Echinacea: traditional cold & flu remedy
InWestern herbal medicine, echinacea has a long history of traditional use for helping to relieve symptoms of common colds and flu, and for supporting the immune system in fighting illness. ¹4 It appears to exert its influence on the innate immune system, which is the aspect of immune function that attempts to fend of any infectious organisms it encounters (as opposed to the acquired immune system, which goes into battle against organisms that it's already come across in the past). ² , ¹4 For example, echinacea stimulates phagocytosis, the process by which immune cells engulf and ‘gobble up’ infectious organisms. ² (Think of it as a game of Pac-Man that happens in your blood stream, helping to keep you healthy!)
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