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| | Dr. Michael K. Hobson's Resource Center Info Echinacea |
 | | This herb was known in U.S. history as the original "Snake Oil" because in 1870 a patent-medicine purveyor, Dr. H.C.F. Meyer of Pawnee City, Nebraska, used it in his Meyer’s Blood Purifier and promoted the remedy as "an absolute cure" for rattlesnake bite, blood poisoning, and a host of other ills. |
 | | Although Echinacea has never been shown to cure rattlesnake bite, European studies from the I 950s through the 1 980s agree it has remarkable healing properties. |
 | | Contemporary herbalists use echinacea as a botanical antibiotic and immune system stimulant for boils, colds and flu, bladder infections, tonsillitis, and other infectious diseases. |
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