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up the air sacs.
f Use meadowsweet leaf on a daily basis to help establish suff cient or
balanced amounts of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Also use apple
cider vinegar.
f For the anxiety and tension preceding the spasms, which make breath-
ing diff cult, take daily teas, capsules, or tinctures of chamomile f owers,
hop strobilus, skullcap leaf (in the long term, for excellent results),
lime tree (Tilia) f ower (which must be fresh, as old stock is danger-
ous), vervain leaf and f ower, wood betony leaf and f ower, and laven-
der leaf and f ower.
f A herbalist may wish to prescribe valerian root in the short term. It
helps to break the tension quickly and usually gives much-needed
sleep. But this herb does not actually feed the nervous system, as
other herbs do.
f Cayenne pepper capsules and raw chiles will increase circulation.
f Take Siberian ginseng root, Pfaff a root, or pau d’arco inner bark, or a
combination, which will feed badly exhausted adrenals, giving long-
term support and, at the same time, will act like hydrocortisone, help-
ing to reduce any inf ammation.
f Immune herbs to help f ght infection and bolster your immune sys-
tem include pau d’arco inner bark and echinacea root.
f General lung herbs include mullein leaf and f ower, horehound leaf,
lobelia leaf, and eucalyptus root as tea or tinctures.
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Cleansing programs will help, especially of the bowel.
Practice breathing exercises.
Exercise.
Useful essential oils for baths, inhaling, and massage are cubeb, euca-
lyptus, peppermint, and tea tree, which open up the bronchi and help
to rid them of any attendant infection.
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Use chest poultices based on essential oils and mustard — these are
very warming. A drawing compress could be made from a base of two
parts bentonite clay and two parts slippery elm inner bark, with one
part each pokeweed root, mullein f ower, garlic, and red clover f ower.
Put all of the dried herb powders into a blender with warmed castor
oil and mix. Daub onto the chest and back. This will relieve the chest
from a buildup of mucus and, in some severe cases, blood clots from
bleeding lung tissue.
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Hot and cold showers over the chest will open it up — especially
if they are combined with a few drops of lobelia leaf tincture before
and after.
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