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Treating
Respiratory Disorders
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2,500 YEARS OF HERBAL TRADITION
Juniperus for phlegmy cough
Herbs have been used in the West to treat respiratory
disorders
for over 2,500 years.
- Dioscorides used Urtica for pleurisy and
pneumonia in 1st century AD
- Galen classified
herbs in terms of clearing heat, dryness,
cold, damp, and phlegm
- Culpeper in 1651
said that Plantago is for coughs that come
from heat, and can treat ulcers
of the lungs
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20 SPECIAL RESPIRATORY COMBINATIONS
Plantago major for bronchitis
with heat sensations and dry cough
Jeremy will discuss the following 20 combinations
for respiratory disorders, together with their
associated Chinese syndromes:
Asthma
- asthma: acute phase (with Ephedra)
- asthma:
acute phase (no Ephedra)
- asthma + allergic
rhinitis
- asthma: remission phase
Cough and bronchitis
- dry cough
- spasmodic cough
- spasmodic cough + sticky phlegm
- chronic cough
+ watery phlegm
- chronic cough + digestive weakness
- chronic
bronchitis + cardiac weakness
aucubin from Plantago: antimicrobial,
anti-inflammatory, and spasmolytic
Fever
- influenza + sinusitis
- acute respiratory disorders
+ fever
- bronchitis + fever
- acute tonsillitis
- recurring respiratory infection
Rhinitis and sinusitis
- acute allergic rhinitis
- chronic sinusitis
- bronchitis + sinusitis
- sinusitis + catarrhal
deafness
- sinusitis + obesity
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