, Elecampane (Fischer)
4. Asthma:
i. Lungwort with Elecampane, Licorice, Raisins, Coltsfoot, Maidenhair (as in Anti-Asthmatic Syrup)
ii. Lungwort with Elecampane, Licorice, Sage, Coltsfoot, Hyssop, Thyme, Parsley root, Aniseed, Agaric, Fig (as in Syrup for Asthma)
5. Spitting of Blood, Lungwort with Plantain

Major Formulas:
Anti-Asthmatic Syrup (D'Aquin)
Syrup for Asthma (Wirtzung)

Cautions:
None noted in therapeutic doses

Main Preparations used: