Used as a tea, it is an excellent herb to give for fevers [has an explicit cooling effect and causes light sweating]
It is helpful for bronchitis and chronic nasopharyngeal catarrh.
It has been used as a mild analgesic to relieve cancer pains. [lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, breast cancer [as compresses ]
It may even prevent metastases and is given after operations for this purpose.
One case of a throat tumour [epithelioma of the tonsil] has been described as healed by drinking tea and using compresses !!
The famous medieval Italian medical school of Salerno declared about viola odorata: “to dispel drunkenness and repel migraine……form heavy head it takes the pain, and from feverish cold delivers the brain”.
Can anything be better?
I [have] used viola at the beginning of my practice much more, and I will pick up on it again using it again, combined with Sambucus and tilia [equal parts]