Ingredients
Lungora Ingredients List: The Six Names on the Label
Six ingredients are named on this label. One carries an amount. The other five can still be bounded — not because the label discloses them, but because the one amount it does print is enough to work out what is left.
Lungora contains six ingredients, led by 80 mg of magnesium as magnesium glycinate.
All six sit in a 575 mg proprietary blend: magnesium glycinate, alpha lipoic acid, butcher's broom, L-carnitine, turmeric (95% curcuminoids) and coenzyme Q10.
Read the label row by row on the supplement facts page.
Magnesium (as Magnesium Glycinate)
C₄H₈MgN₂O₄ · 80 mg elemental · 19% of the Daily Value · FDA Daily Value 420 mg. NIH Tolerable Upper Intake Level 350 mg from supplements.
Eighty milligrams against a Daily Value of 420 is 19%, exactly as printed, and it sits well under the NIH’s Tolerable Upper Intake Level of 350 mg for supplemental magnesium. As a magnesium dose it is modest and unobjectionable. The form is a chelate of magnesium with two glycine molecules, and the label names it, which it is required to do: the FDA’s labeling guide states that “dietary ingredients having RDIs or DRVs must be listed separately and the individual weights declared”, blend or no blend. What is not required, and what this label does anyway, is the phrase “from proprietary blend”. That phrase is the single most informative thing on the bottle. It ties the 80 mg to the 575 mg row underneath, and because the elemental magnesium is only about a seventh of the compound by weight, it lets a reader work out how much of that 575 mg is magnesium glycinate and how much is everything else. The answer is about 567 mg and about 8 mg respectively. On absorption the NIH notes only that “forms of magnesium that dissolve well in liquid are more completely absorbed in the gut than less soluble forms”; it names aspartate, citrate, lactate and chloride as better absorbed than oxide and sulfate, and does not rank glycinate at all.
“The Tolerable Upper Intake Level for supplemental magnesium is 350 mg for adults.”
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements — Magnesium — Health Professional Fact Sheet
Cautions and interactions
The NIH records that magnesium supplements can interact with bisphosphonates and with some antibiotics, both of which should be taken hours apart from magnesium, and that loop and thiazide diuretics increase magnesium loss while long-term proton pump inhibitors can lower magnesium. None of that appears on this label.
Alpha Lipoic Acid
a compound the body also makes · at most 7.5 mg · NCCIH covers it under diabetes. No respiratory indication.
Alpha lipoic acid is a compound the body synthesises and which also occurs in food. It is second in the blend, which under the descending-order rule makes it the largest of the five ingredients that share what the magnesium glycinate leaves — about 7.5 mg at the very most, and probably less. The research file that exists is about diabetes, not breathing. NCCIH reports that “alpha-lipoic acid was no better than placebo at reducing levels of blood sugar, cholesterol, or triglycerides”, that for diabetic nerve pain it “might help reduce pain” with “3 studies found improvements in symptoms, and 5 studies did not”, and that it “did not improve kidney dysfunction in people with diabetes”. Nothing in that file concerns the lungs, and none of those trials used anything close to a single-digit milligram dose.
“Alpha-lipoic acid was no better than placebo at reducing levels of blood sugar, cholesterol, or triglycerides.”
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health — Diabetes and Dietary Supplements: What You Need To Know
Cautions and interactions
NCCIH lists headache, heartburn, nausea and vomiting as the commonest side effects. Anyone taking medication for blood sugar should raise it with their prescriber, and NCCIH’s wider instruction on that page is worth repeating: “it’s very important not to replace medical treatment for diabetes with an unproven health product or practice.”
Butcher’s Broom Root Extract
Ruscus aculeatus — root · at most 3.7 mg · No fact sheet at NIH ODS or NCCIH under this name.
This is the shortest entry on the page and it is short for a reason. Searching the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and NCCIH for butcher’s broom and for Ruscus aculeatus returns no fact sheet, no monograph and no summary of evidence. The only hits in the NIH’s own databases are entries in the Dietary Supplement Label Database — that is, photographs of other products’ labels, which is a record of what is being sold rather than of what is known. So this site has nothing to report about butcher’s broom in either direction. It is not saying the ingredient does nothing; it is saying that the bodies this desk relies on have not published on it, and that inventing a summary from elsewhere would be exactly the thing this site exists to avoid. The label does at least print the species and the plant part, which is good practice. Its ceiling here is about 3.7 mg.
Cautions and interactions
Nothing can be offered here. With no monograph there is no published side-effect profile, no interaction list and no dose ceiling to report, and this site will not assemble one from sources it does not stand behind.
L-Carnitine
an amino-acid derivative · at most 2.5 mg · NIH ODS: healthy adults do not need to consume it.
L-carnitine is fourth in the blend and capped at roughly 2.5 mg. Two things follow, and only one of them depends on the amount. The one that does not is the NIH’s plain statement that “healthy children and adults do not need to consume carnitine from food or supplements because the liver and kidneys synthesize sufficient amounts to meet daily needs”. The one that does is the scale: where carnitine is studied at all — for athletic performance — the doses are 1 to 4 grams a day, which is between four hundred and sixteen hundred times the ceiling on this label, and the NIH’s summary of that literature is that it is “mixed”. There is no lung or respiratory indication in the fact sheet at all.
“Healthy children and adults do not need to consume carnitine from food or supplements because the liver and kidneys synthesize sufficient amounts to meet daily needs.”
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements — Carnitine — Health Professional Fact Sheet
Cautions and interactions
At gram doses the NIH records nausea, cramps and a fishy body odour. At a ceiling of 2.5 mg none of that is in prospect — which is the point: an amount too small to cause a side effect is generally too small to do anything else either.
Turmeric Rhizome Extract, 95% Curcuminoids
Curcuma longa — rhizome · at most 1.9 mg · NCCIH: no definitive conclusion for any health purpose.
Turmeric is the ingredient this label treats best and the one the arithmetic treats worst. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) Rhizome Extract 95% Curcuminoids names the species, the plant part and the standardisation — three columns most labels in this trade leave blank, and the only standardisation anywhere on this bottle. It is fifth of six, so its ceiling is about 1.9 mg of extract, which at 95% is about 1.8 mg of curcuminoids. NCCIH’s summary of the whole field is that “we don’t know enough to definitively conclude if turmeric or curcumin is beneficial for any health purposes”, and it notes that “oral curcumin products vary in how much curcumin they actually contain” and that bioavailability is poor without something like piperine, which this label does not include. The trials behind that summary use hundreds of milligrams to grams. A standardisation figure is only ever as useful as the weight it is a percentage of.
“We don't know enough to definitively conclude if turmeric or curcumin is beneficial for any health purposes.”
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health — Turmeric: Usefulness and Safety
Cautions and interactions
NCCIH notes that “highly bioavailable formulations of curcumin… may harm your liver” and that “liver damage has been reported in some people who have consumed these bioavailable formulations”. It also says turmeric supplements “may be unsafe” in pregnancy. This product is not a high-bioavailability formulation and the ceiling is under two milligrams, so neither point bites here; both are worth knowing if you take turmeric from somewhere else as well.
Coenzyme Q10 (as Ubiquinone)
also made by the body · at most 1.5 mg · NCCIH: naturally present in the body; interacts with warfarin.
Coenzyme Q10 is last of the six, which under the descending-order rule makes it the smallest thing in the blend — about 1.5 mg at most. NCCIH describes it as “a substance that is naturally present in the human body, with the highest levels in the heart, liver, kidneys, and pancreas”, and its summary of the trial literature is a series of null results: CoQ10 “has not been shown to be of value in treating cancer”, “probably doesn’t have a meaningful effect on blood pressure”, and the evidence “does not support the idea that CoQ10 can reduce muscle pain caused by… statins”. No respiratory indication appears. Ubiquinone is also fat-soluble and poorly absorbed from a dry capsule without fat, which is one more reason a milligram-and-a-half ceiling is worth knowing about.
“Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a substance that is naturally present in the human body, with the highest levels in the heart, liver, kidneys, and pancreas.”
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health — Coenzyme Q10
Cautions and interactions
NCCIH reports that “no serious side effects of CoQ10 have been reported”, with insomnia or digestive upset occasionally. It may interact with the anticoagulant warfarin and with insulin, and “may not be compatible with some types of cancer treatment”. The label mentions none of those.
How the ceilings are derived
Five of the six entries above carry a ceiling rather than an amount. Not one of those ceilings is printed on the bottle, and every one of them is forced by it.
Two rules do the work, and both are the FDA’s own:
“You must identify proprietary blends by use of the term “Proprietary Blend” or an appropriately descriptive term or fanciful name. On the same line, you must list the total weight of all “other dietary ingredients” contained in the blend. Indented underneath the name of the blend, you must list the “other dietary ingredients” in the blend, either in a column or linear fashion, in descending order of predominance by weight. … Dietary ingredients having RDIs or DRVs must be listed separately and the individual weights declared.”
U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide: Chapter IV. Nutrition Labeling
The second half of that quotation is the part most readers never need: because magnesium has a Daily Value, its weight must be declared separately even though it sits inside the blend. That requirement, plus the words “from proprietary blend” which the label added voluntarily, is what turns an undisclosed formula into an arithmetic problem with an answer.
A ceiling is not an amount
Every figure in the second column above is an upper limit. The true amounts are at or below their ceilings and could be lower still. The ceilings are useful because they can only be beaten downwards — when a ceiling is already far below any dose that has been studied, as turmeric’s is, the conclusion holds whatever the real figure turns out to be.
What none of the six has
This is a product called a Lung Cleanse Formula. Here is what searching the two bodies this desk relies on returns for each ingredient, under the names printed on the panel.
| Ingredient | Monograph found? | Respiratory or lung indication? |
|---|---|---|
| Magnesium | Yes — NIH ODS | No. The fact sheets cover blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and migraine. Lungs, breathing and asthma are not mentioned. |
| Alpha lipoic acid | Yes — NCCIH, under diabetes | No. |
| Butcher’s broom | No — none at either body | Cannot be answered. |
| L-Carnitine | Yes — NIH ODS | No. |
| Turmeric / curcumin | Yes — NCCIH | No. |
| Coenzyme Q10 | Yes — NCCIH | No. |
Six ingredients, five monographs, zero respiratory indications. That is a statement about what can be cited, not a verdict on the ingredients — absence of a monograph is absence of information, and four of the five monographs that do exist are simply about something else. But on a product named after an organ it is the first thing a reader should know. The mechanism page works through what follows from it.
What this label does well
It would be easy to read the rest of this site as a verdict on the whole label. It is not, and the parts done properly are worth listing in one place — particularly because one of them is what makes the analysis possible at all.
Done well
- All six blend ingredients are named. Many proprietary blends name three and say “and others”.
- Both botanicals print their Latin binomial and their plant part — root and rhizome.
- The turmeric prints a standardisation: 95% curcuminoids. It is the only one on the bottle and most labels print none.
- The magnesium row names its chemical form and adds “from proprietary blend”, which no rule requires.
- The Daily Value percentage is arithmetically correct.
- The Other Ingredients line is complete and names five excipients.
- The caution block names under-18s, pregnancy, nursing, medication and medical conditions.
Not done
- No amount for five of the six blend ingredients.
- No standardisation for the butcher’s broom.
- No statement of which magnesium glycinate is used — pure chelate or buffered.
- No street address for the distributor.
- No country of manufacture, and the “made in USA” mark supplied is misprinted.
- No allergen statement, and no source given for the magnesium stearate or stearic acid.
- Nothing anywhere telling a buyer with breathing symptoms to see a clinician.
The fourth item in the first column is the one to dwell on. “From proprietary blend” is four words the label did not have to print, and printing them is what lets a reader convert a hidden formula into five ceilings. It is the most useful phrase on the bottle, and it works against the product.
What is not published
- The amount of five of the six ingredients in the blend. Only the magnesium carries a figure.
- Which magnesium glycinate is used — the pure chelate or a buffered one. The elemental percentage, and therefore the whole mass balance, turns on it.
- A standardisation for butcher’s broom. Turmeric is the only ingredient that carries one.
- Any price at all. No pack list and no figures were supplied with this product.
- A street address for the distributor. The label gives a city, a state and a zip.
- A country of manufacture. The label artwork says nothing, and the “made in USA” roundel is misprinted.
- A certifying body for the GMP mark, and a registration number for the FDA-registered-facility mark.
- The name of the doctor behind the “Doctor Formulated” emblem, or any credential.
- Whether magnesium stearate and stearic acid are plant- or animal-derived, which is what the vegetarian mark turns on.
- An allergen statement.
- A best-before date. None is legible on the images supplied.
- A Certificate of Analysis document. We have the reference LUN-8072-26-LU but not the file.
- Any monograph for butcher’s broom at the bodies this desk reads.
- Any respiratory or lung indication for any of the six ingredients, at either body.
- Any customer rating that could be verified. The seller pack calls its own review block layout copy.
The second line is the one this desk would ask about first. The batch page has the call script, and a Certificate of Analysis would settle the rest, because a certificate reports quantities ingredient by ingredient.
References
Eleven sources, all opened and read. Every quotation on this page is copied from the page linked here.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide: Chapter IV. Nutrition Labeling.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels.
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (2026). Magnesium — Health Professional Fact Sheet.
- PubChem, National Library of Medicine (2026). Magnesium Glycinate, CID 84645.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2025). Turmeric: Usefulness and Safety.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2019). Coenzyme Q10.
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (2026). Carnitine — Health Professional Fact Sheet.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2023). Diabetes and Dietary Supplements: What You Need To Know.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2025). “Detoxes” and “Cleanses”: What You Need To Know.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2022). Asthma and Complementary Health Approaches: What You Need To Know.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Questions and Answers on Dietary Supplements.
Read the magnesium row before you decide
Thirty capsules, one a day. One amount is printed on this label — 80 mg of magnesium — and it is the amount that tells you what is left of the 575 mg blend for the other five ingredients. The live price and the 60-day return terms are both on the seller’s checkout screen.
60-day window · Questions first? The FAQ page answers most of them.