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Echinacea

Fights infections, reduces symptoms of colds and flu, stimulates the immune system and heals minor wounds and burns

Looking at echinacea's reputation through history is like riding a roller coaster. It's up, it's down, it's up again. Before European colonists showed up, the Plains Indians were using this native North American wildflower as a healing herb. The colonists started using it, too, and in the 1870s, a Nebraska doctor