ELECAMPANE Inula helenium
Liquid extract of dried second-year roots.
- Actions: Stimulating, cleansing and tonic to mucous membranes. Excellent antiseptic
expectorant. Alterative.
- Uses: All affections of mucous membranes with excessive mucous secretions. Bronchial and lung
irritation with teasing cough and abundant discharge; humid asthma; bronchitis; pneumonia;
tuberculosis of lungs; other respiratory infections. Chronic mucous discharge from urinary bladder
and the reproductive organs; leucorrhea; gleet. To cleanse stomach and intestines of excess mucous
coating. Night sweats.
- Dose: Take 30 to 40 drops, 2 to 5 times per day.
- Cautions: Moderate use during pregnancy or nursing. Elecampane is best suited for wet
coughs and not dry or unproductive coughs.