Echinacea – How it Works
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Echinacea is so commonly recommended during cold and flu season, I wanted to provide some information on how and when to safely use it. This plant is both an immune enhancer and an immune stimulant. It enhances white blood cells, which help your body fend off infections and foreign invaders. Additionally it stimulates the immune system by posing as one of these invaders. Your immune system recognizes an interloper and sends out the troops to immobilize and kill, just as it does when a bacteria or virus enters the body. Since there is a period
of several days when your immune system is preparing the troops, using echinacea can be really useful as preventive medicine.
I always take some before I travel or if I know I have been exposed to some nasty germs. This way, my system is prepared for any unwelcome guests.
Since echinacea is a stimulant to the immune system, it will exhaust the troops if taken on a regular basis. The recommended length of ingestion is no greater than 10 days. It will lessen the symptoms of the cold or flu and hasten recovery.
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