YERBA SANTA

This medicine is also known as Yerba Santa. Its common name is Mountain Balm. It is found in California and northern Mexico. This medicine was proved and introduced by Pease. The mother tincture is prepared from fresh leaves and dilution from it. Other references show the mother tincture to have been prepared from the whole plant excluding roots. This is a remedy beneficial in chronic bronchitis, bronchial tuberculosis and asthma when these are attended by profuse, easily raised bronchial secretions which bring relief. It absorps the effusions in pleural cavity and is also indicated in whooping cough.