Antioxidant - Echinacea

Echinacea angustifolia [Echinacea purpurea, Purple] is a herb widely used for boosting the immune system. It also has some antioxidant effect; helping the body prevent thymus gland involution.

Echinacea has in the past been used to treat common fevers and minor infections, as well as infectious diseases such as typhoid, meningitis, malaria and diptheria.

How Echinacea Works

Echinacea works primarily by acting as a blockade to one of the major ways in which we can become infected, making the body resistive to the destructive enzyme activity, and then facilitates fibrous connective tissue regeneration, necessary and essential for healing. It also exhibits antiinflammatory effects, showing cortisone-like activity.

Echinacea is powerful in:

• destroying the germs of infection directly and increasing the white blood count, boosting the bodies natural defences.
• has antiseptic and anesthetic properties.
• helps detoxify and pull waste residues out of the lymph glands.
• boosts the primary defense systems of the body, the HA-System  forming an effective barrier against invading disease.
• helps prevent rheumatism and tumor formation and the beginning of malignancy

Research has shown Echinacea to exhibit interferon-like activity, increasing T-cell action, stimulating the Lymph system to carry waste tissue away from areas of infection, and protect cells against virus related diseases.

Benefits of Echinacea

As a Homeopathic or a micro-nutritional, Echinacea has proven effective in the treatment and prevention of:

• tiredeness, exhaustion, feeling sick
• muscular weakness - general aching all over, with exhaustion
• reduced red blood corpuscles - in cases of blood poisoning and septic conditions
• symptoms of blood-poisoning, septic conditions, venom infection
• cerebrospinal meningitis
• prevent tendency to malignancy
• pain relief in the last stages of cancer
• prevent infectious conditions - recurring boils, carbuncles, enlarged lymphatic glands, ulcers, gangrene,; bed sores
• antidotal to vaccinal poisoning

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