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| EchinaceaDiscuse to Rebirth |
| The widespread use of echinacea continued until the 1940s. The only official recognition given it by the predominant medical establishment was its inclusion in the National Formulary of the United States from 1916 to 1950. However, with the decline of Eclecticism and subsequent diminished interest in herbal medicine, interest in echinacea similarly declined. It was not until the 1970s that herbalism and echinacea made their return on the coattails of the "back to nature" movement of the 1960s and the work of a number of herbalists, in particular, Michael Tierra and Herbal Ed Smith, two of this country's most well-respected herbalists. |
| My Introduction to Echinacea |
| I was first introduced to echinacea in 1981 by an elderly nurse named Leah Lischner Conners. At the time, Leah was 82 years old and owned a health food store in Clearlake, California, the biggest community of senior citizens in the state. She had been a nurse most of her adult life, and was brought into the world in 1899 by a homeopathic physician named Dr. Imodene Wilcox. Her older brother was already a physician practicing homeopathic medicine in New York. Leah was never supposed to have been born as her mother had pernicious anemia and was told to not have any more children. Leah was extremely emaciated and frail as a child, but was nursed to health by Dr. Wilcox and her brother, Dr. Hyman Lischner, by using cod liver oil, alfalfa and echinacea. She was |
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