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The real way to take Echinacea! By: Jonathan Bille  |
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 Echinacea is an herbal supplement, which seems to come in and out of popular use. Most people know that Echinacea is used to help fight winter colds but very few people understand how it works or the proper dosing methods for successful cold fighting.
First and foremost, Echinacea is not a product that should be taken daily. Many people make the mistake of taking an Echinacea supplement as part of their daily supplement routine. The philosophy behind this dosing method is, because Echinacea raises the immune system, using the product daily will help fight against contracting a cold. But this is not really the most effective use of Echinacea. This type of preventative measure is much more successful when using antioxidants like vitamins A, C & E.
Echinacea is most effective when you first notice that you have a cold coming on. In this case, your body has already begun to produce additional white blood cells to combat the cold. Taking Echinacea at this time helps to increase the number of white blood cells the body is producing. The resulting effect is that the increased numbers of white blood cells overwhelm the cold, eliminating it from the body.
Using Echinacea means being in tune with your body and how you’re feeling. Most people, who use Echinacea exclusively when they have a cold, still do not use the product properly, not in that they take too much, but that they take too little. Here are some examples of usage so you can start to get the most out of this incredibly effective supplement.
When you first feel a cold come on start by taking two Echinacea supplement pills. Wait a few hours and reassess how you are feeling. Do you feel better or worse than before you took the Echinacea? If you feel better, it’s a good bet that the Echinacea has already been successful defeating the cold. If you feel worse, the cold is stronger than current white blood cell count trying to fight the cold. At this point you should double the amount of Echinacea you take. You took two earlier so now you should take four. Wait a few more hours and reassess how you are feeling. If you are feeling worse than the before you should double the amount of Echinacea you take again. You took four last time so now you should take eight.
And you keep repeating this process until you physically can tell that the cold has started to subside. Think of the cold and your immune response as two bar graphs standing side by side. As the level of the cold increases you need to up your intake of Echinacea to increase the immune response to not just meet the level of the cold but to surpass it.
But winter colds are fighters, which is why you may need to keep doubling your Echinacea intake as to continually surpass the level of the cold in the body. As the level of the cold increases, increasing Echinacea helps raise the immune response to keep the cold at a lower level than the immune response.
Side effects of using Echinacea are few and mild, but some users have reported symptoms like nausea, dizziness and rash. With any supplement you should check with your doctor if you have any preexisting condition or if you have question about whether using Echinacea is right for you.
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