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Yerba Santa Herbal Remedies

Yerba santa is an expectorant herb useful for asthma, bronchitis, pleurisy, and moist coughs. It is also used as a bitter tonic to stimulate digestion (chewing on tender young yerba santa leaves is good for digestion). The herb has an agreeable,...

Yerba Santa - Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

Yerba santa ( and ) is a short evergreen shrub that grows in dry, hilly areas of California and Northern Mexico. The ...

Herbal Remedies for Cronic Cough

Herbal treatments include respiratory soothing herbs, expectorants, antitussives (cough sedatives), and the antimicro...

Herbal Remedies for Asthma

Try excluding eggs, wheat, and dairy products--one at a time--from your diet. ...

Herbal Remedies for Pleurisy

Treatment includes cool antibacterial herbs, immune stimulants, heat-clearing herbs for the lungs and chest cavity, a...

Herbal Remedies for Shortness Of Breath

An herbal program can include lung tonics, warming expectorants, cooling expectorants, and antispasmodics for the bro...

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