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| Echinacea in the Herbalist's Medicine Chest |
| Echinacea is one of the most effective and safest herbs to stock in your family's home medicine cabinet. Either by itself or in combination with other herbs, it is invaluable to use for a wide variety of acute illnesses. Following are some favorite formulas of herbalists and some interesting uses. |
| Brigitte Mars: ''I have a lot of wonderful experiences with echinacea, many with our own family, including using it successfully for both snake bite and the bites of brown recluse spiders. I use it by itself and in combination with usnea for infections of the throat, with osha for respiratory infections and sometimes use it with grapefruit seed extract for infections in general. I stopped using goldenseal many years ago because of its scarcity, but prior to that I used the combination a lot. My Inimuni-Tea blend is my favorite tea combination. It is a wonderful-tasting beverage that contains rosehips, lemon grass, peppermint, ginger, echinacea root, leaf and flower, elder flower, marshmallow root, licorice, astragalus and thyme. It offers a wonderful boost to the immune system. Even kids and skeptical spouses will drink it up. |
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