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The EPA said that both times, the state recorded high levels of particulate matter, which can cause heart attacks, asthmas and chronic health conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
They give an infusion of it in colds, coughs, asthmas, and consumptions.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones
The Leaves.—They have a subtile subacrid taste, and are recommended as vulneraries, and in asthmas and hectic fevers, and such disorders as are occasioned by drinking cold liquors when the body has been much heated.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Besides the general virtues of aromatics, they are particularly recommeded in humoral asthmas, coughs, and other disorders of the breast and lungs; and said to notably promote expectoration.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Oh, ye! who pine, in London smoke immur'd, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncur'd, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatisms, coughs, blue-devils!
From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent
