Background & Aim: Feed additives have been widely used to stimulate appetite, improve growth performance and immune system function in livestock nutrition. For many years antibiotics have been used in livestock production to improve growth performance. Following the ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters in animal feeds in European Union and increasing demand for organic...

Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench, Asteraceae, a native of North America is among the most frequently utilized Echinacea spp. for medicinal, cosmetic, and beverage preparations. Most of the echinacea preparations in the industry originate from wild harvesting and few from non-standardized (unregulated) cultivation and harvesting. According to the recent reports (Brevoort 1996), echinacea preparati...

Depending on how this Asteraceae family member is classified, there are up to 12 different species of Echinacea. The most commonly used species for medicinal purposes is Echinacea purpurea, which is easy to cultivate and therefore, product demand does not put a stress on native populations of Echinacea species that are difficult to cultivate. Most preparations found in the market are derived fr...

Echinacea species are used for beneficial effects on immune function, and various prevalent phytochemicals have immunomodulatory effects. Using a commercial E. purpurea (L.) Moench product, we have evaluated the myelopoietic effect on bone marrow of rats treated with various extracts and correlated this with their chemical class composition. Granulocyte/macrophage-colony forming cells (GM-CFCs)...

Echinacea (Asteraceae), a North American genus of 11 recognized taxa (McGregor 1968), is of great economic and scientific interest. Three species, E. angustifolia DC. var. angustifolia, E. pallida (Nutt.) and E. purpurea (L.) Moench, show potential pharmacological activity (Bauer et al. 1988a; Bauer and Wagner 1991). Hydroalcoholic extracts of the roots of these three taxa stimulate phagocytosi...

Abstract. Choirunnisa LF, Solichatun, Yunus A. 2022. Effect of vermicompost and biostarter on the growth photosynthetic rate Echinacea purpurea. Asian J Agric 6: 35-39. purpurea (L.) Moench or purple coneflower is a medicinal plant that originated from North America began to cultivate in Indonesia. A proper method needed for improving its development adjust tropical area like This study aimed d...

Background Echinacea purpurea, a purple coneflower plant of the compositae family (Asteraceae), is native to North America and commonly used as an herbal supplement to enhance immune function. Echinacea purpurea has been shown to stimulate macrophage activity which is a known stimulator of nitric oxide (NO) production. Echinacea purpurea supplementation (8,000 mg·d) in untrained (42.5 ± 1.6 mL·...

Imunitas merupakan suatu reaksi pertahanan tubuh terhadap bahan asing, terdapat kondisi dimana sistem imun dapat terganggu sehingga menyebabkan penyakit seperti autoimun, alergi, dan imunodefisiensi. Saat ini obat sintetik yang mengobati kelainan imun, tetapi sintesik memiliki efek samping. Sehingga diperlukan pengobatan alternatif penggunaannya dinilai lebih aman. Asteraceae suku tumbuhan terb...