It is better for lung and nephridium, also has good effect for chough, sputum with blood, asthma, waist ache, weakness after illness, tinnitus, forgettery, etc.
This paper studies the results and pharmacologic effects of the liquid extracted from Elephantopus scaber L. in curing three major symptoms of bronchitis (cough, sputum and stridor).
It has the main treatment effects on the following as: inappetence, poor appetite, stuffy feeling in chest, stool constipate, sputum stasis, fat body, ebriety, naupathia and others.
Occasionally in the sputum there might be curschmann spirals, which are spiral shaped mucus plugs or basically elongated mucous casts from small bronchi of people with bronchial asthma.
The most precise type of testing for COVID-19, the molecular kind, starts by reaching deep inside a person's nose and throat to extract sputum — the gunk that gets ejected through coughing, sneezing, spitting, and even singing.