This page has two jobs. First, it explains every plant printed on the label of the bottle we write about, what each one is, and what the research does and does not say about it. Second, it lists the headlines we run, tells you which ones overreach, and separates the few things that are genuinely supported from the many that are not.
You almost certainly arrived here from an advertisement. The headline you clicked was written by us and paid for by us to appear next to real news stories. It was designed to make you stop scrolling, and some of our headlines lean harder on a story than the evidence does.
Everything on this site is a paid advertisement for a product sold by someone else. If you buy through a link on any of our pages, we may be paid a commission. That is the reason this site exists.
The product is a liquid herbal extract sold by WishGarden Herbs of Louisville, Colorado: elecampane root, angelica root, yerba santa leaf, yarrow, hawthorn berry, mullein leaf, yerba mansa root, garlic bulb and osha root, in a base of vegetable glycerine, spring water and organic alcohol. Its name is "Deep Lung, Bronchial Support." The name is a name, not a finding: no study has ever tested this bottle, and the seller's page carries the standard statement that its claims have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. No bottle on this page is a substitute for your own clinician or for anything your clinician has given you.
If your breathing has changed, if the stairs have started counting you, the single most useful thing you can do is let a clinician listen to your chest. That costs you nothing from us, and it is worth more than anything we write about.
| The headline as you saw it | What is actually behind it |
|---|---|
| "The Pump Bottle by the Studio Coffee Maker and the Nine Herbs Inside" | Story, not a claim The bottle is real; Gene, Lupe, the station and the twenty-two stairs are composites, and the story is a dramatization built on the seller's listing, label, reviews and return policy. |
| "Deep Lung, Bronchial Support" | Exaggerated The product's name, not its evidence. Of the nine plants, elecampane has a traditional record and no modern human trials in the sources we read, mullein has a long folk tradition and laboratory chemistry, and the federal summary on hawthorn says there is little or no quality evidence for most uses. Nobody has tested this blend. |
| "Fast-acting" (the seller's wording) | Exaggerated The seller's page says this. We found no study of this bottle that measures how fast anything happens, and we do not repeat the claim. |
| "About $1.35 a serving" | Broadly supported $26.99 for the 2 oz pump bottle, divided by the label's 3 mL serving (a fluid ounce is about 29.6 mL, so about 20 servings), checked against the listing in October 2026. The 1 oz bottle is $15.99 for about 10 servings and the 4 oz is $45.99 for about 39. |
| "A label that tells you when to stop" | Broadly supported The label says up to 5 days of extended use, no more than 10 servings a day, and "Not intended for long term use." |
| "A friend left it by the coffee maker" | Story, not a claim A storytelling device. The customer reviews we quote are real and verbatim, cut with three dots where the full text makes a claim we will not repeat; the friend is a composite. |
Because stories stop the scroll better than ingredient lists do. That is exactly the problem. We keep the honest version of every claim here so you can compare it with the ad side by side.
The most important line on this bottle is near the bottom of the directions: "Limit to: 10 servings per day. Not intended for long term use." The label describes 3 mL in water, and for extended use 3 mL every one to three hours for up to five days. The seller's FAQ mentions longer periods elsewhere; we follow the label.
The seller's policy says that if you are not satisfied you can return the product for a replacement or a refund, and asks you to notify the company within 30 days of purchase. It also says returns caused by the company's error are gladly accepted. If anything about that matters to you, call (303) 516-1803 before ordering, weekdays 8 to 4 Mountain.
First on the label · Traditional
A tall yellow-flowered plant whose root has a long place in European herb gardens. Herbal references describe traditional use centered on the chest, and the sources we reviewed list no modern clinical trials in people. Tradition, not clinical evidence.
Sixth on the label · Folk use and chemistry
The tall fuzzy roadside stalk with yellow flowers. A 2021 review describes a long folk tradition and notes that the leaves and flowers contain mucilages, the slippery compounds that give a soothing film. The review is mostly about traditional use and laboratory work, not trials in people.
Fifth on the label · Little quality evidence
A thorny shrub of the rose family. The federal complementary-health center says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses, that no studies have tested use beyond 16 weeks, and that side effects can include dizziness, nausea and muscle aches. Most hawthorn research uses the leaf and flower; this bottle uses the berry, and chemists have measured far more of the plant's best-studied flavonoids in the leaf than in the fruit.
Eighth on the label · Ask your pharmacist
The kitchen garlic everyone knows. We quote no study on it for this bottle. Together with hawthorn, it is one of the two names we would say out loud to a pharmacist if you take anything daily.
Five mountain and garden plants · Tradition
Angelica is a tall plant of the carrot family long grown in northern Europe; yerba santa is a sticky-leaved California shrub whose name means "holy herb"; yarrow is the white-flowered meadow plant of the Achilles legend; yerba mansa grows in wet ground along Southwestern streams; osha is a carrot-family root of the high Rocky Mountains. All five have long traditions and no study we would quote for this bottle.
Nine plants, none hiding, no amounts printed. One with a traditional record and no modern trials, one with folk use and laboratory chemistry, one where the federal summary says "little or no quality evidence," and six with history and no file. A bottle for a short stretch, by its own label, not a plan for your chest.
Our story quotes the product's name as a name. Here is the plain truth: no clinician, no panel and no medical society has endorsed this page or this bottle. The seller's own page uses confident language about speed, airways and oxygen that we do not repeat, because it goes further than the research does.
The seller's page carries the statement that its claims have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and that the product is not meant to stand in for medical care. That is the sentence that outranks every other sentence we print.
None of our ads should be your health information. If your breathing has changed, the people to talk to are your clinician and your pharmacist, and the things to bring are your questions and any notes you keep. Get care right away for breathlessness at rest, chest tightness that does not ease, lips or fingertips turning blue, coughing up blood, or a high temperature that will not come down.
If you take anything daily, show this label to your pharmacist before the first serving; garlic and hawthorn are the two names we would say out loud. The label says the bottle is not for use while pregnant or nursing, and it contains alcohol.
Every plant printed on the label, in the order printed, with what it is.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This information does not constitute medical advice and it should not be relied upon as such. This product is not a substitute for medication or other treatment prescribed by a physician or health care provider. Consult your doctor before starting any dietary supplement.
Nobody honest can promise that, and the seller's FDA statement says its claims have not been evaluated. Our story describes one composite reader whose clinician said the daily walking showed, and he could not say which of the walking, the humidifier, the weather or the bottle mattered.
Because that is the name the seller chose. A product name is marketing, not evidence, and this guide exists to keep the two apart.
The label says "Not intended for long term use" and describes up to five days of extended use. We follow the label.
The seller's policy asks you to notify the company within 30 days of purchase for a replacement or a refund.
WishGarden Herbs, 321 S. Taylor Ave., Suite 100, Louisville, Colorado 80027. Phone (303) 516-1803, weekdays 8 to 4 Mountain; email [email protected].
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This guide is part of the advertising page it links from. It exists because the ad that brought you here did not tell you the whole story.
If you remember nothing else: this is a liquid extract of nine plants with no amounts printed, the research on its best-known plants is thin or traditional, its name is not a finding, its own label limits it to short stretches, and your clinician outranks all of us.