Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea):A North American species of flowering plant commonly found in the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. It is primarily found in tall grass prairies as well as open wooded regions and blooms without end through summer and fall.
Echinacea is widely used to fight infections including yeast infections.
A chemical property, borneol, is found in the stem and used as an anti-bacterial component commonly found in Chinese medicine where the plant is dried into a powder and infused into the patient's skin.
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Naturalmedicinefacts. (2015). Echinacea purpurea - Natural medicine facts. Retrieved September 5, 2015, from http://www.naturalmedicinefacts.info/plant/echinacea-purpurea.html
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