{"id":18486,"date":"2025-09-15T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:39:02","slug":"vapor-balm-for-chest-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/vapor-balm-for-chest-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Vapor Balm for Chest Congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For lung congestion a salve or a massage oil containing essential oils can be rubbed over the chest, back and throat. The oils will be absorbed through the skin and lungs as the vapor is inhaled. Place a flannel fabric on the chest after rubbing in the oil to increase warmth. Commercial \u201cvapor balms\u201d still use derivatives of essential oils (or their synthetic-oil counterparts), such as thymol from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akobi.com\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thyme<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akobi.com\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menthol<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akobi.com\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mint<\/a>, in a petroleum ointment base. Natural alternatives are also sold in natural-food stores.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Vapor Balm for Chest Congestion\" href=\"\/general\/respiratory-conditions\/vapor-balm-for-chest-congestion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(261 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lung congestion a salve or a massage oil containing essential oils can be rubbed over the chest, back and throat. The oils will be absorbed through the skin and lungs as the vapor is inhaled. Place a flannel fabric on the chest after rubbing in the oil to increase warmth. Commercial \u201cvapor balms\u201d still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aromatherapy-recipes","category-respiratory-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}