PURPLE CONEFLOWER, ECHINACEA

Latin: Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea purpurea Moench

Cucumber family. A perennial herb with a height of 60-100 cm and a short root. The

stems are red, simple or branched. Lower leaves in the form of a rosette, oblong-

ovate, hard, rough. Stem leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, with a sharp tip. The

flower baskets are single-layered, with a three-dimensional covering of lanceolate

leaves. Marginal flowers in the basket purple or dirty crimson, barren, tongue-

shaped; middle flowers - crimson red with 5 teeth on top. The fruit is a dark gray-

brown seed.

Blooms in July - August. Native to North America. Flower baskets are prepared in

July - August; rhizomes with roots - late autumn. Contains essential oil (in flower

baskets 0.13-0.48%). The roots contain glycoside, echinacoside, betaine, tar,

organic acids, phytosterol.

Endowed with analgesic and antiseptic action, it increases the activity of phagocytes

and significantly accelerates healing processes. Infusion: 2 g.kr. leave a basket of

echinacea flowers on 250 ml of cold boiled water for 8 hours. Used externally for

furunculosis, carbuncles, purulent wounds, ulcers and especially for burns.

Echinacea juice is applied to poultices on purulent wounds and is also used in the

cosmetic industry to make creams.

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