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There was a study done on 500 patients with the flu comparing echinacea to the drug

camiflu and camiflu is mainly for influenza flu and many times they give it to a patient

if you'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 camiflu in decreasing the symptoms of the flu with

reduced risk of the complications in other words they found that echinacea had less side

effects surprise now what are the side effects of camiflu we have nausea vomiting diarrhea

dizziness headaches nosebleeds insomnia respiratory problems and the flu and I just want to mention

before trying any of these natural recommendations check with your doctor first but how does echinacea

function well it has anti-embroral effects it even improves cold symptoms like 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 enhances the immune system directly

by increasing monocytes monocytes are baby macrophages which act very similar to that computer game

packment where they go around and they just eat up things so monocytes turn into phagocytes

which basically eat pathogens now echinacea also 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 pathogens like antimicrobials and number three they throw

this little net over the pathogen to encapsulate it 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

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