What is "Echinacea"?

What is "Echinacea"?

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Echinacea, on its own, is generally speaking not as useful as when it's combined with goldenseal. The best combination that I know of for someone who's got a cold feeling like it's coming on or maybe they've got the beginning bug of the flu or they're in a community where everybody's got the flu or the cold and they don't want to get it; it's a good idea to take echinacea and goldenseal. They balance each other and improve the results of each one synergistically. So it's a very good compound for people that are preventing, trying to prevent the onset of some sort of illness, or if they get it right at the beginning. If you are full-blown with a cold or the flu, you're probably not going to experience any benefit from it. And again, echinacea and goldenseal is a product that you don't want to be taking all the time in order to get the maximum benefit. It's a medicine. You take it as needed.