The Echinacea plant is native to the areas west of Ohio, in America. It belongs to the Aster (Asteraceae) family. Echinacea can grow as high as 2-3 feet. The leaves are “thick, rough, hairy, and broadly landscaped, 3-8 in. long (Hutchans, 113)…” The flowered head appears from July to October. The color of the flower ranges from white to a pale purple.
The Lakota used the Echinacea plant (freshly scraped root) for hydrophobia, and snakebites. The Cheyenne used boiled leaves and stems making a yellow colored liquid to draw poison out of a snake bite and to relieve the itch of poison ivy.(James Stubbendieck, et al)
For Homeopathic use, the whole fresh Echinacea plant is tinctured. It is recommended for Appendicitis, bites of rabid animals, blood poisoning, just to name a few. Echinacea’s dried root homeopathic is used at a ratio of 1:2 which means 75% of the tinctured root to 25% water. For the fresh root, it is used at a ratio of 1:5, meaning 50% tincture and 50% water[i].
I was taught that the volatile properties of the tinctures were reduced by continuous dilutions and succession (vigorous shaking). The author of the above information stated you should feel a “buzzing” on the tongue.
With proper homeopathic dilution, you would take the tincture and dilute it with 99 parts of water and alcohol before each succession for 1C homeopathic solution or one part tincture to 10 parts water or alcohol for a 1X solution.
Typically you would see the remedies labeled 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M (1,000C) or higher. For home use 6C and 30C are what is usually recommended.
As with Flower Remedies, Homeopathic Remedies use the “essence” of a plant, mineral, etc. That “essence” is as Robin Hayfield states, “entering the realms of pure energy (15)”. It is actually the signature of the plant, or other organism. It acts upon the vital force of the body.
References:
Hayfield, Robin. The Family Homeopath: safe, natural, effective health care for you and your children.
Healing Arts Press, 1994
Healing Arts Press, 1994
Hutchens, Alma R. Indian Herbalogy of North America. Shambhala, 1991
James Stubbendieck, Stephen L. Hatch, and Charles H Butterfield. North American Range Plants, 4th Ed.
University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
Weyers, Elisheva. http://elisheva-weyers.suite101.com/echinacea-a-natural-immune-stimulant-a236105
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