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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
BioCare
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independent, privately owned science based company founded in the United Kingdom
by practitioners with many years experience in biological science and nutrition.
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over what goes into their products. The entire BioCare product range is designed
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food by thy medicine, thy medicine be thy food”.
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