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Quercetin has potentially beneficial therapeutic effects for several diseases, including cigarette smoking–induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CS-COPD). Many studies have shown that quercetin's antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties have positive therapeutic potential for CS-COPD.May 8, 2023

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17534666231170800#:~:text=Quercetin%20has%20potentially%20beneficial%20therapeutic,therapeutic%20potential%20for%20CS%2DCOPD.

Quercetin with zinc is a treatment for COVID and zinc itself is featured in a video below for another respiratory disease, so including zinc with the quercetin seems like a sensible idea. It's cheap at WalMart and other places as well.

2022: Could zinc be the key to stopping this deadly lung disease?

2023: New treatment for people with COPD, emphysema at Penn Medicine

Can you use mullein for COPD? Personally yes, some benefit, though it's often combined with elecampane and other mucus thinning herbs. The usual precautions apply. Here's a Cleveland Clinic article about mullein. Mullein Tea for COPD

https://www.copdfoundation.org/COPD360social/Community/Questions-and-Answers/Mullein-Tea-for-COPD.aspx#:~:text=Personally%20yes%2C%20some%20benefit%2C%20though,Cleveland%20Clinic%20article%20about%20mullein.

Mullein for COPD is also used in folk medicine. The leaves contain an extract with powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that helps to rid the body of mucus and soothes the raw, inflamed tracts of your system, like your throat.Jul 17, 2023 Mullein Benefits, Uses and How to Make the Tea - Dr. Axe

https://draxe.com/nutrition/mullein/#:~:text=Mullein%20for%20COPD%20is%20also,your%20system%2C%20like%20your%20throat.

Man who treated stage III COPD with cannabis off all meds and back to work full time

12/16/2014 - Back in April of 2014, this author presented an article about how cannabis is very helpful for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). The story of Jeff Waters, diagnosed with stage III COPD at the age of 36, was featured in that article. Some may wonder how he's doing now. First a quick review...

Cannabis oil from marijuana is having success treating COPD

4/10/2014 - COPD is the often used term for "Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," a rather clumsy and vague description for most of us. It includes a few different lung issues, such as emphysema, bronchiectasis and chronic bronchitis. The scary part is that it's a mystery to our pharmaceutical-dependent medical...

IV vitamin C infusions reduce muscle fatigue associated with COPD

12/5/2013 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a rather vague name for a chronic disorder that inhibits breathing and oxygen delivery to the blood. It manifests in decreased lung capacity from various reasons and inhibits breathing. It can get progressively worse, leading to chronic bronchitis or...

Acupuncture relieves COPD: Scientific research

4/9/2013 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commonly called COPD, has become the number three disease killer, behind cardiovascular disease and cancer. COPD is a progressive disease. It just gets worse, and mainstream medicine has no cure. Medical doctors usually recommend smoking cessation and offer...

COPD Treatments: Easy lifestyle changes to improve quality of life

1/22/2013 - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is mainly caused by smoking. Subjecting the lungs to cigarette smoke for a prolonged period of time degenerates and damages the healthy cells of lungs and with time, breathing becomes compromised. Much of the COPD treatments are aimed at preventing further...

Scientists discover natural therapies treat COPD

5/23/2011 - At the national meeting of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), currently underway in Denver, much of the research presented has dealt so far with COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. COPD is a serious and progressive disease that makes it difficult to breathe. The miserable symptoms it...

Vitamin E Protects the Lungs from Deadly Diseases

7/8/2010 - In the year 2000 it was estimated that approximately 16 million people suffered from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a progressive disease that hinders breathing. In the same year, COPD was responsible for the death of 2.74 million people. This number comes from the World Health Organization...

COPD Treatments: Alternative Measures Ease Symptoms

11/26/2009 - COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the US. COPD results in an obstruction of the airways leading to the lungs. As a result, COPD causes severe shortness of breath (dyspnea). COPD is usually a disease that results from years of smoking. This respiratory...

Lung Disease Medication Linked To Cardiac Deaths

10/16/2008 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a medical term that actually encompasses two lung diseases, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both are characterized by partial obstruction of the airways that allow you to breathe. The result for those with COPD is a feeling of shortness of breath and,...

Beta-agonist inhalers more than double death rate in COPD patients, analysis shows (press release)

9/5/2006 - A new analysis that compares two common inhalers for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) finds that one reduces respiratory-related hospitalizations and respiratory deaths, but the other -- which is prescribed in the majority of cases -- increases respiratory deaths....