Echinacea Extract 400mg
Pure and Potent Ingredients
Helps Body Stay Healthy and Active
Immune System Booster
Echinacea Powder Pills - Improving Skin Hydration - Lustrous Hair
1 Bottle - 100 Capsules
What's this?
Echinacea is one of the most popular herbs in America today. This Native American medicinal plant called echinacea is named for the prickly scales in its large conical seed head, which resembles the spines of an angry hedgehog - echinos is Greek for hedgehog.
Health Benefits of Echinacea
Echinacea increases the non-specific activity of the immune system. In other words, echinacea stimulates the overall activity of the cells responsible for fighting all kinds of infection. Echinacea makes our own immune cells more efficient in attacking bacteria, viruses and abnormal cells. The benefits of Echinacea have been known about by the American Indian people since before the arrival of Columbus. This was a common herbal remedy, due to its properties as well as antiviral, antifungal. Prior to the now common use of antibiotics, a bottle of Echinacea tincture was found in most homes.
Now that herbal medicine is popular again, this herb in particular has become very well known for its strong effect for boosting your immune system.
Commonly called the coneflower, or purple coneflower Echinacea is a member of the daisy family of plants, and is a native of North America. There are 9 different varieties in this family with three varieties being very effective to boost immune system function.
Echinacea contains many beneficial constituents for protection of our body:
Echinacea and Skin:
Echinacea purpurea will work for your skin wellness. It has an analgesic effect on irritated skin. It reduces the inflammation and redness of the skin, thereby alleviating the discomfort.
Echinacea For Lustrous Hair:
Echinacea will fight against bacteria that may result into dandruff and infections of the scalp. This hair-mask has a calming effect on your nerves and smells great too.
Echinacea Fights Dandruff:
Echinacea is known to be one of the best herbal anti-dandruff remedies. Its anti-microbial properties eliminate dandruff altogether when used over a period of time. Dandruff also causes itchy scalp and results into development of tiny bumps in the scalp due to scratching, which further worsens the irritation.
Boosts Your Immune System:
Researchers have found that the highly active polysaccharides in Echinacea boost the synthesis of T-cells. The T-cells are responsible for fighting infections and protecting the body from attack of viruses and bacteria. Echinacea also increases the viability of white blood cells, keeping your immune system in top-notch condition.
Relieves Upper Respiratory Issues:
Because of its immune-boosting and anti-inflammatory effects, echinacea can be used to relieve the following upper respiratory symptoms:
How Echinacea Stimulates the Immune System:
As I mentioned above, echinacea provides complex sugars that stimulate the immune system into getting ready to fight infection without stimulating the immune system to cause inflammation. I spent three days discussing this topic one-on-one with a natural products researcher named Shannon Mar at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School some years ago.
The immune system creates "dendritic cells" to act as a kind of patrol cop throughout vulnerable tissues. A dendritic cell is a cell with long projections that look a little like an octopus or a squid that probe tissues looking for germs. The faster it moves the more infections it will locate.
The dendritic cells do not kill bacteria or viruses themselves but they send signals to CD4 cells to take care of the invaders. The sooner the dendritic cell locates the infection, the less inflammation the immune system has to use to destroy it. The less inflammation produced by the immune system, the fewer symptoms the infection causes.
Dendritic cells have a very short lifespan. They are made in bone marrow, mature in the bloodstream, and die in the lymph glands in just a few days. That's why you can't take echinacea this week and expect it to protect you from infection next week. That's also why there are dozens of studies of echinacea, one proving that echinacea fights colds and flu and one proving that it doesn't. How well echinacea works for you are all about how often you take it and whether you were taking it before you were exposed to the virus.
Ingredients
Serving Size: 1 Capsule
Servings Per Container: 100
Echinacea Powder - 400mg
Other Ingredients: Gelatin (capsules), (May contain one or more of the following; rice powder, vegetable stearine, magnesium stearate and silica).
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
CAUTION: Do not exceed recommended dose. Pregnant or nursing mothers, children under the age of 18, and individuals with a known medical condition should consult a physician before using this or any dietary supplement.
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