Symptoms:

An acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes.

Cause:

This is a condition from improper diet and results in bowel problems.  Relieving the effects of the condition will not heal it.  Bronchitis usually develops from a cold which settles in the lungs and develops into a chronic condition if not healed, eventually going into consumption or tuberculosis.

Herbal aids:

Comfrey and almond are specifics for bronchitis.  Since constipation is one of the chief causes of the problem, the bowels must be cleared and kept open with the lower bowel tonic or herbal laxatives.  If one has shortness of breath and needs the throat cleared of mucus, he can use an emetic.  Cayenne is very effective for cutting the phlegm, as are fruit juices such as grapefruit, lemon, orange, or pineapple.  Chickweed, comfrey, marshmallow or mullein are the greatest cleansers to get the mucus out of the body.  One can relax the throat, stomach, and bronchi rapidly with a very small amount of lobelia.  Other useful aids for relief are a hot vapor or steam bath followed by a cold shower or sponging; also hot fomentation of pleurisy root or mullein (with lobelia in it) on the chest and spine.  If you want to speed up any fomentation, add cayenne as a counterirritant.

Useful herbs:

Abscess root, Acadia (mucilage), anise seed, asthma weed, aya pana, balsam of copaiba, balsam of fir, balsam of tolu, beth root, bitter candy tuft, blood root, blue violet, calamus, cascarilla bark, cayenne, chickweed, cleavers (small), coltsfoot, comfrey root, copaiba, cubeb berries, elecampane root, fennel, flaxseed, garlic, ginger, golden seal, grindelia robusta, gum arabic, hickory bark, horehounds, hyssop herb, Irish moss, Indian turnip, Iceland moss, Ivy (American), jaborandi, licorice, lungwort, marshmallow, mullein leaves, myrrh, old fashioned balsam, onion, Peruvian balsam, pleurisy root, red root, red sage, sanicle, saw palmetto berries, Senegal, senna, skunk cabbage, slippery elm bark, snake weed, spikenard, stillingia, sumbul, sunflower seeds, thoroughwort, wahoo bark, wake robin, walnut leaves, water fennel seed, white pine, white pond lily, wild cherry bark, yerba santa leaves.