What Are The Functions And Benefits Of Echinacea Extract?
What Are The Functions Of Echinacea Extract?
Echinacea Extract is a health product extracted from natural plants and processed through modern technology. It has a variety of functions and effects.
Antibacterial and antiviral
Echinacea extract has significant antibacterial and antiviral effects. It can kill bacteria and viruses in the body and effectively prevent harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans from invading the body. It can also inhibit the activity of viruses, help promote wound healing and prevent the spread of infection.
Anti-infection
Echinacea extract can improve the symptoms of infection in the body. By promoting the normal secretion of adrenocortical hormones and eliminating inflammation in various organs, it has a significant effect in the treatment of infectious diseases.
It can also regulate Toll-like receptors in the immune system, activate immune cells, and exert anti-infection functions.
Regulate immunity
Echinacea extract is a powerful immune stimulant, which can significantly improve the body's immunity and resistance, and effectively prevent the occurrence of seasonal diseases such as colds and flu. It promotes the growth and development of immune organs and enhances cellular immune function by increasing the level of body fluid antibodies and the transformation rate of immune organ B lymphocytes. Echinacea extract can also directly act on immune cells, enhance the activity of macrophages and lymphocytes, and improve the phagocytic capacity of immune cells, thereby enhancing overall immune function.
Supports wound healing and skin health
Echinacea extract can stimulate the non-specific defense system, attack virus-infected cells, accelerate wound healing and treat wounds. In addition, it also has anti-infective effects, can improve the symptoms of infection in the body, and promote the normal secretion of adrenal cortical hormones, which is beneficial to one's own health.
What Are The Health Benefits Of Echinacea Extract For Skin?
Promote skin health and delay aging
Promote skin protein formation: Echinacea Extract helps the formation of skin proteins, especially protecting collagen from degradation and maintaining its structure. This helps maintain skin's elasticity and firmness, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Antioxidant: The flavonoids and other active ingredients in Echinacea extract have powerful antioxidant capabilities, which can neutralize free radicals and reduce the damage of oxidative stress to the skin, thus delaying the aging process of the skin.
Whitening and Blemishes
Reduce pigmentation: Certain ingredients in echinacea extract can reduce pigmentation on the skin, help fade spots and dullness, and make the skin whiter and more translucent.
Eliminate spots: Long-term use of skin care products containing echinacea extract can help eliminate skin spots caused by various reasons, such as sun spots, stains, etc.
Anti-allergic and soothing
Anti-allergic: Echinacea extract has significant anti-allergic effects and can relieve skin allergy symptoms such as redness, swelling, itching, etc. caused by cosmetics, environmental pollution and other factors.
Soothing skin: For sensitive skin, echinacea extract can soothe the skin, reduce skin discomfort, and restore the skin to a calm state.
Protection and restoration
Protection: Echinacea extract also has a protective effect, which can enhance the skin's resistance and reduce damage to the skin from external factors. For example, it can protect against skin problems caused by computer radiation, such as acne, spots, etc.
Promote wound healing: Certain components in echinacea extract have the ability to promote tissue growth and wound healing, and have a certain repair effect on minor skin injuries or wounds.
Improve skin texture
Smooth and smooth: The comprehensive effect of echinacea extract makes the skin smoother and smoother, improving the overall skin quality. Long-term use can make the skin healthier and more energetic.
What Is Echinacea Extract?
Echinacea extract is a natural product extracted from specific parts of the Echinacea plant, such as leaves, stems and roots. Echinacea is a plant native to North America and southern Canada. Currently, several varieties are used in drug development, mainly including Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea angustifolia and Echinacea leucophylla. Echinacea extract contains a variety of phytochemicals, such as polysaccharides, flavonoids, caffeic acid derivatives, essential oils, polyacetylenes, alkylamine alkaloids, etc. These ingredients show positive effects in immunomodulation, anti-infection, antibacterial and antiviral aspects.
Effect Of Echinacea Extract On Immunity
The effect of Echinacea Extract on immunity is multifaceted. As a natural immunomodulator, it has been widely studied and applied.
1. Enhance the function of immune cells
Improve the activity of immune cells: Echinacea extract can enhance the activity of immune cells, including macrophages and lymphocytes. These cells play an important role in the immune system and can engulf and remove pathogens, thereby enhancing the body's immunity.
Promote the proliferation of immune cells: Echinacea extract can also promote the proliferation of immune cells, increase the number of immune cells, and further enhance the body's immune function.
2. Regulate immune factors
Induce cytokine production: Echinacea extract can induce the production of cytokines such as interleukin-2 (IL-2) and v-interferon (IFN-y). These cytokines play an important regulatory role in the immune system and can enhance the lethality and antiviral ability of immune cells.
3. Improve overall immunity
Enhance humoral immune function: Echinacea extract improves the humoral immune function of animals by increasing the level of humoral antibodies and the transformation rate of B lymphocytes in immune organs, which is of great significance for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
Improve chronic fatigue syndrome: Echinacea extract also has a certain improvement effect on people with chronic fatigue syndrome, by enhancing immunity, relieving fatigue and improving the quality of life.
In What Fields Is Echinacea Extract Applied?
Health care products
In the health care products industry, Echinacea extract is often used to prepare functional health care products to help people enhance immunity, improve sleep quality, and promote physical recovery.
Cosmetics
Some cosmetics brands use Echinacea extract in skin care products, using its antioxidant properties to provide protection and soothing for the skin.
Food and medicine
In the food field, Echinacea extract can be used as a natural additive to enhance the nutritional value and taste of food. In the medical field, studies have shown that Echinacea extract may have anti-tumor and antiviral activities, providing a potential direction for the development of new drugs.
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