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About Echinacea
Immune stimulant
A number of
immuno-stimulatory compounds have been isolated from echinacea. Echinacea elevates white blood cell count and activity, enhances antibody activity, speeds migration of white blood cells to areas of infection, boosts interferon activity and inhibits hyaluronidase (an enzyme that allows pathogenic organisms to become more invasive).
Anti-bacterial
Echinacea exerts a mild anti-bacterial effect on the body. For example, two compounds found in
echinacea, echinacoside and caffeic acid, inhibit the growth of staphylococcus
aureas, corynebacterium diptheria, and proteus vulgaris.
Anti-viral
The various components of echinacea appear to block viral receptor sites on cell surfaces as well as having an inhibiting effect on
hyaluronidase, which increases connective tissue permeability and allows the organism to become more invasive.
Anti-fungal
Studies have shown that echinacea specifically enhances the ability of macrophages (white blood cells which 'eat' pathogens) to destroy fungal organisms such as candida
albicans.
Anti-inflammatory
Studies suggest that polysaccharides in echinacea exert anti-inflammatory activity, primarily due to what has been reported as a 'cortisone-like' effect.
Wound healing
It has been reported that echinacea speeds up the healing of damaged tissue - an action that appears to be associated with an ability to promote connective tissue regeneration and the herb's anti-inflammatory properties.
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Herbs
For thousands of years, herbs have been used to help maintain many aspects of
health and wellness. Today, research and technology are bringing herbalism into
the modern age – with improved extraction, standardization, and farming methods.
Clinical studies are beginning to validate herbal therapies, so even some in the
medical community are starting to accept them.
Many of today’s
medicines were originally derived from botanicals. Aspirin once came from the
white willow tree, quinine from the bark of the cinchona tree, and digitalis
from foxglove. Herbs are still the basis for Chinese medicine and are important
constituents of many European natural remedies. As Hippocrates said, “Let they
food by thy medicine, thy medicine be thy food”.
Some of the herbs
available on this site are wild-crafted – grown in the wild – while others are
meticulously cultivated on herb farms.
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