Echinacea purpurea, belonging to the compositae, is one of the traditional medicinal plants of a native North American tribe, usually used for colds, toothache, snake bites and other injuries. Herbs Echinacea has been used as an alternative medicine for enhancing immune system and clearing blood for many years. Echinacea extract can effectively improve common infection or contusion, colds or flu, tonsillar inflammation, upper respiratory tract, wound inflammation, toothache or oral infection, mosquito or animal, food poisoning, abscess, eczema and other recurrent diseases.
Functions:
Echinacea purpurea has been attributed with several pharmacological effects such as: influencing pro-inflammatory enzymes, stimulating proliferation and activity of polymorphonuclear cells, protecting cells against free-radical damage, activating monocytes to produce cytokines, and possibly by weakly stimulating humoral immunity. Echinacea Extract in improved protection against systemic, infectious diseases.
Applications:
1.Applied in pharmaceutical field, it is mainly used in preventing cancer, such as breast, prostate cancer and colon cancer.
2.Applied in health product field, it is mainly used in improving osteoporosis and womens menopauses symptom.
3.As an immune modulator,it is widely used in the field of cosmetics.
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