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Purple echinacea is a herb that brings health

The world famous medicinal plant is 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 the tincture will destroy it on the vine.

The most common was echinacea varieties 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 purpurea contains useful amino 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 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 a plant, people who have undergone radiation exposure are healed and are given rehabilitation after a long use of antibiotics.
Today, from the 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 only as 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 "looking like a hedgehog."

The plant can be grown independently in a flower garden. 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, however, it is necessary to water it. The annual composting will also benefit the plant. The flower is well tolerated by the cold and can hibernate without shelter, but in the snowless winters it can disappear. Regularly bloom Eninitseya 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 on the flowerbed will please the eye, from it you can independently make a healing agent by insisting the plant in alcohol.
The drug can be used as a restorative aid, as well as for the prevention and treatment of diseases associated with metabolic disorders (liver disease, diabetes mellitus), exposure to the body of various toxins in food and the environment (pesticides, heavy metals, insecticides) .

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