An internationally popular immunomodulator —Echinacea

Echinacea is a popular medicinal herb in the United States and one of the best-selling health foods. It contains alkanamide, polysaccharide, glycoprotein and other active components, but its structure has not been fully studied. In addition, according to a recent study, polysaccharides are linked to immunity and promote interleukin-growth. Recent studies have found that echinacea has antibacterial effects, and can fight bacteria, viruses and inflammation, etc. Echinacea can help with urethral infection, pain, edema, nasal mucosa drying and allergies. In Germany, echinacea is legal medicine, in addition to the prevention of influenza and influenza, headache, sore throat, rhinitis, bronchitis and ease cough and fever, prevent intestinal infection, improve immune function is low and other pharmacological effects are also valued.
Echinacea is a north American composite plant used by native americans to treat toothaches, sore throats, colds and infections. By the end of the 19th century, Europe also began to be popular cultivation, and then with Germany as the center, the active study of echinacea effect, has continued to today. Echinacea in Europe has been very common medicine, the main functions are: enhance the immune ability, against bacteria or virus, can treat athlete’s foot, lyme disease, yeast infection, larynx, etc.; Can effectively combat the common cold, chronic infection of the upper respiratory tract, chronic infection of the lower urinary tract; To heal a wound; Treating chronic ulcers, especially in the early stages of a cold, is more effective.
It is a popular medicinal herb in the United States and one of the best-selling health foods. It contains alkanamide, polysaccharide, glycoprotein and other active components, but its structure has not been fully studied. In addition, according to a recent study, polysaccharides are linked to immunity and promote interleukin-growth.
Recent studies have found that echinacea has antibacterial effects, can resist bacteria, antiviral and anti-inflammatory, etc. Echinacea is known to help urethral infection, pain, edema, nasal mucosa drying and allergies. In Germany, echinacea is legal medicine, in addition to preventing colds and epidemics.
Besides sex cold, to have a headache, sore throat, rhinitis, bronchitis and alleviate cough and have a fever, prevent enteral infection, improve immunity function to wait for a variety of pharmacological effect to also get attention.
Simply put, echinacea’s main physiological function is to boost immunity. You may see the word “immunity” on the description of many healthy food, but most of the healthy food, such as ginseng, wheat seedling, antioxidant implants, etc., are relatively indirect in improving immunity. The so-called indirect meaning is to point to first strengthen the constitution, then the immunity nature is relatively improved.
Echinacea, however, turn the immunity of hoist is more direct, fast, echinacea can immediately after taking rapid stimulate the immune system function, make the body’s ability to fight pathogens in the shortest possible time to be promoted, sounds a bit like a miracle drug, because have such features, so that echinacea is not like a normal healthy food, suitable for long-term low doses of the uninterrupted, it was like, said countries with no enemies of peace, do not need to paint the standings arms build-up.
Echinacea extract is used when the body is faced with the need for a strong immune system. When is it most needed?
The most common is a cold, throat inflammation, because the cold is a viral infection, basically there is no medicine, the body’s immune system is the only defense line can play to kill the cold virus, so this is the best time to take echinacea; In addition, echinacea extract also applicable in any microbial infections, such as vaginal candida infection, oral herpes virus infection, bacterial pneumonia, ocular chlamydia infection, etc.) on the adjuvant treatment of, even if the patient has been in the use of antibiotics kill microbial agents, such as taking echinacea extract is shorten course and speed up recovery.
In addition, the abuse of antibiotics, because of modern medicine caused a lot of drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria are increasingly strong, and even many infectious disease no medicine can cure, by this time can only adopt the so-called supportive therapy, using the patient’s own immune system to fight, echinacea extract in such cases, it may be more or less have some auxiliary function.