The herb of Echinacea purpurea contains polysaccharides, essential oils, flavonoids, oxycinnamic acids, tannins and other biologically active substances.
Herb infusion of echinacea purpurea has a general strengthening effect on the body: promotes an increase in the activity of nonspecific factors of body defense; has a stimulating effect on the inductive and productive phases of the humoral and cellular unit of the immune response, increases the activity of microphages; has anti-inflammatory, stress-protective, anxiolytic, antidepressant properties.