Horehound

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CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF SOFT DRINKS AND FRUIT JUICES 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). 

Miscellaneous Natural Products. The long list of natural products used in early cough preparations has diminished to the point where only a few are still mentioned. Four natural products still used occasionally outside the United States are squill, horehound, cocillana, and ipecac. 

Black horehound has antiemetic, sedative, and mild astringent properties. Traditionally, it is used for nausea, vomiting, nervous dyspepsia, and specifically for vomiting of central origin. 

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. 

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare L.) honey is light in color, with a delicious aroma and flavor. 

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. 

Habitat Horehound flourishes in dry, and particularly chalky waste ground. 

Horehound is probably the best known of all herbal pectoral remedies, and is undoubtedly effective in coughs, colds and pulmonary complaints. The whole herb is infused in 1 ounce quantities to 1 pint of water, and taken frequently in wineglass doses. 

The refreshing and healthy Horehound Beer or Ale is brewed from this herb, and a Horehound candy is made which, when properly prepared, is one of the best of "cough sweets."... 

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."... 

Coughs, colds and bronchial complaints generally. Hool prefers this herb to the white Horehound Marrubium vulgare), and makes wide claims on its behalf. He recommends it in the treatment of consumption, various menstrual troubles, and parturition—in the last-named instance combined with Motherwort. "In chronic coughs, accompanied by spitting of blood," he tells us, "it will be found most excellent, either of itself or combined with other reliable remedies such as Lobelia, Marshmallow, Hyssop, etc."... 

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. 

Horehound Coltsfoot Marshmallow Valerian Pleurisy Root. ... 

Common horehound Marrubium vulgare Aerial portion... 

Mercury wild carrot, caraway, dill, hazelnut, horehound, lavender, lily, liquorice, marjoram, oats, parsley, parsnip, savory, honeysuckle, valerian. 

Arenarioside Balbta nigra (black horehound) AO/FRS - scavenges OH,... 

Besides these, a considerable amount of extracts are made from dry materials, both foreign and indigenous as Gentian, Rhubarb, Chamomile, May-apple, Horehound, Cohosh, etc. They are also about engaging largely in the manufacture of extract of Liquorice from foreign root. 

Marrubium (horehound) Marsypianthes (marsypianthes) Meehania (meehania)... 

Fig. 86.—Transverse section through portion of dorsoventral leaf blade of horehound Marrubium vulgare). Upper epidermis devoid of stomata up.ep.) lower epidermis which possesses stomata (1. ep) palisade parenchyma (pal.) spongy parenchyma (sp, p) xylem ( ) and phloem ph) regions of fibrovascular tissue of stronger vein long-pointed non-glandular trichome (I), branched tri-chomes (/(, ft fP) several types of glandular trichomes (gt, gt, gt , gi ).

Marrueium. Horehound. Marrubium vulgare. Herba. The herb. 

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