Description:
Echinacea is useful for increasing immunity and cleansing the lymphatic system
Dosage:
4-8 mls per day, 30-60 mls per week
Parts Used:
Root
Main Actions:
- Immune enhancing
- Immune modulating
- Depurative
- Lymphatic
- Anti-inflammatory
- Vulnerary
- Sialogogue
Key Indications:
“Acute infections: viral, bacterial or parasitic (all acute doses)
Chronic infections, swollen lymph glands, splenic enlargement
Infection prevention, to slow immunological aging
Upper and lower respiratory conditions including common cold, influenza, conjunctivitis, sinusitis, nasopharyngeal catarrh, infectious otitis media, pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchiectasis, acute bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pertussis.
Skin conditions including furunculosis, abscesses, ulcers, dermatitis, psoriasis, cellulitis, herpes, shingles
Gastrointestinal conditions including infection, candidiasis, peptic ulcer, dysentery, cholecystitis, infectious hepatitis
Urinary tract infections including cystitis, urethritis, kidney infection
Dental caries (to prevent), laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, mouth ulcers (all liquid preferred)
Other systematic infections including glandular fever, Ross River virus, mastitis, measles, mumps”
Major Safety Issues:
Avoid in known allergy
Use cautiously with immunosuppressive drugs