Russian Experience: There are two species of Lungwort growing in Russia, Pulmonary obscura or Lungwort obscura and Pulmonaria angustifolia( narrow-leave Lungwort). Both species are used for the same purpose. In this case, as with many other of our Folk Medicines around the world, the people have independently found the useful properties of the plant and named them according to the most influential action on certain parts of the body, such as the attractive Lungwort. Latin name: Pulmonary( Pulm— Lung). Russian name: Legochnitza( Legkie— Lung). English name: Lungwort( from the lung). Folk Medicine: The medical properties of Lungwort have long been accepted as Emollient, Mild Astringent, Tonic and a natural source of minerals for stomach and intestinal sickness and lung and pulmonary conditions. There has been recent( 1963 – 5) reports in medical literature of Lungwort being used with other compounds. Externally: Vulnerary for dressing and washing wounds, swellings and amenorrhoea, as it is antiseptic. Clinically: Moscow Medical Institute( 1963 – 5) has conducted experimental work and the findings give support to Folk Medicine wisdom and belief. To those of us who like to know what herbal medicine contains, and why it repairs the body’ s ills, perhaps the following contents of the plant will help us realize that they contain many of the live elements we also are made of, or are necessary for healthy blood. Lungwort contains Vitamins C and B; minerals: iron, copper, silver, manganese, kerotin, titan, nickel, to mention a few of the necessities. Further study by the medical world is expected to produce spectacular findings.
LUNGWORT Pulmonaria officinalis, L.( Vishaya Schkolla, Moscow, 1963)