Echinacea Maceration

Common Name: Purple Coneflower, Echinacea, Black Sampson, Hedgehog

Scientific Name: Echinacea purpurea, E. augustifolia

Part of Plant Used: Fresh and dried flowers

Constituents: Fractionated Coconut Oil, Essential Oils, Glycosides

General Information: Echinacea root has longed been used in herbal medicine. This maceration captures the scent of the echinacea bloom that is quite lovely. The herbal information for the root does not apply here. Howard Garrett says that the flower is antibiotic, fights infections, and good for the lymph and immune system. There is a white variety, but this maceration does not include it. There is a beauty and majesty associated with the bloom. It dries well.

Physical Properties: Antibacterial, alternative, tonic, and relieve headaches

Emotional and Spiritual Properties: You can be feeling weak and not up to the tasks before you. Echinacea can strengthen and allow you to feel very capable. It will help you endure. The saying, "I am strong to last long," applies here. Can indicate that life has taken a toll on you. You are unable to find yourself and put yourself back together because of great stress or trauma. Echinacea will help you find the calm place within and allow you to pull yourself together so that you feel whole and able to deal with all that life presents you. Echinacea has a very hard spiny flower with a lovely scent. It helps you energetically create your own spiny shell to deflect the things that can undermine you so you can retain your sweet disposition.

Applications: Good for wound healing ointments, respiratory rubs, cough preparations, protective and strengthening blends for illness. Good for general massages to relieve stress and bath therapy.