Sticta pulmonaria (Lobaria pulmonaria) - Lungwort
"CONSTITUENTS: -
PREPARATIONS: Specific Medicine Sticta; dose: from one-tenth to ten minims.
Therapy: In coughs of acute bronchitis, with the indications named, it is useful; in cough, with wheezing and tightness—asthmatic cough, with the characteristic quick, sharp pains, it. is indicated. It also influences directly the post-nasal mucosa.
It is valuable in some forms of catarrh, especially if there is reflex irritation. It has been used in whooping-cough and in croupal coughs.
Sticta has been suggested in rheumatism where the muscles of the chest are involved, where there is sharp, quick pain on respiration or where the muscles of the shoulder are sore and tender, where the muscles of the neck are involved.
The remedy has been used in scarlet fever to good advantage, but we have no specific directions for its administration in these cases beyond those named.
It has a specific influence in the treatment of those forms of hay fever and in those attacks of influenza characterized by the discharge of a hot, irritating, watery mucous, which afterwards becomes thick, bloody, greenish or yellow.
The catarrhal disorders to which this remedy is applicable are characterized by headache, with tearing pains through the side of the face and lower jaw, with pressure in the forehead, at the root of the nose, coryza, conjunctivitis, soreness and dull pains in the chest."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)