Echinacea
Formula: Echinacea angustifolia dried root, Echinacea purpurea dried root.
Therapeutic action: Echinacea is one of the strongest immune stimulators and enhancers known. It can double and triple the amount of Tcells and Macrophages in your bloodstream in a few days. It can also increase the amount of Interferon, Interleukin, Immunoglobin and other important natural immune chemicals present in your blood. This is how Echinacea works, by boosting the number of immune cells and the amount of natural immune chemicals, then stimulating them into more activity. The benefit of immune stimulation is a shorter duration of existing colds and flu and/or prevention of future infections. It also initiates and speeds up recovery from chronic and long-term immune-related depression illnesses, diseases and degeneration.
Dosages: General: For general protection and immune stimulation, especially when you are not ill. This could even be when you're feeling fine, but many around you are ill. The best dosage for this scenario is two dropperfuls, three times daily, until you use up two fluid ounces. This dosage will take about twelve days. Do this once a month and you should never get sick.
Feeling out of sorts: If you are feeling a bit off, but it's nothing you can really put your finger on, this may mean that you are about to get sick. It also may mean that your body is fighting something off but, in either case, it's a good time to give it some help. In this scenario, I suggest taking two dropperfuls, six times daily until you consume two fluid ounces. This will take approximately 6 days.
You know you are sick: This is when you are actually have some observable clinical symptoms. Sore throat, fever, nasal or lung congestion, toxic bite or sting, wound or trauma. Anytime there is anything wrong with you, your immune system must go to work. In this case, I suggest an initial blast of 1 dropperful every waking hour, or about 16 dropperfuls in a day, until you consume a total of two fluid ounces. This will take approximately four days.
You are REALLY sick: This is when you are suddenly sweating, have the chills, a cold, food poisoning, cancer, whatever, but you are really ill. There is no time to waste fooling around and immediate aggressive herbal treatment can save you days of agony. In this case, I suggest drinking an entire fluid ounce of Echinacea tincture immediately. For those who might have a hard time doing this, it can be diluted in juice or drunk 1/2 an ounce an hour, and the other 1/2 an ounce the next. Remember that this is 1 ounce of alcohol, so keep that in mind and don't drive. Then consume an additional two dropperfuls every waking hour until you finish two fluid ounces. I suggest to continue taking Echinacea tincture at this rate and consume an additional two fluid ounces totaling four fluid ounces. This will take two to four days.
-REMEMBER, all of the above suggested dosages can be doubled, meaning you can consume more that two fluid ounces. Many people have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled these above suggestions without any type of Echinacea Poisoning or Immune System Burnout. Beneficial to use with cayenne tonic, as this enhances the effects.