Chest collecting

Collecting the plants helping at diseases of lungs and bronchial tubes.

Pharmacological action

Chest collecting has antiinflammatory, expectorant, broncholitic effect (expands bronchial tubes and relaxes their muscles).

Release chest collecting, different in structure, – collecting No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4.

Collecting at No. 1 includes a marjoram grass, coltsfoot leaves, a mallow root.

The marjoram has expectorant and sedative effect; a mallow and coltsfoot – antiinflammatory, expectorant action;

Leaves of a plantain and coltsfoot, glycyrrhiza root entered collecting No. 2.

The plantain is known for the antiinflammatory action; the licorice softens a throat at cough, removes an inflammation.

Fruits of an anise and root of a mallow, bud of a pine, leaves of a medicinal sage entered collecting No. 3.

The anise has disinfecting property, helps to expectorate a phlegm; buds of a pine also disinfect and remove an inflammation; the sage has antiinflammatory effect.

Escapes of a Labrador tea, camomile, mint, violet grass, calendula flowers, glycyrrhiza root were a part of chest collecting No. 4.

The Labrador tea has expectorant effect; a camomile – antiinflammatory; mint – sedative; a violet grass – antiinflammatory and sedative action; a calendula – antiinflammatory action.

Use of chest collecting promotes reduction of an inflammation in a bronchial tree and to fluidifying of a phlegm that during cough considerably facilitates its removal.

Release form

Collecting releases in cardboard packs and the filter packages for a convenient zavarivaniye.

Indications to use

Collecting No. No. 1-4 is effective at chronic, acute, obstructive bronchitis, tracheitis, bronchial asthma, laryngitis, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a tracheobronchitis, pneumonia, a pulmonary tuberculosis, flu and other pulmonary diseases and respiratory tracts, followed by wet cough, emergence of a phlegm.

Route of administration

Accept collecting for cough in the form of broths.

For preparation of broth from chest collecting No. No. 1, 2 take one tablespoon of a grass, fill in 200 ml of cold water, 15 minutes warm up then 45 minutes insist. Before use broth is filtered, boiled water brought to initial volume (to 200 ml).

The grass from collecting No. No. 3, 4 is prepared also, but take 2 tablespoons of raw materials and fill in them with boiled water, but not cold water.

Broths from collecting No. No. 1, 2 accept hot 3-4 once a day – only 1,5-2 glasses. Infusions from collecting No. No. 3, 4 accept 3 times a day, also hot, 1/3 glasses. Treatment lasts 2-3 weeks.

Broths for children are prepared the same as for adults, but herbs take twice less.

Side effects

The herbs which are a part of collecting at individual intolerance can cause urticaria, rash, an itch on skin, swelled also other allergic reactions.

More serious side effects caused by reception of collecting are not recorded. At overdose emergence of symptoms of poisoning therefore it is necessary to accept broths strictly according to the instruction is possible. The overdose of a Labrador tea which was a part of collecting No. 4 since the plant is considered poisonous is especially dangerous.

Contraindications

Chest collecting according to the instruction cannot be used in the presence of an allergy to their components and in combination with the drugs suppressing a kashlevy reflex and which are applied to treatment of dry cough: terpinkody, stoptussiny, kodelaky, sinekody, libexinum. The last contraindication is explained by the fact that at simultaneous use of such means, different in action, the condition of the patient can be aggravated because of the formed stagnation of a phlegm. Only the combined treatment at which broth from grass collecting is drunk in the afternoon is allowed, and for the night in order that cough disturbed less, above-mentioned drugs are drunk.

Special attention should be paid to a question of a possibility of use of chest collecting at pregnancy. Despite natural structure, collecting No. 1 it is categorically contraindicated since the marjoram which can provoke uterine bleeding enters it. Most often appoint at pregnancy chest collecting at No. 4 – at the correct use it is considered the safest for the woman and a fruit, but without consultation of the doctor it is not recommended to accept collecting all the same. Anyway, as alternative treatment it is better to accept Mucaltinum which is not contraindicated at pregnancy, and to use collecting as a last resort if Mucaltinum or simple folk remedies (for example, milk with soda) do not yield result.