If your mucus is thick, you may be lacking in reduced gluthathione and have an excess of oxidized glutathione. You have to help your body produce more glutathione.
It's better than simply taking glutathione supplements as these only provide for external glutathione, whereas what you need is internal glutathione. So it is best to provide your body with adequate gelatine for glycine, and meet for cysteine and glutamic acid - and sulfur sources (like garlic, onions, and broccoli)- so that the body can produce internal glutathione needed to increase reduced glutathione such that the GSH/GSSG ratio favors thin mucus over thick mucus. It also ensures you have enough thin mucus that is always there to protect your tissues and capillaries lining up your lungs, bronchi, and alveoli.
I was already eating 2 kg of beef tendons monthly for a while, and I think I have enough glutathione stores to help me quickly recover from bronchiectasis quickly and steadily.
I had used budenoside. Just like ciclenoside, they are corticosteroids that are helpful in reducing inflammation. However, they do not address the cause of the inflammation just as antihistamines do not address the cause of inflammation. As such, they are maintenance drugs that leave you dependent on prescriptive to manage but not cure your lung ailments.
At the start, you will have to rely heavily on them, but when conditions become better, you only turn to using them when needed.
In my case, I used aromatherapy in the form of suppositories of a blend of essential oils to cure myself of my condition. And it worked. I relied on a book written by Kurt Schnaubelt PhD. And it gave me enough information to make my own blend. I was lucky enough that I had covered much material before my lung incident occurred, and it was much easier to get going from the ground up for me and create my own blend.
So if you have time to read up, get the book and brush up on it. It's Advances Aromatherapy: The Science of Essential Oil Therapy, Healing Arts Press 1995.
It isn't pharma medicine, which is narrow in the scope of what it does and does little by way of cure. It is superior in that it offered me a way out of having s breathing disability for the rest of my life. And it worked for me.