Expectorant squill

Squill possesses expectorant, cathartic, emetic, cardioactive, and diuretic properties. Traditionally, it has been used for chronic bronchitis, asthma with bronchitis, whooping cough, and specifically for chronic bronchitis with scanty sputum. 

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. 

Scills Syrupus (syrup of squills) From the sea onion (Urginea martima), used as an expectorant, diuretic, and emetic purgative. Its most common use was in the treatment of chronic bronchitis. Beasley gives more than thirty different prescriptions. 

Squill The cut and dried fleshy inner scales of the white variety of the bulb Urginea scllla, or the younger bulbs of U. indlca. It Is used as an expectorant, cardiac stimulant and diuretic. 

White squill also reportedly has expectorant, emetic, and diuretic properties (martin-dale MERCK). 

White squill is used mainly as an expectorant in some cough preparations. In German phytomedicine used for mild cardiac insufficiency and impaired kidney function. ... 

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