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Keywords: helenium, inula, expectorant, bronchial, tonic

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

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A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.

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Elecampane is a specific for irritating bronchial coughs, especially in children. It may be used in asthma and bronchitis asthma. Elecampane is helpful as an expectorant, anti-tussive, diaphoretic, hepatic, and anti-microbial. Go to the Herbal Dictionary and look up Elecampane.

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tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally

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an herb whose root is used mostly for pulmonary dysfunction. For more detailed information, see Elecampane in our Nutritional Focus section. We do not, as yet, offer this herb in a product.

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Inula helenium Roots Expectorant, antiseptic, antibacterial, bronchial relaxant, disinfectant

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(Inula helenium L.). Coughs, expectorant, tonic. A European plant. Used in China for certain cancers. Well known in ancient Greece and Rome; according to Pliny, "Julia Augustus let no day pass without eating some of the roots of Enula, considered to help digestion and cause mirth." Experiments show the tea is strongly sedative to mice.

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Elecampane, also called Horse-heal (Inula helenium), is a perennial composite plant common in many parts of Great Britain, and ranges throughout central and Southern Europe, and in Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas.

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