• Herb known to ancient writers of agriculture and natural history!
• Long-time domestic supportive for coughs and coughs!


• Elecampane's antitussive, disinfectant, and expectorant properties have made it useful for the potential to help support symptoms of complaints of the lungs.
• Elecampane is one of the highest natural sources of inulin, a polysaccharide associated with many health benefits.


• Herbalists prescribe elecampane for coughs associated with asthma, coughs, and whooping cough.
• Elecampane contains alantolactone.


• Elecampane is most often recommended to be taken in tea form!
• A great source of inulin, elecampane is often considered a promoter of "good" intestinal bacteria!


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• Support your cough with the natural disinfectant, expectorant action of elecampane!
• Ancient Greek and Romans considered elecampane to be a herb for a variety of disorders!


• Elecampane, or Iluna helnium, gets its latin name from Helen of Troy!
• Acts as natural expectorant and soothes the lining of the bronchial passages!


• Elecampane has been used throughout the ages for health complaints ranging from angina to lung health.
• Elecampane has even been used to mend skin infections in horses and sheep.

Elecampane is mostly used as an expectorant for the potential to help support symptoms of coughs (including pertussis) and bronchial catarrh. It is a traditional bitter tonic, stomachic, carminative, cholagogue, diaphoretic and diuretic. The root (or isolated alantolactone) can be used as a disinfectant against bloating and for infections of the urinary tract. Externally, extracts can be applied as an antiseptic to help support skin complaints.

Elecampane Root
Inula helenium L.

Family: Asteraceae.

Other Names: Elfdock; aunée (French); Echter Alant (German); enula campana (Italian); enula campana (Spanish).

Description: A large, leafy perennial herb of up to 2.5 m in height, with erect stems bearing broad, irregularly toothed leaves and large, yellow flower heads. The large heads (up to 80 mm in diameter) and slender ligulate florets are quite distinct.

Origin: Asia Minor and southeastern Europe; naturalised in Europe, North America and eastern Asia; cultivated in China and eastern Europe.

Parts Used: Dried rhizomes and roots of two to three-year-old cultivated plants (elecampane - Helenii rhizoma; synon. Radix inulae).

Therapeutic Category: Expectorant.

Active Ingredients: The rhizomes and roots contain a mixture of sesquiterpene lactones often referred to as "helenin" or "elecampane camphor". These compounds also occur in the volatile oil (1-3%) (with alantolactone and some degradation products; mainly alantol and alantic acid). Also present are inulin (up to 44%), polyacetylenes, phytosterols and triterpenoids.

Health Effects: Experiments have shown diuretic, choleretic and secretolytic activities (probably due to the lactones - mainly alantolactone and isoalantolactone).

Notes: Helianthus tuberosus (also Asteraceae) is an important source of inulin.

Status: Traditional health; Pharm.

Preparation and Dosage: As an expectorant, 1 - 4 g of chopped material is taken as tea three or four times per day. Alantolactone is taken in doses of 300 mg for adults and 50 - 200 mg for children, daily for two five-day courses (with an interval of 10 days between courses). Also in use is the essential oil.

Elecampane can be used to help disinfect the intestinal tract, to help support water retention, and to help lessen tooth decay and help firm up the gums. It gives support to all respiratory ailments. It is usually used in combination with other herbs. Externally it can be used as a wash for wounds and itching rashes. It is burned to repel insects.

Elecampane is a perennial herb found in Bulgaria, China, Europe, former U.S.S.R., Near East, North America, and the U.S. The dried cut roots and rhizomes are harvested in autumn from 2-3 year old plants.

Elecampane nourishes and supports both the respiratory and digestive systems. Indians found the plant to be useful in maintaining optimal lung health and bronchial conditioning.

Elecampane Root contains bitter principles, calcium, essential oil, inulin (32%), potassium, sesquiterpene lactones (alantolactone), and sodium.

ELECAMPE or SCABWORT (Inula helenium) is a large herb of European and North Asian origin. Its root was used in ancient Rome as a vegetable. In medieval times sweetmeat was made by adding to the ground roots, eggs, salt, sugar, saffron and spices. This herb was also considered an excellent supportive for pulmonary problems.

Several species can be used to support health; they are bitter and aromatic. Inula campana is very much used in health. The leaves of the variety known as Rock Samphire can be eaten pickled in vinegar and are aperitive. The wild variety, Scabwort, can be used as an astringent in cases of dysenteric affection.

Also called scabwort, elf dock, or horseheal, elecampane root is sweet, acrid, and bitter, and effects the lungs, spleen, and stomach. With tonic, carminative, expectorant, diuretic, antiseptic, astringent and stimulant properties, this root can be useful for many disorders including respiratory complaints, chronic coughs, and digestive weakness. Biochemically, the herb is made up of an essential oil, bitter principles, resin, and inulin.

Elecampane root is specific for chronic mucus, coughs and digestion. Therefore it is given for asthma and coughs and is beneficial when given on a long-term basis. Its carminative properties aid the digestion and assimilation of food, and for this reason, there is less tendency to form mucus.

General Herb Information

Elecampane - Horseheal (Inula Helenium).

Propagation: By seed, germination about 15 days; by root division in spring; in the fall by offsets with 1 bud and 1 eye, taken from the parent root and set out.

Nature of Plant: 10 feet high, sturdy, almost unbranching plant with huge leaves, broad at the base and tapering to a point; small orange flower disks bordered with a shaggy fringe.

Spacing of Mature Plants: 2 to 2 1/2 feet.

Cultural Requirements: Light sandy soil, moderately moist; keep free from weeds; seeds when ripe can be planted in cold frame for winter; commercial growers increase stock rapidly by cutting roots of mature plants into 2-inch pieces, setting them in enriched sandy soil in a warm place.

Uses

Root: (Culinary) Candy, pudding; (Industrial) for flavoring absinthe, vermouth, herbal tobacco, in blue dye; (Health) in cough suppresants, support for asthma and skin problems, veterinary medicine.

Dosage: Of the dried root, one ounce steeped in a pint of boiling water twenty minutes, one cup three times daily; of the liquid extract, 10-30 drops, three times daily.

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