Take one or 2 tablespoons with honey up to 2 cups per day. Combine all the herbs, cover in honey and keep warm for 1 day. Strain herbs and use as needed. Elecampane is easy to grow but requires light to germinate so gently press the seed on the surface of the soil or just barely cover. Transplant to garden about 2' apart after true leaves appear.
Seedlings can stand a bit of frost.
Germination takes about 12 days. Local Kootenay residents please phone for purchasing arrangements. In herbal medicine it is chiefly used for coughs and other pulmonary complaints, being a favourite domestic remedy for bronchitis. It has been employed for many years with good results in chest affections, for which it is a valuable medicine as it is in all chronic diseases of the lungs, asthma and bronchitis. It gives relief to the respiratory difficulties and assists expectoration.