Echinacea is as Effective as Tamiflu for the Flu

There was a study done on 500 patients with the flu comparing echinacea to the drug Tamiflu.And Tamiflu is mainly for influenza, the flu, and many times they give it to a patient ifyou’re exposed to the virus, yet you haven’t had the symptoms yet. And this is what they found.Echinacea had the same efficacy as Tamiflu in decreasing the symptoms of the flu with reducedrisk of the complications. In other words, they found that echinacea had less side effects

Surprise! Now, what are the side effects of Tamiflu? We have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,dizziness, headaches, nosebleeds, insomnia, respiratory problems, and the flu. And I justwant to mention before trying any of these natural recommendations, check with your doctor first.But how does echinacea function? Well, it has antiviral effects. It even improves cold symptomslike sneezing and sinus pressure. It has anti-inflammatory effects, very, very powerful

ones if you’re using the roots. It has some anti-migraine effects, and it actually enhancesthe immune system directly by increasing monocytes. Monocytes are baby macrophages,which act very similar to that computer game Pac-Man, where they go around and they just eatup things. So monocytes turn into phagocytes, which basically eat pathogens. Now, echinaceaalso can stimulate neutrophils. Now, neutrophils are usually seen in the acute phase where you have

a lot of inflammation in the first part of the infection. And neutrophils mainly do three things.They can eat pathogens, number one. Number two, they release little chemicals that kill pathogenslike antimicrobials. And number three, they throw this little net over the pathogen to encapsulateit and trap it. And there’s certain chemicals in there that they can then dissolve the pathogen.Quite interesting. And lastly, echinacea can stimulate your natural killer cells,

which mainly do two things. One is they kill viruses. Number two, they kill cancer. All right,well, thanks for watching. Hey, before you go, if you’re benefiting from any of my content,I would love to hear about your success story. Please share it in the link down below.