Several laboratory and animal studies suggest that echinacea contains active substances that enhance the activity of the immune system, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and have hormonal, antiviral, and antioxidant effects. For this reason, professional herbalists may recommend echinacea to treat urinary tract infections, vaginal yeast (candida) infections, ear infections (also known as otitis media), athlete's foot, sinusitis, hay fever (also called allergic rhinitis), as well as slow-healing wounds. One study even suggests that echinacea extract exerted an antiviral action on the development of recurrent HSVI when supplied prior to infection. [source: umm.edu]

Botanical Name: Echinacea purpurea

Traditional Use: Supports Healthy Function of the Immune System*

Plant Part Extracted: Fresh root & Sweet Orange essential oil

Other Ingredients: vegetable glycerine, distilled water, Echinacea extractives & steam distilled (no-solvents) Orange oil.
CONTAINS NO ALCOHOL

Description: We prepare our Echinacea extract from fresh (undried) roots of Echinacea purpurea, which is Certified Organically Grown on our own farm, and sweet orange essential oil which is extracted without solvents. They are never fumigated or irradiated.

Caution: Keep Out of the Reach of Children

More About Herb Pharm
Herbal medicines are only as effective as the quality of the herbs from which they are made. When Ed Smith and Sara Katz founded Herb Pharm in 1979 they understood as herbalists this basic principle and have never compromised in their efforts to provide the highest quality, most effective whole-herb healthcare products possible. They know that producing effective herbal extracts that enable people to affect positive changes in the quality of their health is based on diligent study and understanding of traditional herbal medicine, as well as modern herbal sciences. At Herb Pharm they grow most of the herbs on the “Pharm Farm” – their certified organic farm located in a rural valley of the Siskiyou Mountains in southern Oregon. As organic farmers, they never use synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, nor do they use genetically modified seeds. Instead, employing fundamental, time-honored sustainable agriculture techniques including crop rotation, cover cropping, natural weed control such as hand weeding and flame weeding, and composting to condition the soil. Each year, our farm is inspected and certified as organic by Oregon Tilth.

* This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.