Pulmonaria, Lungwort
Male Comfrey, Spotted Lungwort
|
|
|
New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563
|
Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810
|
Botanical name:
Pulmonaria officinalis
Parts used:
Leaf
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry.
Classifications:
3K. EXPECTORANT. 3L. ANTI-TUSSIVE
TCM:
P. Clear Phlegm
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)
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:
None noted in therapeutic doses
Main Preparations used: