How to use Echinacea

How to use Echinacea
 Echinacea - is a perennial herb of the family Asteraceae. It is cultivated as an ornamental and medicinal plant. In medical practice used decoctions, tinctures and extracts of Echinacea.
 Roots and stems contain echinacea oil, phytosterol, polysaccharides ehinatsin, echinacoside, palmitic, linoleic, tsirotinovuyu acid. In the flowers found essential oil.

The main pharmacological action of Echinacea - immunostimulant. It increases leykopoez activates granulocytes and lymphocytes. Echinacea preparations - a herbal stimulant of the immune system, have anti-allergic, adaptogenic, bacteriostatic, fungicidal and antiviral properties. Stimulating effect on the immune system is evident even in children and the elderly.

Echinacea is used in diseases caused by the weakening of immunity, ionizing radiation, chemotherapy drugs, ultraviolet rays or prolonged antibiotic treatment. This remarkable plant also has anti-bacterial properties and protivomikoticheskimi. Echinacea extract inhibits the growth and multiplication of staphylococcus, streptococcus, E. coli, the herpes virus.

Echinacea is effective for rheumatism, arthritis, prostate, gynecological diseases, diseases of the upper respiratory tract, trophic ulcers, osteomyelitis.

Received in different plant species. 2 teaspoons of raw pour 0, 5 liters of boiling water and leave for 30 minutes. This tea drink a glass a day for disease prevention. It slows down aging and cleanses the body, helps with flu, colds, restores after serious illness, operations.

Echinacea drink a decoction of the flu, headaches, pain in the joints. It improves eyesight, stimulates appetite and leads to normal blood pressure. To make it 1 teaspoon of crushed leaves of Echinacea pour a glass of water and kept in a water bath for about 30 minutes. Then strain and drink a third cup three times a day.

Infusion Echinacea as a more concentrated beverage is particularly useful in winter. He relieves fatigue, stimulates physical activity protects against seasonal infections. 30 g of raw material is placed in a pan, pour 0, 5 liters of boiling water and close the lid. Boiled for 10 minutes and then further 5 hours insist that the concentration was the maximum of nutrients. Infusion drink three times a day, half a cup.

The most common form of Echinacea - tincture of roots at 70% alcohol. You can use the pharmaceutical product or make your own. Dry leaves pour alcohol of 1:10 and insist 10 days. Drink 15-30 drops in half an hour before meals. Tincture take to improve metabolism, gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, vascular spasm, inflammatory diseases of the female reproductive organs, prostate adenoma.

Echinacea is recommended to take month course and then do a month break. In this case, the immune system will be able to strengthen their own. In cosmetic use fresh juice of Echinacea purpurea. They smeared overnight acne, warts, freckles and dark spots.

Take drugs of this plant is not recommended for pregnant women, lactating women, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, leukemia, tuberculosis. Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to as echinacea and up to 1 year.

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