It's certainly not what the good Dr. Fleming intended.

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For the past 7 years, our family had been using this, after an army brat clued us onto it--saying the French even use it to fight anthrax.


My dosage, and my teen & adult children:

1) 30 drops 3x a day in an 8 ounce glass of water
2) 800mg 3x a day of Guaifenesin
3) Several treatments using a Vics Menthol Disc Vapor Inhaler.


We no longer need any other antibiotics for chest infections. If the kids get a chest cold, it's gone in less than 24-36 hours.

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Do you use this treatment schedule at the onset of symptoms?

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If I let it get really entrenched, where stupidity kicks in and I delay treatment for a several days, it will take a week, which is about the same recovery time as a Z-Pak.


With me, if I took a Z-Pak, I needed a Z-Pak 10. Most doctors like to start with a 5-day dose, which would almost cure me. However, it would just come right back after a few days out of the medication period.


I have not encountered any resistance to Elecampane after 7 years. I want to keep the pharmaceutical options available for me, if they are needed at a later date for when some freakish infection hits.


The key is, NEVER miss a doze of either Elecampane or Guaifenesin, even if you have to set an alarm clock for 2AM or wake the kids up. The trick is to keep the mucus flowing, purge the lungs continually. Regarding the Vics treatments, I do a double-dose, twice on the first day, and then once or twice the following day. I use the same menthol disc, filling up the tiny reservoir with water twice during each treatment.


Oh, depending on the brand, which is best purchased at a health food store, it will either taste like the center part of a carrot or have a earthy taste to it.

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My aunt has copd and chronic bronchitis from years of smoking. She has the same frequent use of antibiotics like you were having. I'm hoping that I can get her to rely less on the antibiotics using your recommendations. She is also allergic to penicillin so her available choices are already limited.

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She uses it too, when she has congestion. Her son, my nephew, uses it for his bronchitis.

Note: These are our own personal experiences, and have no defined medical substantiation, esp. for COPD.

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I would not use this as an alternative to professional medical care. Just looking out for anything that might be beneficial to her.

Elecampane is a herbal distillation from flower in the aster family, not an antibiotic. It may present antimicrobial properties, but this is far different than what antibiotics do.

Also, doctors have known that antibiotics are largely useless for chronic bronchitis for years. This article is 16 years old: http://www.webmd.com/lung/copd/news/20010402/antibiotics-no-help-for-most-emphysema-chronic-bronchitis#1

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They tried some other antibiotic, and that didn't work.

But, I haven't been to the doctor for this in 7 years, so who knows what changed.

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I'm glad to see Amoxicillin is on the access list, but the news release from WHO organization doesn't provide any other antibiotics on the access list.

My docs never seem to prescribe Amoxicillin for me anymore.

It seems their first antibiotic of choice is Azythromycin

Info about the antibiotics begins around page 8.

http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/20th_EML2017.pdf?ua=1