Echinacea and Medicinal Remedies
Echinacea is a flower that is part of the daisy family and commonly grows in the moist and dry sections of the wooden areas in central and eastern North America. Echinacea grows up to 140 cm in height from taproots and have erect stems that are un-branched in most species.It was first used by native Indians to treat common health problems like fever and influenza symptoms and as an antidote for venomous snakebites and other poisonous conditions. After many years of producing positive results, soon the western world also started using Echinacea as a form of herbal treatment for holistic healing.
Modern day scientific studies have shown that Echinacea can be use as a remedy to cold or flu by reducing its symptoms. Further studies also indicates that Echinacea also helps in preventing vaginal yeast infections when it is used together with medicated creams and it also helps burned skin and wounds heal faster just by applying it to the skin because of the antibacterial properties found on it.
Other medical uses of Echinacea include; helping the body stimulate its immune system by using Echinacea orally. Other studies have also shown that this flower also help a great deal in improving the migration and flow of white blood cells of both humans and animals in attacking toxins and foreign microorganisms in the bloodstreams. Additional researches conducted have also revealed that this activity caused by Echinacea in the blood helps in the defense of anti bodies against the forming of tumor cells.
The use of Echinacea as a cure and remedy for a number of ailments made well known anthropologists Melvin Gilmore to write in his book “Well-known Uses of Plants by Indians of the Missouri River Region” which was published in 1919, that Echinacea “is used as remedy for more ailments than any other plant”
Echinacea is also used as a means of holistic treatment and remedies for weight loss, indigestion problems, gastroenteritis and as homeopathy remedy for people with chronic fatigue syndrome.
The most common part of Echinacea used in treating ailments are its dried root and the liquid juice extract from the flower itself. It is often used in combination with vitamin C and goldenseal.
Echinacea has no known side effects and the source for its unique herbal healing powers lies in its magical ingredients especially its herb which is laden with vitamins C, E and A, and other nutritive chemicals and minerals like iron, copper, halogen iodine and potassium. Echinacea is also rich with different kinds of antioxidants, oils, phenols, alkylamides, flavonoids and polysaccharides that help the body get rid of unwanted chemicals.
Echinacea is seen nowadays as a holistic remedy that is not limited to one area of the body only, rather its healing prowess go beyond other parts of the body and spreads its healing nutrients all over to battle unwelcome organisms and cleanse the body system as well.
Echinacea is considered as among the most superior and supreme herbal remedy and holistic healing aid that exists in the world today. No wonder many people are using and trusting Echinacea for their natural holistic healing.
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