CND-0026Chest and breathing
Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.
It is good for the diseases of the chest or breast, for pains, and stiches in the side, and to expel crude and raw humours from the belly and stomach, by the sweet savour and warming quality.
An electuary made of the roots and honey, doth mightily cleanse the chest of rotten phlegm, and wonderfully help any old strong cough, to those that are troubled with shortness of breath, and is good for them that are bruised inwardly, to help to expel the clotted or congealed blood.
and with same honey or sugar put thereunto, cleanses the breast of phlegm, and the chest of such clammy humours gathered therein.
The decoction of the herb in wine, helps to expectorate the phlegm out of the chest, and is good for obstructions in the breast, stomach, or bowels, and helps a decayed appetite.
it breaks, digests, and rids away phlegm from the stomach, chest, and lungs.
It is found by good experience to be available to expectorate tough phlegm from the stomach, chest, and lungs.
The decoction thereof made with some sugar, or honey put thereto, is used by many with good success to help the cough and stuffing of the chest, by colds, as also to cleanse the reins and bladder, and helps to expel the stone in them.
Pliny saith, That the powder of the root given in drink, or the decoction thereof taken, helps all stoppings and stranglings in any part of the body, whether they proceed of pains in the chest or sides, and takes them away.
The same being drank, helps the pains both of the chest and sides, as also coughs and hardness of breathing, the inflammations of the lungs, and the tormenting pains of the sciatica and the joints, being anointed, or laid to the places;
The decoction of the herb taken in honey, digests the phlegm in the chest or lungs, and with Hyssop helps the cough.
It helps to expectorate tough phlegm from the chest, being taken from the roots of Iris or Orris.
It helps to expectorate tough phlegm, and is effectual in all cold griefs or diseases of the chests or lungs, being taken either in syrup or licking medicine.
The decoction of the seed of any of the common Mallows made in milk or wine, doth marvellously help excoriations, the phthisic, pleurisy, and other diseases of the chest and lungs, that proceed of hot causes, if it be continued taking for some time together.
It also provokes urine and women’s courses, cleanses the chest of cold phlegm, oppressing it, kills worms in the belly.
for by the fierce sharpness it purges the brain by sneezing, and drawing down rheum and other viscous humours, which by their distillations upon the lungs and chest, procure coughing, and therefore, with some, honey added thereto, doth much good therein.
and is of much use in all defluctions of rheum from the head, and for the diseases of the chest or breast.
The decoction thereof being drank, helps all diseases of the chest which hinder the freeness of breathing, and is also profitable for the obstructions of the liver and spleen.
It is singularly good in all the diseases of the chest and lungs, hoarseness of voice:
It cures tough phlegm in the chest and lungs, and helps to expectorate it the more easily;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850