Echinacea extensively to prevent and treat the common cold, viruses,bactery
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Echinacea Agustifolia is one of the herbs more commonly in use in Western Civilization today. It is used extensively to prevent and treat the common cold as well as many other viruses and bacterial infections. Many people ingest it commonly throughout the cold and flu seasons in order to have an herbal sheild against rampaging germs.
Medicinal Uses
Echinacea is used frequently as an antibiotic, antiseptic, immune stimulator, depurative, digestive, blood purifier, and to produce sweat. It helps to stimulate proper digestion, and as a mouthwash, it can be used for the treatment of painful gums and toothaches. An infusion can be made of the herb which can help to aid in arthritis pain, tonsillitis, tuberculosis, smallpox, psoriasis, mumps, bronchitis, whooping cough, measles, meningitis, general wounds, and mild to severe ear infections.
Echinacea helps the body's natural ability to fight invaders through a natural antibiotic which it contains called echinacoside, which has been compared to penicillin. It has successfully treated Rheumatoid Arthritis in Germany (where herbs are much more readily available for medicinal usage). Apply Echinacea to burns and wounds on the skin to promote quicker tissue recovery and healing. It also helps to stimulate the body's cells to produce a chemical which is naturally produced by the white blood cells while fighting infection. This chemical is called interferon. Echinacea, in combination with antifungal cream also helps to stop reacurring vaginal yeast infections when taken orally 43% better than anti-fungal cream alone. Echinacea kills a variety of disease-causing viruses, fungi and bacteria.
Make sure, when purchasing Echinacea that you purchase Agustifolia for maximum effect. Other types including the popular Purple Coneflower are a much weaker version and will probably have little to no benificial medicinal affects. The medicinal part of the plant is the rootstock.
Folk History
Some other names for Echinacea (not being exclusive to Agustifolia) are Black Sampson, Purple Coneflower, and Sampson Root.
Magical Uses
Echinacea is often used in spells to stregthen their power, just as the herb is used to strengthen the immune system. It was used by the Native Americans not only to stregthen their spells, but as a precious offering to spirits.
Harvesting and Growing
Echinacea Agustifolia prefers dry and open areas, it is a perinneal North American native plant. Spread out the seeds without pushing them into the soil and keep watered. It grows best in full sun, and the best time to pull the roots and harvest the plant is in Autumn.
Dosage
When taking a tincture of echinacea, take fifteen to thirty drops in a small amount of hot water every three hours. To make a decoction of echinacea, use one to two teaspoons of the dried root to one cup of water, drink one tablespoon up to 5 times a day. For best results with arthritis pain, drink as a decoction. Make sure your echinacea is still good by checking its odor-- if it doesn't have one, don't use it!
Warning:
Echinacea can cause a tingling sensation in the mouth when ingested, but this is natural and dissapates after a few minutes. Echinacea is listed with the FDA as "undefined safety" due to the fact that no one has ever had a toxic reaction to the herb.
