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Brief Background:
 | The use of hyssop as
an herbal remedy dates back to ancient times. It is mentioned as a cleansing agent (although these references may be
to other species of hyssop such as Origanum aegypticum or to Origanum syriacum, rather than Hyssopus
officinalis). | | Hyssop has been prescribed for
a multitude of medical conditions. It has been traditionally used as an antispasmodic, expectorant, emmenagogue, stimulant,
carminative, peripheral vasodilator, anti-inflammatory, anticatarrhal, antispasmodic, tonic and sweat-inducer. However, both
the alcoholic extract and decoction have been used to inhibit sweating. Hyssop is used specifically for cough, bronchitis
and chronic catarrhal, and also for its tonic effects on the digestive, urinary, nervous and bronchial systems. Hot hyssop
decoction vapors have also been used to treat inflammation and tinnitus . |
Expert Opinion and Historic/Folkloric
Precedent:
| Many of the most well-known
doctors of history have recommended hyssop to their patients. Egyptian physicians prescribed it for pleurisy, asthma
and phlegm. |
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