Herbal Treatment for Lungs

Herbs for the lungs

Herbs Lungs

Herbal Treatment for Ailments of the Lungs

The lungs are the organs that deliver oxygen to the bloodstream where each body cell is provided a supply of oxygen. In one day, a person breathes 30,000 times. People who suffer lung disease have difficulty breathing. Hundreds of thousands people have a form of lung disease and if all kinds of lung diseases are combined, this disease is rated as the number three killer in the United States. Herbs and other kinds of treatments can cure and treat diseases of the lungs.

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Chronic lung disorders generally include:

Most lung diseases do not occur in a pattern and thus the course of the disease cannot be predicted. Inflammation of the lungs seems to be the first sign of a lung ailment. There are herbs used to treat inflammation of the lungs and bleeding of the lungs.

A helpful herb that treats bleeding of the lungs:

HARD HACK (Spiraea Tormentosa)

Also called: Meadow Sweet, Steeple Bush, and White Leaf

This versatile herb can be used for other conditions besides bleeding of the lungs. It can be used to also treat: Diarrhea, Cholera and loss of appetite. It is a small shrub that grows from 2 to 4 feet high with many simple, erect, round, downy, hard, brittle and purplish stems furnished with alternate leaves which are dark green or brownish and covered with a rusty white beneath. The flowers are small, very numerous, red or purple, and grow at the end of the stems in an irregular cluster. The herb can be found growing across the United States on low grounds and in meadows. The herb flowers in July and August. The fruit is tough and hangs onto the plant throughout the winter where it is food for winter birds and animals.

The herb is a tonic and astringent and useful in treating diarrhea and cholera. As a tonic it can be used where there is no appetite. The Osage American Indians chewed the herbs dried roots and stems and drank a cold tea of the herb for bleeding of the lungs. The Indian women used an infusion as a wash for vaginal infections. A decoction of the herb is made using one ounce of the dried herb to a pint of water. The dose is from 1to 2 fluids

ounces a day.

Herbs for treating inflammation of the lungs:

HOLLYHOCK (Althaea Rosea)

A beautiful garden flowering herb found in many gardens across the United States and in the wild, this herb’s fragrant flowers can be made into a tea and used to reduce inflammation of the lungs as well as swelling of the stomach, bowels, throat and urinary tract.

Prepare two ounces of the dried flower petals by seeping in a pint of warm water for two hours. Does is 6 ounces of the tea twice a day until problem subsides.

HOREHOUND (Marrubium Vulgare)

Also called: White Horehound

This herb has tonic and laxative actions to alleviate inflammative problems of the lungs. The herb can also be used to treat coughs and colds and it grows along fences and roadsides to the height of about one foot. The leaves are deeply notched, wrinkled and are pairs on long, thick foot-stalks. The herb gives off a musky odor and its flowers are white.

This herb is prepared as a tea for treatment of lung inflammation. 4 ounces of dried herb are seeped in a pint of warm water for two hours and the dose is from 4 to 6 ounces of the tea each day until relief is reached. The herb is also made into a as cough treatment. For more in-depth information, use Google’s Super Herb Search by clicking here.