Yerba santa

Action and Therapy. A stimulating expectorant having a kindly and beneficial action upon digestion. It is to be employed where there are excessive catarrhal discharges of the bronchial and renal tracts. It may be used where there is chronic cough with free secretions, as in chronic bronchitis, bronchorrhea, humid asthma, and the cough of phthisis. Some cases of chronic catarrh of the stomach and catarrhal cystitis have been successfully treated with it.

Therapy. Yerba Santa has a soothing influence upon irritating, dry, hacking, persistent cough. It is of value in chronic bronchitis, chronic pneumonitis and in phthisis pulmonalis, in allaying the cough which seems to increase the patient's fee. bleness and advance the development of the disease. It is an excellent remedy combined with grindelia robusta. It acts well in all forms of cough where there is dryness of the mucous membranes, in conjunction with other directly indicated remedies. It is prepared in the form of a syrup, and like prunus virginiana, can be made a basis or vehicle for other agents. The syrup conceals the bitter taste of quinine admirably.

primary-actions. Yerba santa acts primarily as: Anticatarrhal, Antimicrobial, Antispasmodic, Bronchodilator, Expectorant (relaxing), Lung tonic, Anti-inflammatory, Mucolytic. Secondary actions include Corrigent.

Specific Indications. ”Cough with abundant and easy expectoration” (Scudder). “Chronic asthma with cough, profuse expectoration, thickening of the bronchial membrane, loss of appetite, impaired digestion, emaciation” (Watkins).