Echinacea Herbal Medicine with a Wild History
This work provides detailed overviews and offer new insights into the biology, life histories, cultivation, markets, legal protection, chemistry and medical use of Echinacea species. The extensively detailed maps in this text are the most a
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Echinacea
Herbal Medicine with a Wild History
Echinacea
Kelly Kindscher Editor
Echinacea Herbal Medicine with a Wild History
Editor Kelly Kindscher Kansas Biological Survey University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18155-4 ISBN 978-3-319-18156-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18156-1
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To the Native Americans who learned about the benefits of Echinacea as a medicine long ago and have shared their traditional ecological and medical knowledge with us.
Foreword
This drug, which has slowly wedged its way into attention is persistently forcing itself into conspicuity. The probabilities are that in a time to come, it will be ardently sought and widely used for it is not one of the multitude that have flashed into sight, been artfully pushed, then investigated, found wanting, and next dropped out of sight and out of mind. (Lloyd 1904)
I knew that the prophetic words of John Uri Lloyd, penned more than a hundred years ago, rang true when I first heard the word Echinacea mentioned on a television sitcom in the late 1990s. Lloyd is cofounder of Lloyd Brothers, Specific Medicines, Inc., of Cincinnati, and a respected and still influential figure in the development of an American materia medica. He and his brothers, Nelson Ashley Lloyd and Curtis Gates Lloyd, also founded the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, the world’s largest library devoted to medicinal plant-related topics. The Lloyds made the first pharmaceutical Echinacea preparation in 1895 sold only to physicians. One might also argue that Echinacea made the Lloyd Library. By the early 1920s that product became the most widely prescribed native plant preparation by physicians in the United States. I
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