Echinacea purpurea herb, packet, 50g

Product description

dietary supplements. It is not a medicinal product

Composition

Echinacea Purpurea Herb 100%

Pharmacological Action

Echinacea purpurea herb is a plant-based remedy. Echinacea purpurea herb contains water-soluble immunostimulating polysaccharides (4-O-methylglucuronylabinoxylans, acidic arabinoamno-galactans); essential oils (components include germacrene alcohol, borneol, bornyl acetate, pentadeca-8-en-2-one, germacrene D, caryophylline, caryophylline epoxide); flavonoids (ferulic acid derivatives, including cyanide,2-O-caffeoyl-3-O-feruloyl-tartaric acid,2,3-O-diferuloyl tartaric acid,2-O-caffeoyl tartaric acid); alkamides; polyenes.

It has immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory effects. Polysaccharides increase the phagocytic activity of neutrophils and macrophages, stimulate the production of interleukin-1. The complex of active substances induces the transformation of B-lymphocytes into plasma cells, improves the functions of T-helper cells. Thanks to inulin, levulose, betaine improves metabolic processes, especially in the liver and kidneys.

Indications

• Increase of non-specific body defense factors in uncomplicated acute infectious diseases and predisposition to frequent colds;
• in order to stimulate immunity in patients with uncomplicated acute infectious diseases (as an auxiliary treatment);
• prevention of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza;
• as an auxiliary drug for long-term antibiotic therapy of chronic infectious diseases.

Contraindications

• hypersensitivity to echinacea and plants of the asteraceae family,
• tuberculosis,
• leukemias,
• autoimmune diseases (including collagenoses),
• advanced atherosclerosis,
• multiple sclerosis,
• AIDS,
• HIV infection,
• children under 4 years of age.

Side effects

Possible: allergic reactions; when used in high doses-nausea, vomiting, stool disorders, insomnia, increased excitability of the nervous system.

How to take, course of use and dosage

One tablespoon of raw materials is poured with a glass of hot boiled water and heated in a water bath for 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Cool, squeeze, the volume of the resulting infusion is brought to 200 ml with boiled water. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

Special instructions

Patients with recurrent infectious diseases of the respiratory tract require regular medical monitoring.

Other immunostimulating drugs should not be prescribed during the use of echinacea.

Storage conditions

Store in a dry, inaccessible place for children at a temperature not exceeding 25° C. The finished infusion should be stored in a cool place for no more than 2 days

Active ingredient

Echinacea purpurea herb

Conditions of release from pharmacies

Without a prescription

Dosage form

vegetable raw materials

Description

Children over 4 years old, For adults

Indications

Flu and Cold Prevention, Colds, Infectious Diseases