Elecampane Wallpaper, Inula helenium

Check out these Elecampane wallpaper images we made for you!

This week we’re featuring Elecampane, Inula helenium.

You might know Elecampane as a respiratory support herb – and i gotta say, it’s one of the most important ones in my practice. If i had to choose one and only one herb for respiratory support, it would be Elecampane! It’s really the “swiss army knife” of respiratory herbs – it helps make coughing more productive so you can cough less often (it’s expectorant AND anti-tussive!), it helps strengthen the lungs so you can breathe easier, and it’s got quorum sensing inhibition actions – otherwise known as a “biofilm buster”.

But that’s not all it can do!

Elecampane also helps digestive health – it’s one of the few warming bitters, which helps a sluggish digestive system. It’s also got lots of inulin, which is an insoluble fiber that our microbiome uses as food. (That’s where the latin name comes from!) This only works if you take it in decoction, or eat the root – you won’t get this effect from a tincture. But it’s worth it, especially if you’re working on improving your microbiome health.

Elecampane has a lot of emotional benefits too – especially in situations of grief, or making shifts in our lives that are challenging, scary, or uncomfortable. Think about it as “breathing life into the change you want to/must make” – it’s a poetic way of thinking about it, but when we’re talking about emotional actions, poetry can be very helpful!

Learn more about working with Elecampane:

• In relation to improving digestive function & the microbiome in the Digestive Health course
• In relation to its actions on emotional health in the Neurological & Emotional Health course
• In relation to grief in Working with Grief
• In relation to respiratory infections & strengthening the lungs in the Respiratory Health course

And naturally, Elecampane is featured in our Materia Medica course, where you’ll learn over 100 of the most important herbs in our practice!

Download the wallpapers:

Laptop/desktop wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image to download. Then find the image on your device and select “Set Desktop Picture”.

Phone wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image or hold on the image for the alt-menu, then select “Save to photos”. Find the picture in your photos and select “Use as Wallpaper”. You may need to “pinch” it in or out to either scale it down to fit your phone or scale it up to fit your phone, depending on which model you have.

You can also go back and view our full set of herbal wallpaper images.