Echinacea Leaf

Western Bulk Herbs – Echinacea

Echinacea helps build your immune system to fight of colds, flu, infections, and heal wounds faster. It’s been used for treating a wide range of disorders from yeast infections to minor wounds. Echinacea has antibacterial properties so your body can fight off most infections.

Most people say to not take it all the time because your body will build up immunity to it but that’s a false statement. Your body uses herbs the same way it uses food. When the herb is used up, it needs more to keep fight the illness or disease. So, you feed it more herbs so your body can build a strong immune system. When it’s strong enough to stand on its own that’s when you slow done taking Echinacea. You still take it on regular bases, but you won’t need as much per day as you did when you are building up your immune system.

You can take Echinacea as a tea, tincture, or you can even add it to food, so your body stays strong.

Latin Name:
Echinacea angustifolia and other species

Common Names:
Cone flower, Snakeroot, Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea pallida, Purple Coneflower, and Blacksamson

Parts Used:
The root, leaves, stems and flowers

Properties:
Stimulants, Polysaccharides and Echinaceoside.

Traditional Uses:
Can be made into tinctures, teas, and capsules.

Culinary Uses:
Not used in cooking normally but you can add it to stew and soup after they are done cooking to enhance you and your family’s wellbeing and health.

Chemical Properties:
Oil and resin in wood and bark and masses of inulin, inuloid, sucrose, vulose, betaine, two phytosterols and fatty acids, oleic, cerotic, linolic and palmatic.

Cautions:
GRAS: Generally Recognized as Safe. This herb can be safely consumed when used appropriately.

Folk Lore:
N/A

*Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Resources:
PDR for Herbal Medicines, 2000. Medical Economics Company, Montvale, New Jersey.

The New Holistic Herbal. David Hoffmann, 1990. Barnes and Noble Books, New York.

A Modern Herbal, Mrs. M. Grieve, (Dover Publications, New York, 1971)

Major Herbs of Ayurvedic.Compiled by Dahur Research Foundation and Dahur Ayurvet Limited, Ghaziabad, India., 2002. Churchill Livingstone, London, England.

Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition, Dan Bensky and Andrew Gamble, 1986. Eastland Press, Seattle, WA.