Supporting Lung Health With Elecampane: How to use this powerful herbal remedy.
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Supporting Lung Health With Elecampane: How to use this powerful herbal Remedy.
I often get asked: “What herbs are good for lung support?” Or “I have a phlegmy cough, or a wet, damp lung infection that is not resolving...help?.”
My answer: "It depends on who is experiencing the issue." And I really mean that! I look at the person and not the health issue. Still, I thought it might be helpful to learn a bit about elecampane and how it is used, since it's an excellent remedy to include in the materia medica for the upper respiratory system.
My first choice for general lung issues is mullein, but sometimes we need an herb with strong cleansing action too, so that is where elecampane comes into the picture.
(More on Mullein here: • Love Your Lungs: How T... • MULLEIN Deep Dive: Lun... • MULLEIN Deep Dive (Pt.... and • MULLEIN Deep Dive (Pt.... )
Therapeutic Properties
Elecampane is stellar in helping to clear phlegm and infections from the upper respiratory system: for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, and more.
Its energetics are spicy, drying, warming, dispersing, and moving, making it especially appropriate for wet, damp, stagnant, and cold situations.
For dry coughs (or generally dry conditions), I like to combine elecampane with marshmallow, to soothe and soften its drying, and potentially irritating effects.
It is also used for stimulating digestive activity, increasing bile production, and digestive enzymes, while easing gas, and supporting bowel movements, and as a vermifuge (de-wormer). But the digestive focus is for another lesson.
Actions
Antimicrobial (cleanser), expectorant, anti-tussive (against coughs), bronchodilator (opens lungs).
How To Use
Since a lot of elecampane’s therapeutics are in its aromatics, I prefer to use it as a tincture made from freshly dug roots, which captures its volatile compounds effectively.
Often dried elecampane doesn't have much aroma (smell it and see), which means it has lost a lot of its therapeutic qualities.
ELECAMPANE TINCTURE FORMULA: 1 part fresh root by weight to 2 parts menstruum by volume. The menstruum: 65%-75% alcohol.
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TO INGEST: add drops into a very small amount of warm water. Let your taste buds take in the flavor and aroma. Or you can add to mullein tea.
Dosage: 10--40 drops; 1-5x a day
Length of use: I suggest consuming it only for 1-2 weeks at a time. Some herbalists think it is fine to ingest for longer periods of time, but since it's so strong….
Cautionary note: Avoid during pregnancy. May cause vomiting and diarrhea in large doses. Please research any new food or medicine, go slowly, learn, and discuss using it with your healthcare provider. I don’t use elecampane lightly, but when really needed.
Please note: This information is not meant to replace medical advice.
Please check our other Elecampane videos to meet it in flower here • Hello ELECAMPANE: Lung... and to learn how to dig it up here: • Digging ELECAMPANE: LU... .
Wishing you respiratory health!
In gratitude,
Dina
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Even your voice is soothing))) Thank you! 💐 😍
Thank you, BeLight, for your comment. Enjoy the channel!
I have elecampane in my garden & this fall is the first time I'll be able to harvest the root! Super-excited! And it's good to know we can pair it with a mullein tea (which is also growing with wonderful abandon in my gardens). :)
Thank you, Michelle, for your comment. Sounds good!
You truly are a brilliant teacher Dina. You give indepth explanations with tons of helpful information. Your love for your craft and your love for these amazing green people and their medicine is both so apparent and are beautiful medicines themselves. Thank for your work and all that you share.
Thank you much, I appreciate your feedback!
I LOVE the way you explain🌿🌸🍃☘️💙you are the best teacher
Thank you, Laura, for your appreciative comment! Enjoy the videos.
I found you recently and am a huge fan! I have many allergies and am hoping to heal myself without chemicals. I love your insights and delivery of information. hope to be like you someday. Thank you.
Hello T.R., thank you for your comment! Please enjoy the channel.
brillliant inspiration. thank you for introducing me elecampane :)
Thanks and glad!
Thanks for all your contributions ✨😘🙏🏾
Thanks, LA Dubz, for your comment! Enjoy the channel!
Thank you very much Dina💐
Most welcome!
Thanks for your excellent discussion! Just discovered your channel; wow.
Hello Dr. E. R. Blomgren, thanks for your comment. Enjoy the channel!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I planted Elecampane, mullein, and fever few last summer. They are so beautiful this year. I have been searching for ways to use them. I have one question. How long do you let the tincture sit before you use it?
Hello Ms Molly, Glad you are planting an herb garden! I typically let the tincture sit for 6 weeks. You might enjoy my online class which goes on a deep dive into tincture-making. More about it here: www.inthewild.kitchen/wild-food-health-boosters-and-herbal-remedies-today
Never heard of this. Will be using it. Thanks dina.appreciate it.
Welcome, Christopher.
I think you're great Dina!
Thanks! Enjoy the channel.
Thank you madame. This is very informative and you speak with authority.
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate the feedback!
Thank you Dina for sharing so much information. I will soon be searching the wilderness for some Elecampane. With all the lung issues right now, this surely will be helpful to friends and family and ready in time for Fall.
Thanks, JoJo, for your comment!
Thank you! I harvested, tinctured and propagated even more from plants I started 2 and a half years ago. I appreciate your videos very much, particularly for quick reference. Looking forward to buying your perfectly illustrated book one day soon.
So glad to hear! Enjoy your elecampane. And looking forward to you owning my Foraging & Feasting book when it works for you to buy one.
Thanks so concise and informative I just tinctured my root for first time ever - 3 year old plant and just re researching the properties. Very helpful
Enjoy your elecampane medicine!
Thank you fantastic I just made my first elecampane tincture from my own plants I’m so excited tutorial sooooooo helpful 🙏
Welcome!
Thank you once again. You are amazingly helpful. I bought the Wild Food and Health Boosters as well as your book Foraging and Feasting, which is quite a lovely book! Are you planning any future online classes for those of us who live quite a distance from you, or will you continue to upload your wonderful teaching videos to youtube? I tell everyone wanting to learn more about this herbal journey to visit your youtube channel as well as your book. Thank you for sharing with all of us and giving us something to actually understand and believe we can do this too.
Thank you, Spinder Ellas, for your appreciative comment; makes me happy! More of my online courses will be open for registration in the future. You may want to sign up for my weekly newsletter which keeps you in the loop. www.inthewild.kitchen/newsletter Be well, Dina
Thanks for this information.. I recovered from the flu but now have this constant drainage. I’m feeling good about elecampane for this. I was given some yerba santa and cherry bark tinctures a couple years ago… I gotta see if you have any vids on those!
Welcome and sending healing wishes. We did film a wild cherry tree video here: czcams.com/video/9YjJAKR_nbo/video.html
I started all mine from seed over a year ago. I hope my second year plants will produce flowers/seeds. Its proven very hardy at least in Anchorage. Over wintered in the ground and pots without issue.
Thanks, J Man, good to know: hardy in anchorage. Here in NY, they flower in their second year.
I have three year old roots that I grew for my chronic bronchitis. Do you have a recipe to make the tincture without alcohol? How else can I utilize this root? Dry? Crush? Make tea??
Best to tincture, but I only make it with alcohol. Since you don't want to use alcohol, you can def. make an infusion (long steeped tea) with it. For details on making this kind of an infusion, check our video here czcams.com/video/VZ4u657KKVE/video.html for dandelion root, but you'll replace the dandelion with elecampane. And the dosage is much less than dandelion, like 2-3oz of the elecampane infusion 1-3 times a day.
I have dried root available to me right now. Still smells wonderful! Can I make a tincture from the dried root? We are sick right now and I was going to add some root to tea or make a decoction for my kiddos and I. Any suggestions? We love your books and videos!!💓 Thank you!
Thanks for your comment. If the roots smells wonderful (strong and fragrant) then its still full of good medicine. If you like, use as tea just make sure to cover the steeping lid to keep in the volatile oils. And yes, you can use it to make tincture. Ratio for dried is 1 part herb by weight to 4-5 parts menstruum by volume. The menstruum can be in the 50% alcohol range. Best wishes!
understand your recommendation of using fresh elecampane root for tinctures. I will most definitely grow some in my My question is will the tincture still be effective if processed with dry root from a reputable source, such as Mountain Rose Herbs?
I'd like to introduce this as a tincture to help myself and asthmatic husband. But really don't have access to fresh root, unless you can recommend a supplier. I usually go with mountain rose herbs for plants I'm not able to grow
Hello Tina, I've been responding to your email with this question, with no luck. Your email address keeps rejecting my emails. This is the rejection message I keep getting:
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Anyway to answer your questions: Yes, fresh is best, but roots that are dried properly, that have retained their flavor and aroma, are good too. So, the question is whether the tincture contains a potent root.
Perhaps you have a local herbalist who makes tinctures that you could connect with about this. Or I would think companies like Herb Pharm make a good elecampane tincture.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Be well,
@@DinaFalconi thank you so much for responding. I'm not sure why yahoo is not delivering the email to me as i am the admin, lol. I will look into herb pharm, as well as reach out to some herbalist on line friends.
Hi dina thank you for your video ..ive got sarcoidosis of the lungs quite bad alot of scarring..can this elecampane or mullin help
Hello Jamie, thank you for your comment. I don't have any experience with this, so can not comment. Sending healing wishes.
You're an excellent teacher! Thank you for another great video! I would be interested in a video or photos of your herb garden(s). Do you grow them in a vegetable garden or separately?
Thanks for your comment. We have a couple of wild gardens where food and medicine grow. Cultivated veg. is sprinkled in here and there. You can see bits of the gardens in various videos we shot outdoors from May through Oct. like this one czcams.com/video/-g8C6vuZoIg/video.html this one czcams.com/video/TbzpZarM9BY/video.html and this one czcams.com/video/f9mCaqJ5nEs/video.html
@@DinaFalconi Thank you, I really appreciate it! I will watch those videos!
Welcome!
No elecampane on hand, but have meullin. Medically fragile son has mildly goopy lungs..applying oregano oil, giving oregano tea..but I've got some Meulin tincture...will add some to his supper liquids. ON antibiotics for UTI, but refusing to give him steroids
Hello Deb, sending healing wishes to your son. Also perhaps mullein tea better than tincture. And watch for too much essential oil contact, use it
diluted and sparingly.
What to use for non tuberculosis mycobacterium?
Thanks for your question. I don't know. But keep us posted on what you learn.
Thank you!! Will this help with wheezing? I always get a cough, phlegm and wheezing when ever I get allergies. Or what is good for wheezing? Please help!!
Thanks, and generally speaking, mullein may be more helpful.
@@DinaFalconi Thank you so much for your help, I actually have Mullein in my kitchen cabinet. I really appreciate you, not to many people reply to questions, this means alot to me. Blessings!!!
Can you also use dried root?
Thanks, yes, you can used dried root, just make sure it smells and tastes strong, like fresh elecampane does. Be well, Dina
I think I have bronchitis following an endoscopy. I don’t have any of my own herbs… just bought 1/2 oz elecampane and 1/10th oz mullein and I’m planning to make a tea using a peppermint tea bag and some thyme from my garden.
Any suggestions for me… should I soak the elecampane longer than everything else? Also do you have courses in herbalism. I am planting my first medicinal garden this year and need direction and skills.
Hello Beth, hoping your are feeling better. Please note that I can not give specific medical advice (and hoping you can work with a local herbalist in your area). Generally speaking, you can make an herbal infusion with elecampane and mullein and let steep for 4 hours, tightly lidded. Please see the mullein infusion video here: czcams.com/video/Vte91ULpbXg/video.html You can add thyme and mint to it as well.
Regarding courses that I am offering, Wild Food Health Boosters & Herbal Remedies is available and you can learn more about it here: www.WildFoodHealthBoosters.com
@@DinaFalconi thank you!
What might you recommend someone who is giving up smoking cigarettes, that could aid in lung healing and recovery?
Thanks, Syris, for your question. Generally speaking, I think mullein could help.
What would you use for dry chronically irritated bronchis? My bronchis are always irritated and I have a smokers (not a smoker) dry cough that gets worse with pollution, wildfire smoke and allergies leading to losing my voice regularly
Hello Jesz, not able to give specific med. advice but from a general perspective Mullein and Marshmallow come to mind. More about them here: czcams.com/video/ys0puopP_gU/video.html and here czcams.com/video/Vte91ULpbXg/video.html.
@@DinaFalconi thank you so much!
Welcome!
You doing ok Dina??
Thanks, doing fine.
Hi! I need you!! I want to put a tooth ache liquid together how can I talk with you about my choice of my ingredients and formula!! I need you Dina!!
Thanks, not sure what you are asking for?
I asked a few well known herbalist the same exact question and got a few herbalist to answer what I asked and more information! Thanks Anyway!!
I think some of you folks, especially women, have the opinion that you have to take all kinds of herbs and stuff to be healthy. I find this completely wrong.
If you take a drug for health reasons you have to be (at least a little bit, like a headache) sick. If that is not the case you should not take any medicine.
And if you ARE sick and you only treat the symptoms, you may keep sick until your life is changed in a good way, so that the origins of your disease disappear.
But I think there is no drug that you should consume to prevent some disease you think you could eventually get... You even might get sick by that.
Just eat proper food! Meat (organic, venison, from little farms, inner organs), milk & eggs, fruits/vegetables (organic, from little farms or someones garden) and not too much carbohydrates. Like our ancestors did.
Thanks for your comment.
Can I come and live with you please. I could listen to you say herb all day long.
Ha, Liam, thanks for your comment!
Nice! Your videos should be seen by more watchers. May I repost your channel without changing anything on the clean platform named Ganjing World? Thank you!
Hello Harry, thanks for appreciating the videos. Not sure what you are asking, so need to learn more. Thank you.
@@DinaFalconi I would like to repost your videos on Ganjing World, a new platform that I just found out. And for sure I will keep every of your video as is without changing anything, with full credits and sources.