FREE: Echinacea Purpurea Seeds Healing Purple Cone Flower

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Hello up for auction is the seeds you see in the picture
I ordered a gram of them took what I wanted and am listing the rest. If you want you could try to count them in the picture

Latin Name: Echinacea purpurea

Perennial. Easy to grow once established. May die back in winter, but will regrow. Beautiful, ornamental flowers. Traditional medicinal plant.

From the ancient A Modern Herbal:

Synonyms- Black Sampson. Coneflower.
Parts Used- Root, dried; also rhizome.
Habitat- America, west of Ohio, and cultivated in Britain and elsewhere.
History- Named Echinacea by Linnaeus, and Rudbeckia, after Rudbeck, father and son, who were his predecessors at Upsala.
The flowers are a rich purple and the florets are seated round a high cone; seeds, four-sided achenes. Root tapering, cylindrical, entire, slightly spiral, longitudinally furrowed; fracture short, fibrous; bark thin; wood, thick, in alternate porous, yellowish and black transverse wedges, and the rhizome has a circular pith. It has a faint aromatic smell, with a sweetish taste, leaving a tingling sensation in the mouth.

Constituents- Oil and resin both in wood and bark and masses of inulin, inuloid, sucrose, vulose, betaine, two phytosterols and fatty acids, oleic, cerotic, linolic and palmatic.

Medicinal Action and Uses- Echinacea increases bodily resistance to infection and is used for boils, erysipelas, septicaemia, cancer, syphilis and other impurities of the blood, its action being antiseptic. It has also useful properties as a strong alterative and aphrodisiac. As an injection, the extract has been used for hemorrhoids and a tincture of the fresh root has been found beneficial in diphtheria and putrid fevers.

Other Species-
Echinacea purpurea has similar properties to E. angustifolia; the fresh root of this is the part used.