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Respiratory & Lungs

Herbs traditionally used for coughs, congestion, sore throats, and overall respiratory comfort and clarity.

60 herbs in this collection

Elderberry

Sambucus nigra

Europe’s medicine chest in a tree — antiviral berries and diaphoretic flowers used for centuries against colds, flu, and fevers.

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Ginger

Zingiber officinale

The universal warming digestive — used across every major healing tradition for nausea, digestion, circulation, and inflammation.

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Echinacea

Echinacea purpurea

North America’s iconic immune herb — traditionally used by Plains tribes and now one of the world’s best-selling botanicals for colds and immune support.

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Holy Basil

Ocimum tenuiflorum

India’s “Queen of Herbs” — a sacred adaptogen revered in Ayurveda for stress, respiratory health, blood sugar, and spiritual clarity.

Cloves

Syzygium aromaticum

The dried flower bud that launched the spice trade — a warming carminative and the most established natural dental anaesthetic in the world.

Fenugreek

Trigonella foenum-graecum

A maple-scented seed used from Egypt to India for blood sugar control, breast-milk supply and digestive soothing — one of the best-evidenced traditional seeds.

Licorice Root

Glycyrrhiza glabra

The great harmonizer — the most-used herb in Chinese medicine and a demulcent powerhouse for throat, gut, and adrenal support.

Irish Moss

Chondrus crispus

A mineral-dense red seaweed from the North Atlantic — a soothing demulcent for lungs and gut, and the original source of carrageenan.

Plantain Leaf

Plantago major / Plantago lanceolata

The classic first-aid weed — chew a leaf, apply it to a sting or cut, and watch it work. Also a fine lung and gut demulcent.

Allanblackia (Tallow Tree)

Allanblackia floribunda

A tall West-Central African rainforest tree whose large seeds yield a solid edible “tallow” fat, with bark and seeds used traditionally for pain, coughs and dysentery.

Andrographis

Andrographis paniculata

The "Indian Echinacea" and "King of Bitters" — used across Ayurveda, TCM and Southeast Asian medicine for infections and fevers, now with robust clinical trial evidence for reducing cold/flu severity and duration.

Angelica

Angelica archangelica

A majestic Nordic-European herb traditionally believed to be revealed by the Archangel Michael — one of the great warming tonics of Northern European herbal medicine, used for digestive complaints, respiratory infections and as a bitter aromatic.

Anise

Pimpinella anisum

One of the oldest spice-medicines in the world, used since Egyptian times as a powerful carminative, expectorant and galactagogue — the original flavour behind ouzo, absinthe, sambuca and pastis.

Astragalus

Astragalus membranaceus

The supreme Qi tonic of Traditional Chinese Medicine — a deeply nourishing root used for over 2,000 years to strengthen the body's defensive energy, support immune function and build vitality.

Black Pepper

Piper nigrum

The "King of Spices" — far more than a seasoning, black pepper's piperine is a powerful bioenhancer that increases the absorption of curcumin by 2,000% and numerous drugs and nutrients. A cornerstone of Ayurvedic Trikatu.

Boswellia

Boswellia serrata

Frankincense for the joints — Ayurveda’s resin for arthritis, now clinically validated for osteoarthritis and inflammatory bowel conditions.

Marshmallow Root

Althaea officinalis

The gold-standard demulcent — up to 35% mucilage that physically coats and calms inflamed throat, gut and urinary tissue.

Breadfruit

Artocarpus communis

The legendary Pacific staple that became integral to West African and Caribbean food and medicine. The leaves, bark, and latex treat diabetes, hypertension, infections, and skin conditions — while the starchy fruit feeds millions.

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

A meadow flower that doubles as the West’s best-studied isoflavone source for menopause — and a classic lymphatic alterative for stubborn skin.

Mullein

Verbascum thapsus

The definitive lung herb of Western medicine — simultaneously demulcent and expectorant, and the source of the classic ear oil.

Violet Tree

Securidaca longepedunculata

A small, violet-flowered savanna tree whose root is one of the most versatile — and most dangerous — medicines in West African pharmacopoeia, used for snakebite, cough, epilepsy, and sexually transmitted infections.

African Ylang-Ylang

Cleistopholis patens

A West and Central African forest tree whose fragrant bark and leaves are used for malaria, fever, and pain. Related to Cleistopholis staudtii but with a wider distribution and distinct alkaloid profile.

Agrimony (Xian He Cao)

Agrimonia pilosa

Agrimony astringes and stops bleeding from any location in the body. It also kills parasites, stops diarrhea, and tonifies deficiency. It is one of TCM's most versatile hemostatic herbs.

African Ginger (Wild Ginger)

Siphonochilus aethiopicus

A prized and now rare southern African wild ginger, its aromatic rhizome used for colds, flu, coughs, asthma and pain — and as a protective charm.

Anemarrhena (Zhi Mu)

Anemarrhena asphodeloides

Anemarrhena clears heat, drains fire, nourishes yin, and moistens dryness. It is the essential partner of Gypsum in treating high fever (Bai Hu Tang) and of Phellodendron for kidney yin deficiency fire.

Assa-peixe

Vernonia polyanthes

A Brazilian shrub used for cough, bronchitis, and wound care.

Bitter Kola

Garcinia kola

A revered West African seed chewed for respiratory health, immunity, and stamina, and researched for its unique bioflavonoid kolaviron.

Bush Cane

Costus afer

A striking spiral-stemmed plant from African forests whose stem sap and rhizome are among the most commonly used remedies for coughs, sore throat, and inflammation across West and Central Africa.

Cape Beech

Rapanea melanophloeos

A southern African evergreen tree whose bark is used for respiratory complaints, stomach ailments, muscular pain and as a traditional protective and emetic remedy.

Cardamom

Elettaria cardamomum

The "Queen of Spices" and the world's third most expensive spice — a fragrant Ayurvedic digestive, respiratory and cardiac herb that uniquely balances all three doshas.

Chaparral

Larrea tridentata

A resinous desert shrub of Sonoran and Native American medicine — potent antioxidant and antimicrobial, but linked to serious liver injury when taken internally.

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum morifolium

A cooling, eye-brightening flower that is both a beloved East Asian tea and one of TCM's most important herbs for clearing Heat, calming the Liver and protecting vision.

Cistus

Cistus incanus

A resilient Mediterranean shrub producing one of the most polyphenol-rich plant extracts known — traditionally used for wound healing and now attracting research attention for potent antiviral, anti-biofilm and cardiovascular-protective properties.

Cordyceps

Ophiocordyceps sinensis

The legendary "winter worm, summer grass" of Tibetan and Chinese medicine — a parasitic fungus that grows from caterpillars at extreme altitude, prized for energy, endurance, kidney and lung support.

Desmodium (Amor Seco)

Desmodium adscendens

A tropical creeping legume used for asthma, liver support, and muscle relaxation across Africa and the Americas.

Dog’s Liver (Kalanchoe)

Kalanchoe crenata

A succulent African herb whose warmed, juicy leaves are a classic folk remedy for earache, headaches, inflammation and wounds — but taken internally the genus can affect the heart.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus globulus

The breath of the bush — Aboriginal fever medicine whose cineole-rich oil now anchors chest rubs, steam inhalations, and cough formulas worldwide.

Eyebright

Euphrasia officinalis

A tiny semi-parasitic meadow flower and the classic European remedy for irritated, watery, inflamed eyes and hay fever.

Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

A fragrant Mediterranean herb whose seeds, leaves and bulb have been used since antiquity as a digestive carminative, galactagogue and flavouring — one of the oldest cultivated plants in Europe.

Flat-Crown Albizia

Albizia adianthifolia

A flat-topped African tree whose saponin-rich bark and roots are used for coughs, skin and nervous complaints, but which is an irritant and toxic in excess.

Galangal

Alpinia galanga

A towering relative of ginger central to Southeast Asian cuisine and traditional medicine — used for centuries across Thai, Indonesian and Malay healing traditions for digestive complaints, pain relief and as a warming circulatory stimulant.

Goat Weed

Ageratum conyzoides

A pan-tropical weed used in West African and Brazilian folk medicine as a wound healer, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic — particularly for burns, ulcers, and arthritic pain.

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

Appalachia’s golden antimicrobial — berberine-rich mucous membrane medicine of the Cherokee, now so popular it’s endangered in the wild.

Grains of Selim

Xylopia aethiopica

A smoky, aromatic West African pepper pod used as both spice and medicine — famous in Nigerian post-partum care, and used for coughs, colds, digestion and pain.

Ground Creeper

Geophila obvallata

A tiny, creeping forest-floor herb from West Africa used in traditional medicine for treating coughs, asthma, and ear infections. Its small bright berries and prostrate habit make it a distinctive forest understorey plant.

Guaco

Mikania guaco

A Latin American and Caribbean climbing vine used as a bronchodilator for asthma and bronchitis, and traditionally as a snakebite remedy. Registered as a herbal cough medicine in Brazil.

Helichrysum

Helichrysum italicum

The "Immortal Flower" of the Mediterranean maquis — a rising star in modern phytotherapy prized for exceptional anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and skin-regenerating properties, with emerging evidence for anti-allergic and hepatoprotective effects.

Kencur

Kaempferia galanga

A small but potent aromatic ginger prized in Javanese Jamu tradition as a cough remedy, voice tonic and energy booster — the star ingredient of the famous Jamu Beras Kencur drink given to children and singers across Indonesia.

Kutki

Picrorhiza kurroa

The supreme liver herb of Ayurveda — a rare Himalayan alpine plant with potent hepatoprotective compounds (kutkoside and picroliv) that have shown clinical efficacy comparable to silymarin for liver protection.

Lemongrass

Cymbopogon citratus

A fragrant tropical grass whose leaves are a universal fever remedy across West Africa and the Caribbean — brewed as tea for malaria, colds, and digestive spasms, and distilled for its citral-rich essential oil.

Linden

Tilia cordata

The beloved lime tree of European town squares — whose fragrant flowers make one of the most popular and gentle herbal teas in the world, prized for calming anxiety, lowering fevers and soothing colds.

Makrut Lime

Citrus hystrix

A Southeast Asian citrus tree with uniquely double-lobed leaves and bumpy fruit — essential in Thai and Indonesian cuisine and traditional medicine for its powerful antimicrobial, anxiolytic and digestive properties.

Malabar Nut (Vasaka relative)

Justicia robusta

An African relative of the classic Ayurvedic respiratory herb vasaka (Adhatoda), used as a leaf remedy for coughs, colds and chest complaints.

Mimosa Gum

Acacia nilotica (Vachellia nilotica)

The astringent gum and bark of the Egyptian thorn — a cornerstone of North and West African medicine for gums, wounds, diarrhoea and oral health.

Monkey Cola

Cola pachycarpa

A West African understorey tree bearing distinctive red fruits eaten fresh and used in traditional medicine for coughs, diarrhoea, and as a stimulant. Related to true kola nut but with different chemistry.

Mountain Thistle

Acanthus montanus

A striking spiny-leaved plant from African mountain forests, prized in traditional medicine for treating boils, abscesses, respiratory infections, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Oregano

Origanum vulgare

Oregano is far more than a kitchen herb — its carvacrol-rich oil is one of the most potent natural antimicrobials studied, supporting immune, digestive, and respiratory health.

Pau d'Arco

Handroanthus impetiginosus

A majestic South American tree whose inner bark has been used by indigenous peoples for centuries as a potent antimicrobial, antifungal and immune-stimulating remedy — one of the most popular herbal medicines to emerge from the Amazon.

Pepper Fruit (Mmimi)

Dennettia tripetala

A West African tree whose peppery, aromatic fruits and seeds are eaten as a spice and used for coughs, colds, digestive upsets and as a stimulant tonic.

Pepper-bark Tree

Warburgia salutaris

A fiery, peppery-barked southern African tree revered for colds, flu, chest infections and as a broad antimicrobial — now highly threatened by over-harvesting.

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