What is Echinacea Purpurea?Good function and application of Polyphenols and Chicoric acid from Echinacea Purpurea Extract?

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More Application,health benefits and uses of Echinacea Purpurea:Super antibiotics.

Echinacea Extract ECHINACEA PURPUREA ROOT EXTRACT;ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT Echinacea angustifolia,Coneflower extract 289-808-4 90028-20-9 photo picture image Primary uses of of Echinacea Purpurea:
 Colds, coughs and flu and other upper respiratory conditions
 Enlarged lymph glands, sore throat
 Urinary tract infections
 Other minor infections
 May help combat herpes and candida
 Wounds, skin regeneration and skin infections (external use)
 Psoriasis, eczema and inflammatory skin conditions (external use)
 Key Actions:antibiotic,anti-allergenic,bactericidal,collagen protectant,cytokine stimulant against tumor cells and microorganisms,immune stimulant,lymphatic tonic,wound healer
 Echinacea Purpurea Root proved as super antibiotics:
 Research Findings,Over 500 scientific studies have documented the chemistry, pharmacology, and clinical applications of echinacea. The most consistently proven effect of echinacea is in stimulating phagocytosis, that is encouraging white blood cells and lymphocytes to attack invading organisms. Specific property as following:

 1.increases the number and activity of immune system cells, including anti-tumor cells:
 promotes T-cell activation;
 stimulates new tissue growth for wound healing;
 reduces inflammation in arthritis and inflammatory skin conditions;
 Mild antibiotic action: bacteriostatic, anti-viral, anti-fungal.
 inhibits the bacterial enzyme hyaluronidase, to help prevent bacterial access to healthy cells.

 2.Echinacea increases the "non-specific" activity of the immune system. In other words, unlike a vaccine which is active only against a specific disease, echinacea stimulates the overall activity of the cells responsible for fighting all kinds of infection. Unlike antibiotics, which are directly lethal to bacteria, echinacea makes our own immune cells more efficient in attacking bacteria, viruses and abnormal cells, including cancer cells.

 3.Echinacea facilitates wound healing, lessens symptoms of and speeds recovery from viruses. Anti-inflammatory effects make it useful externally against inflammatory skin conditions including psoriasis and eczema. It may also increase resistance to candida, bronchitis, herpes, and other infectious conditions.

 4.Echinacea relieves symptoms of chronic fatigue and reduces opportunistic infections in HIV individuals.

 5.Internally, Echinacea is also used for pain associated with headaches, stomach aches, measles, coughs, and gonnorrhea.

 6.Externally, Echinacea is used as a treatment for poorly healing wounds and such inflammatory conditions as leg ulcers and abscesses. Echinacea speeds tissue repair and heals connective tissue. Torn ligaments also respond well to the plant and is often used in healing salves. In combination with St. John's Wort in a salve, scarring from surgery and other wounds is markedly reduced.

 7.Echinacea also appears to seek out and destroy mutant precancerous cells.

 8.Note and More: Coneflower, or Goldenglow (Rudbeckia laciniata) is not to be confused with the purple coneflower, also known as echinacea. Coneflower is a perennial herb that grows to about seven feet high with yellow flowers. The Chippewa used it in a tea as a soothing remedy for digestive upsets. When applied topically in a poultice, coneflower was effective in treating burns.
 Chicoric acid,dicaffeoyltartaric acid.CAS.NO:70831-56-0 photo picture image

 Therapeutic Applications:
 In Germany, Echinacea root products must state on the label that they are used to help the body resist common cold infections affecting the throat, nasal passages, and head. When required, these uses do not exclude concomitant use of chemotherapeutic drugs or antibiotics, which may be necessary (Bradley, 1992). The German government Commission E on herbal medicines lists indications for the fresh-pressed juice of Echinacea purpurea (aerial parts) in supportive therapy to treat colds, chronic infections of the respiratory tract, and of the lower urinary tract (Blumenthal, 1998). It is interesting to note that at least 14 early studies of Echinacea in Germany reported benefits in urogenital diseases, two of which concerned prostatitis (Hobbs, 1989). The Commission E also lists E. pallida root tinctures as a supportive therapy in the treatment of common cold-like infections (Bauer, 1998).
 In the British Herbal Compendium (1992), a companion to the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia Vol. 1, Echinacea is indicated in the treatment of chronic bacterial and viral infections, skin complaints, furunculosis, and mild septicemia. Other included uses are the prophylaxis of influenza and colds (Bradley, 1992).

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