4. Echinacea
While people have used this plant to cure ailments near forever, researchers today are able to explain why. Extracts have been shown to kill Strep (Streptococcus pyogenes) bacteria. This particular bacteria can cause toxic shock syndrome, flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis, and strep throat. Wow.
It also is thought to work by fighting inflammation related to infections to aid in its healing. This is surely one of the reasons we have bottled and packaged and kept this on our shelves at the stores for so long. Doses of this could be named a cure-all.
It can prevent the common cold when taken long-term (a month plus), and it can be taken for extended periods of time to ward off the huge variety of bacterias (and more maladies) we come across, daily. It’s of the daisy flower family, also sometimes called coneflowers. It’s a beautiful plant, with many beautiful benefits.