medicinal properties, application, recipes for tea, tinctures and infusions

Sure­ly many have a peren­ni­al and very beau­ti­ful plant grow­ing in the gar­den — echi­nacea. This flower is the most pop­u­lar med­i­c­i­nal plant in the world. In this arti­cle, we will tell you about the heal­ing prop­er­ties, appli­ca­tions of this mir­a­cle plant and what dis­eases are treat­ed with echi­nacea reme­dies.

From this arti­cle you will learn:

Medicinal properties

Echi­nacea affects the human immune sys­tem and strength­ens the body’s defens­es.

Echi­nacea improves immu­ni­ty, cleans­es the entire lym­phat­ic sys­tem, blood, liv­er, fights against virus­es, bac­te­ria, fun­gi. This mir­a­cle plant con­tains many heal­ing ele­ments and sub­stances, the most impor­tant of which is betaine, which pre­vents the symp­toms of heart attack and stroke.

This plant is rich in iron, cal­ci­um, sele­ni­um, sil­i­con, vit­a­mins A, C, E, trace ele­ments: mag­ne­sium, man­ganese, potas­si­um, sodi­um. It also has anti-aller­gic, anti-inflam­ma­to­ry, diuret­ic, antivi­ral and antibac­te­r­i­al actions.

As well as the ben­e­fi­cial prop­er­ties of echi­nacea, they have the abil­i­ty to heal dif­fi­cult wounds, ulcers and eczema.

Interesting Echinacea Facts

Echinacea

Med­i­c­i­nal raw mate­ri­als of the plant — flow­ers, stems, roots and leaves. Echi­nacea is used inter­nal­ly (for colds, flu, blad­der dis­ease, etc.) and for exter­nal use (in the treat­ment of hives, burns, her­pes and oth­er skin dis­eases).

For exam­ple, for the treat­ment of stom­ach ulcers, remov­ing stones from the kid­neys, it is rec­om­mend­ed to take 10% alco­hol tinc­ture from the roots oral­ly. With asth­ma, cough, pneu­mo­nia, exter­nal rub­bing with alco­hol tinc­ture in the lungs helps well.

A decoc­tion of echi­nacea improves appetite, sleep, vision, helps reduce headaches and joint pain.

For med­ical pur­pos­es, the plant is har­vest­ed from the age of 2, both flow­ers and leaves are used (roots and rhi­zomes are dug in the fall).

Echinacea Recipes

Echi­nacea is an effec­tive rem­e­dy that fights many infec­tions and oth­er dis­eases.

echinacea tea

Tea avoids colds and also helps those who suf­fer from eczema!

Pour 3 flow­ers or 2 tea­spoons of crushed root or leaves with 0.5 liters of boil­ing water and leave for 40 min­utes. Drink 1 cup for pre­ven­tion and 3 cups at the begin­ning of colds. Take a month, then take a break for a month.

Leaf alcohol tincture

This tinc­ture will help with prostate ade­no­ma, con­sti­pa­tion, stom­ach ulcers, improves metab­o­lism. Pour the leaves with alco­hol or vod­ka in a ratio of 1:10, leave for 10 days. Take 25–30 drops 3 times a day before meals.

Tincture of rhizomes with roots

Pour the crushed raw mate­ri­als with 95% alco­hol so that it only slight­ly cov­ers it. Infuse for 2 weeks, then squeeze, strain. Take 25–30 drops 3 times a day 30 min­utes before meals. Keep refrig­er­at­ed.

echinacea headache remedy

Grind the whole echi­nacea plant into a pow­der and mix it with hon­ey. For 100 grams of pow­der, you need 300 grams of hon­ey. Mix the whole mix­ture well and take with tea 3 times a day.

This rem­e­dy will relieve headaches, nor­mal­ize sleep, calm the ner­vous sys­tem and low­er blood pres­sure.

Echinacea decoction to improve memory and attention

This decoc­tion can not only increase immu­ni­ty, improve blood com­po­si­tion, but also strength­en mem­o­ry and atten­tion, relieve stress and increase effi­cien­cy.

Chop the echi­nacea. Pour 1 tea­spoon of the pow­der with 1 cup of boil­ing water, sweat in a water bath for 15–20 min­utes. Then you need the mix­ture to infuse for 30 min­utes and strain.

Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day, before meals. The course is 10 days, a break of 5 days and the course can be repeat­ed.