Dried Echinacea – 50g

Dried Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) cut leaves and stems, sold in 50g packets. Echinacea Medicinal Uses are many, both in traditional and modern medicine. The flowers, leaves, stems and roots are all used for its medicinal benefits

Benefits of Dried Echinacea:

1. Colds & flu’s, sore throats, respiratory infections, cystitis and other acute infections.
2. Streptococcus and Staph.
3. It may help reduce the reproduction rate of fungal infections such as candida and vaginitis.
4. It also helps relieve allergic reactions and symptoms by working with histamine response.

Uses for Dried Echinacea

1. Decoction.
2. Infusions.
3. Tinctures.
4. Capsules.

Echinacea Tincture

• Fill a clean mason jar halfway with dried Echinacea OR else 2/3 full if using fresh plant material.
• Fill the jar to within a half-inch of the top with 40% alcohol (such as Vodka), making sure that you completely submerge all the herbal material.
• Put a lid on the jar and shake the jar. Store the jar in a cool dark place for at least a month, shaking every couple of days.
• After 1 to 3 months of infusing, use a fine-mesh strainer or cheesecloth to filter the herbal material from the alcohol.
• Store the tincture out of direct sunlight.

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