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What Echinacea herb Is:

The most frequently used plant among early Native Americans and the most popular herbal supplement in the United States today, echinacea is second only to garlic as the best that nature has to offer. It's the herbal equivalent of vitamin C. Widely used in America during the nineteenth century, the plant was supplanted by synthetic medications in the twentieth century. Laboratory explorers in Europe later picked up the herbal ball that the New World dropped. Thanks to them, we now know that our Native American predecessors were right all along.

Nine species of the plant, also called purple coneflower, grow perennially throughout midwestern North America, as far north as Saskatchewan and as far south as Texas. Three of them—E. purpurea, E. pallida, and E. angustifolia—are the most used and most studied. The echinacea species can be difficult to tell apart. All have bright, strikingly pretty purple flowers, except for E. paradoxa, whose flowers are yellow. E. angustifolia has narrow leaves; E. purpurea sports wider, serrated leaves. Herbalists argue over which species is best, just as they debate which part of the plant has the most medicinal value. All variants possess phytochemicals that improve the immune system.

Highly valued by the American Indians, echinacea herb is now used all over the world. It stimulates the immune system, helps in tissue healing and has antiinflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and anti-cancer effects.

Echinacea effects

Echinacea has long been used to treat infections such as colds and flu. It is also useful in aiding wound-healing, treating arthritis and alleviating the side effects of chemotherapy.

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