Expectorant horehound

Benefits The herb is an aromatic bitter that has been used to stimulate digestive juices. The herb is also a traditional expectorant. Folklore This herb was used as far back as ancient Egyptian times as a cough remedy. More recently it has been made into candy cough sweets. At one time horehound ale was brewed particularly in the East Anglia region of the United en used in liqueurs (Bown, 2003 British Gruenwald et al., 2002 Hutchens, 1973). 

White horehound is stated to have expectorant and antispasmodic properties. Traditionally, it has been used for acute or chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, and specifically for bronchitis with nonproductive cough. 

Coltsfoot leaves are used in a decoction of 1 ounce to 1 1/2 pints of water, simmered down to 1 pint, which is taken in teacupful doses. Its expectorant and demulcent action is of great help in cough remedies when in conjunction with pectorals such as Horehound. The leaves also form a useful constituent of asthma and whooping-cough medicines, and are smoked as a relief against asthma, bronchitis and catarrh. 

Coffin speaks highly of the tonic and expectorant qualities of Horehound, and its latter virtue has certainly been known for nearly three hundred years, as Culpeper tells us that "it helpeth to expectorate tough phlegm from the chest."... 

EXPECTORANTS Assist, by their influence on the respiratory passages, the increased secretion and ejection of mucus.—Coltsfoot, Elecampane, Horehound, Black Horehound, Lobelia, Mouse-ear. Mullein, Pleurisy Root, Squill, Sundew, Yerba Santa. 

The volatile oil of horehound has also been reported to have vasodUatative and expectorant properties. ... 

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