1. Immune stimulation effect
Inulin: Acts by increasing the number of granulocyte and white blood cells, and enhances the chemotaxis of monocytes and neutroviruses to produce bacteriolytic effects.
Polysaccharide: Hydrocarbon receptors on the surface of T lymphocytes and macrophages produce immune stimulation, which can increase the phagocytosis ability of macrophages, and stimulate macrophages to increase the number of tumor necrosis factor, interferon and leukocyte interleukin, which can destroy tumor cells.
Alkyl amines and caffeic acid derivatives: lipophilic alkyl amines can increase phagocytosis of macrophages.
Echinacea echinacea: Improve the activity of non-specific T cells, produce interferon, promote the secretion of lymphocytes, reduce T-helper cells, and reduce the ratio of T-helper cells to inhibitory factors.
2. Tissue renewal and anti-infection effect
Inhibition of hyaluronidase (hyaluronidase), can stimulate the growth of fibroblasts and glucosaminase synthesis, produce corticosterone effect, promote the secretion of adrenocortical hormone. Polysaccharides have anti-infection effects.
3. Antibacterial action: Echinoside and caffeic acid derivatives have weak antibacterial activity.
4. Antiviral action: It can inhibit influenza, herpes and blistering viruses. The antiviral activity is attributed to the inhibitory action of hyaluronidase, which can block the viral receptors on the cell surface.
The Application of Echinacea Purpurea Extract
1. Nutritional supplement
· Strengthening the immune system; and it can be used as an immunomodulator; Improving the activity of different immune cells.
· Preventing influenza; shortening the duration of cold.
· Antiviral; Inhibiting the virus growing, used to treat rabies and snake venom.
· Antifungal; Polysaccharide & caffeic acid have antibacterial activity which can resist Candidiasis.
· Anti-inflammatory; Strong anti-inflammatory activity, used for bacterial infections.
2. Feed additives
· For horse feeding: it can increase the phage ability of neutrophils and the number of peripheral lymphocytes, and effectively stimulate the horse's immune activity.
· For chicken feeding: it can obviously increase the weight of the chickens in the experimental group and reduce the infection of coccidia.
· For fish, shrimp and other aquatic animals: it can promote growth and increase immunity. Also available for many other animals.
