One Hundred Years of Echinacea angustifolia Harvest in the Smoky Hills of Kansas, USA Re-sprouting of Echinacea angustifolia Augments Sustainability of Wild Medicinal Plant Populations We have published several papers for you to look at and explore the topic in more depth. We encourage you to join in our mapping project on location of wild Echinacea.Įchinacea and mixed-grass prairie vegetation projectĢ002 baseline data on Echinacea angustifolia populations. We want to share with you the work we have done on conservation planning. Overall, we encourage the use of sustainably harvested wild and cultivated organic-grown Echinacea as an herbal medicine, especially to ward off and reduce the length of upper respiratory infections.Īll of this work has culminated in the recently published book:Įchinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild HistoryĬlick here to jump down to a synopsis of the book.Ĭonservation planning for Echinacea species We learned harvesting techniques and that harvested plants re-sprout from wild harvesters and then conducted research to show that half of wild harvested plants re-sprouted after being harvested, and that the greater conservation concerns were from converting prairies to agricultural crop fields, herbicide use on rangeland, over-grazing, and development, especially oil and gas field development. We knew that the majority of Echinacea root was being harvested from the wild because it was less expensive and believed to be of stronger medicine than cultivated Echinacea. Many of us were concerned about wild populations being over-harvested with the rise in popularity of this herbal product. This immune-stimulating medicine was used extensively by Native American tribes for a number of ailments and as a cure-all, and much recent research has been conducted on its interesting chemistry and its health-promoting effects. We have been involved in research on the important medicinal plant, Echinacea, and especially our native Echinacea angustifolia over a number of years. Echinacea angustifolia (narrow-leaf purple coneflower)
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