BioCare Echinacea Complex

BioCare's Echinacea Complex combines extracts of echinacea purpurea and echinacea angustifolia providing a high potency standardised extract in the preferred liquid form (within capsules) for enhanced absorption and bio-availability.

Code    b56360

Size   60 veg.caps 

sorry, this product has been discontinued.  For an alternative echinacea, see

Bioforce Echinaforce

BioCare Echinacea Complex

Additional Information

BioCare Echinacea Complex provides a standardised liquid extract encapsulated in a nitrogen flushed, vegetable capsule for improved stability.

Product Information per Daily Intake
Echinacea purpurea 55mg 45:1 extract
Echinacea angustifolia 38.5mg (providing root extract standardised at >4% echinacosides)

Ingredients:
Lecithin (providing 30% phospholipids), Capsule (Hydroxypropyl methycellulose & Water), Echinacea purpurea (juice concentrate 45:1), Beeswax, Echinacea angustifolia (root extract standardised to 4% echinacoside), Maltodextrin.

Recommended Intake
One capsule taken daily with food or as professionally directed.
 

Warnings
Do not take if pregnant, planning a pregnancy or breastfeeding
 

Echinacea

Immune stimulant

A number of immuno-stimulatory compounds have been isolated from echinacea. Echinacea elevates white blood cell count and activity, enhances antibody activity, speeds migration of white blood cells to areas of infection, boosts interferon activity and inhibits hyaluronidase (an enzyme that allows pathogenic organisms to become more invasive).

Anti-bacterial

Echinacea exerts a mild anti-bacterial effect on the body. For example, two compounds found in echinacea, echinacoside and caffeic acid, inhibit the growth of staphylococcus aureas, corynebacterium diptheria, and proteus vulgaris.

Anti-viral

The various components of echinacea appear to block viral receptor sites on cell surfaces as well as having an inhibiting effect on hyaluronidase, which increases connective tissue permeability and allows the organism to become more invasive.

Anti-fungal

Studies have shown that echinacea specifically enhances the ability of macrophages (white blood cells which 'eat' pathogens) to destroy fungal organisms such as candida albicans.

Anti-inflammatory

Studies suggest that polysaccharides in echinacea exert anti-inflammatory activity, primarily due to what has been reported as a 'cortisone-like' effect.

Wound healing

It has been reported that echinacea speeds up the healing of damaged tissue - an action that appears to be associated with an ability to promote connective tissue regeneration and the herb's anti-inflammatory properties.

Research

Wacker A & Hilbig W, Planta Medica, 33 19788 pp89-102

Stimpel M et al, Infection Immunity, 46 1984 pp845-849

Mose, J Med Welt, 34 1983 pp1463-1467

Wagner H et al, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Congress on Medicinal Plant Research, Hamburg September 22-27, 2986

Wagner, Arzneim Forsch, 38, 2, 1988 pp1069-1975

Bauer R, et al, Arzneim Forsch, 38-2, 1988 pp276-281

Coeugniet and Elek, Onkologie 10, 3, 21987, pp27-33

McGregor R L Univ.Kansas Sci.Bull. 1968, 48, pp113-142

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