Echinacea - Medicinal Properties And Uses

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Echinacea - a panacea for all diseases

This wonderful culture is today one of the most popular medicinal plants in the world. The reason for this is the tremendous healing power and the extraordinary breadth of therapeutic use. It can be said without any exaggeration that echinacea quickly and effectively treats a huge number of diseases without side effects, addiction and reducing the effectiveness of drugs prepared from it.

Echinacea purpurea is a tall and unusually beautiful plant of the Asteraceae family. Its historical homeland is the prairie and sandy river banks in the east of North America and the USA, where it was known to the indigenous peoples of the continent to the Indians from time immemorial. They widely used echinacea for snake bites, epilepsy, sepsis, gonorrhea, colds, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, inflammation of the gums and oral cavity, for diseases of the teeth, female genital organs, purulent wounds, burns, smallpox, measles, arthritis, arthrosis, radiculitis, psoriasis, gout. With this plant, they successfully cured many diseases that were considered incurable in the Old World, and many died from them.

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Overseas miracle heals not bad

Having got to Europe with the first colonizers, the plant became a real sensation in the scientific world. In 1871, the most famous German physician of that time, H. G. Meyer, patented a new drug called "blood purifier", the main component of which was echinacea. The obtained drug was used to successfully treat old chronic ulcers, herpes fever, boils, carbuncles, hemorrhoids, dry and weeping eczema, gangrene, typhoid fever, malaria, sclerosis, senile frailty, dementia and many other diseases. In 1915, the immunomodulating effect of echinacea in the treatment of tuberculosis, smallpox, and viral diseases was officially confirmed for the first time.

The drug is rich in miracles

Echinacea preparations are now more popular all over the world than ever. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), echinacea preparations are in first place in the USA and European countries, pushing aside such famous medicines as ginseng and Tibetan mumiyo. This culture is included in the pharmacopoeias of these countries and Japan. More than 400 drugs are produced in Europe based on this miraculous plant. Medicinal tea, produced in bags, is extremely popular, the production of healing mineral water with echinacea, as well as candies for strengthening the health and good growth of children, has been established.

According to experts, the plant is the most promising for cultivation, and its production will increase significantly from year to year. Echinacea plantings in the United States are estimated at thousands of hectares both on farmers' farms and on the plots of ordinary citizens who have found the correct and effective way to heal in order to avoid extremely expensive treatment of complex and chronic diseases.

The methods of therapeutic use of echinacea in our country are wide and multifaceted - to cure many diseases, crushed parts of the plant are mixed with honey, they prepare healing oil, rub the tumors and inflammations with leaves, treat ulcers, wounds and abscesses with juice, prepare decoctions, and alcohol tinctures in the form of wet compresses are used for inflammations and for healing wounds; medicinal salads, pomace and extracts are prepared from the leaves. In folk medicine, Echinacea is used in the form of an aqueous infusion, decoction, alcoholic tincture, ointment, creams, healing oil; this plant is acceptable for all types of preparation, does not give side effects and has no contraindications.

The medicinal composition is better than a thousand herbs

So what is the secret of such a great healing power of this plant? According to the latest scientific data, the roots, seeds and flowers of the aboveground part of the plant contain the most unique natural substances and components that form an extremely harmonious combination and mutually reinforce each other's therapeutic effect. Echinacea contains healing essential oils, useful resins, essential organic acids for health, vitamins and the most unique natural antioxidants echinocin and echinolone. This wonderful plant is extremely rich in nutrients, iron, necessary for the formation of red blood cells and improving blood composition; calcium, indispensable for strong bones and teeth, which is very important in old age; selenium, which gives the ability to resist any disease, as well as silicon,necessary for the formation of healthy tissue after surgery.

The composition of the medicinal vital vitamins and microelements contained in echinacea is extremely rich - these are vitamins A, C and E, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium, the rarest natural healing substance sesquiterpene. All these elements increase immunity, improve metabolism, have antiallergic, antimicrobial, diuretic, antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties.

Improving immunity - no better for health

Unlike synthetic biostimulants, tablets and mixtures, this plant does not heal the consequences of the disease, but its root causes, and does not have side effects. Echinacea tremendously enhances immunity in the following way: it actively cleanses the entire lymphatic system, blood, liver, kidneys, prevents destruction and helps restore healthy cells, fights against bacteria, viruses, fungi and pathogenic microbes, activates and mobilizes all the body's defenses to fight disease … At the same time, it perfectly stimulates the growth of healthy cells, the production of antibodies; is an irreplaceable remedy for mental and physical exhaustion, for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases, against which any medicine is powerless; for the treatment of respiratory and viral diseases, as well as for chronic diseases hepatitis, rheumatism, arthritis, arthrosis,nephritis, cystitis, prostatitis, eczema, psoriasis, burns, frostbite, non-healing ulcers and diabetes.

Echinacea helps to increase sexual potency at any age. Quickly cures male and female infertility, obesity, reduces and completely eliminates cravings for alcohol and tobacco smoking.

Procurement medicines require skill

For medicinal use in May-June, leaves, flowers and stems are harvested, which are consumed fresh, and also dried in the shade. And in September-October, extraordinarily healing roots are dug up, when the content of medicinal substances reaches the highest level in them. Echinacea should be harvested during the growing season, dried in the shade, crushed and drunk as a tea in the fall, winter and early spring. And in the summer, you can use the green mass and flowers, preparing delicious and healing salads from them.

Echinacea is always on duty - keeps health and beauty

Inside, most often they take a 10% alcohol tincture from perennial roots and all other parts of plants, while a stomach ulcer is very well cured, and stones from the kidneys are dissolved and removed. With bronchial asthma and pneumonia, cough rubbing the back, especially under the shoulder blades, seven days in a row with alcohol tincture. In addition, a lot of herbal preparations are produced, which necessarily include echinacea: they are brewed in a thermos like tea and are used for obesity and alcoholism, bronchitis, dysbiosis, heart disease, arthritis and arthrosis, in case of hair loss, to remove toxins and cleanse everything organism.

The plant is widely used in cosmetology. Fresh juice of echinacea leaves and flowers is applied to the face at night for age spots, freckles, warts, acne, lichen, purulent formations and wrinkles.

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Healing tea - forget about all diseases

For its preparation, take 3 fresh flowers or 2 teaspoons of chopped root or leaves, brew with 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave for 40 minutes. Tea is always drunk 1 cup a day for prevention and recovery, and 3 cups at the beginning of any disease to boost immunity and recover faster. This tea is considered a very effective natural medicine, slows down the aging process, perfectly cleanses and rejuvenates the entire body. Tea is drunk for colds, flu, boils, inflammations, ulcers, eczema; for the fastest recovery of health after a long illness, surgery or a course of antibiotics.

Echinacea is usually taken for a maximum of a month, then they take a break for a month. Taking breaks allows your immunity to work at full strength.

Broth - health, youth gift

One teaspoon of fresh or dry leaves is taken, crushed, brewed in a glass of water in a water bath, infused and drunk by a third of a teacup three times a day before meals. Heals stomach ulcers, headaches and joint pains, edema, normalizes blood pressure, improves general condition, normalizes sleep, and improves vision. Improves appetite and mood. An irreplaceable remedy for colds and flu.

Alcohol tincture - medicine in the mouth

Experienced herbalists recommend pouring finely chopped fresh or dry leaves with alcohol or vodka in a ratio of 1:10, insist for 10 days. Take an infusion of 25-30 drops 3 times a day before meals. Heals prostate adenoma, inflammation of the genitourinary system, female inflammation, constipation, vasospasm, stomach ulcers, gastritis, normalizes and improves all metabolic processes in the body.

Infusion - poured with wonderful power

It is prepared as follows: 30 g of fresh or dried flowers of echinacea are poured with 0.5 liters of boiling water and boiled for 10 minutes in a sealed container, after which it is insisted in a warm place for 5 hours, filtered. During this time, all vitamins, mineral salts and biologically active substances contained in flowers pass into the infusion. You can add sugar, honey, berry juice or syrup to the infusion, and drink it in half a glass 3 times a day. A thermos is very convenient for cooking, which you can take with you. The infusion increases efficiency, relieves fatigue, increases immunity and resistance to various colds, which is especially important in winter and early spring.

Healing salad - a treasure of vitamin power

Fill the finely chopped leaves with vegetable oil, add dill, parsley, finely chopped vegetables. It cures anemia, vitamin deficiency, improves blood composition, relieves headaches, improves tone.

Echinacea plus honey - anyone will come to life

All parts of the plant crushed into flour are mixed with honey in a 1: 3 ratio and consumed with tea 2-3 times a day. The drug is especially effective for severe headache, chronic fatigue, vitamin deficiency, high blood pressure; normalizes sleep, perfectly soothes the nervous system, with regular use cures epilepsy, increased excitability, improves vision, memory.

In addition, echinacea is a wonderful honey plant in itself, blooming for four months, attracting many bees and giving in abundance a wonderful, healing honey that can be stored without losing its wonderful properties for years. In addition, it is a wonderful decorative decoration for your garden, attracting many beneficial insects, reliable protection against many diseases and pests of home gardens.

Echinacea is very hardy, unpretentious, grows well and bears fruit abundantly on any type of soil, multiplies well both by dividing the bush and by seeds, which are planted in late autumn or early spring. Echinacea care is simple and boils down to regular watering and keeping the soil loose and weed-free.

The miraculous plant Echinacea purpurea is a natural healing guardian of your health. By sowing and growing this beautiful plant, you will receive medicinal material that will save you from many diseases or, by strengthening your immune system, will help prevent diseases and improve the health of you and your family. Using echinacea, you will gain active longevity, vigor, strength, joy of life.

You can get varietal seeds of this plant by writing to the address: 460048, Orenburg - 48, PO Box 497. One clean and one signed envelope and stamps for 2 rubles must be enclosed in the letter.