extract from …a short version of Echinacea the Plant by H W Felter MD issued by Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists Inc Cincinnati, Ohio. … ‘Echinacea is a remedy for auto-infection, where the blood stream becomes slowly infected either from within or without the body. Elimination is imperfect, the body tissues become altered, and there is developed within the fluids and tissues septic action with adynamia, resulting in boils, carbuncles, cellular tissue inflammation, abscesses, and other septicemic processes. It is, therefore a drug indicated by the changes manifested in a disturbed balance of the fluids of the body, resulting in tissue alteration – be the cause infectious by organisms, or devitalised accumulations, or alterations in the blood itself. Echinacea is justly valued in catarrhal conditions of the nasal and bronchial tracts in which there is a run-down condition of the system with a fetid discharge and often associated with cutaneous eruptions, especially of an eczematous and strumous type. Catarrhal bronchitis and fetid bronchitis are disorders in which it has been used with benefit, and it is said to ameliorate some of the unpleasant catarrhal complications.
Used externally for: eruptions; insect bites and stings and to relieve itching in urticarea:
