Purple echinacea is a herb that brings health

World famous medicinal plantis echinacea. The herb has excellent healing properties, has a therapeutic effect, increasing the human immunity, which is proved by pharmacological studies. If the disease begins, thirty drops of tincture will destroy it on the vine.

The most widely spread echinaceavarieties of purple. This herbaceous perennial plant, which belongs to the family of Compositae or Astroids, reaches a height of 120 cm. The grass is very beautiful, on its stems there are purple-violet inflorescences in the form of large baskets. The native land of the plant is the eastern part of the USA.

The herb of Echinacea purpura contains usefulamino acids and essential oils. Phytosterols, betaine, glycoside echinacoside were found in the roots. The main active substances that have an immunostimulating effect are polysaccharides.

The plant has antifungal,antiviral, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. Echinacea-grass contributes to the removal of radionuclide in the body, inhibits the reproduction and growth of streptococci, staphylococci, E. coli, viruses, herpes, influenza, stomatitis.

Echinacea preparations are used for septic and infectious diseases, abscesses and carbuncles, burns of various degrees.
With the help of the plant, people who have undergone radiation exposure are healed and are given rehabilitation after a prolonged use of antibiotics.
Today, from Echinacea, tinctures and other medications are produced that have no side effects: immunom, immunal (drops and tablets), plates and resorption tablets.

However, one should not treat Echinacea onlyas to a medicinal plant. After all, this is a beautiful flower, which dissolves in August and pleases for 1.5 ... 2 months. The flower-baskets reach a diameter of 12 centimeters, have a convex central part and rigid tongue-shaped reddish-brown or dark-red petals. After the withering and falling of the petals, the baskets turn into balls, which are covered with hard bristles. Because of this property, the plant has its name, which in Latin means "like a hedgehog."

The plant can be grown on its own ina flower bed. To echinacea-grass developed well, it should be planted in loose nutritious soil. The plant loves the sun very much. Planted seeds give long shoots from 10 days to a month, although they do not need stratification. Since the seedlings need moisture and heat, it is better to plant them in a greenhouse, and the seedlings that have already appeared should be transferred to the flower garden. The first year of development gives a rosette of leaves with a diameter of up to 25 centimeters.

Echinacea - the grass is resistant to drought, the lessless, it is necessary to water it. The annual composting will also benefit the plant. The flower well tolerates cold and can winter without shelter, but in snowless winters it can disappear. Regularly blossom eninacea begins with the second year of life.

Reproduction of grass is produced not only by seeds,but also by cuttings. The bushes are transplanted, unlike other perennials, which are divided in August, only in the spring, until the leaves are fully turned.
In addition, that Echinacea grass, planted in the flowerbed will please the eye, from it you can independently make a healing agent by insisting the plant in alcohol.
The medicine can be used as aand also for the prevention and treatment of diseases associated with metabolic disorders (liver disease, diabetes mellitus), exposure to the body of various toxins contained in food and the environment (pesticides, heavy metals, insecticides).