Purple Cone Flowers - provide beauty and health!

God certainly is a great Artist!

These purple cone flowers are not only pretty to look at, but they also have medicinal healing properties in their roots. God certainly created them as a "win-win" flower - with beauty and healing attributes!

Also called Echinacea, which is the dried root of this plant. It's a natural remedy for colds.

The following was excerpted from the Safe Alternative Medicine website in the UK:

Fighting Infection

When taken orally, echinacea enhances the movement of white blood cells into areas of infection to destroy foreign particles, bacteria, viruses, and other micro-organisms. Echinacea can raise white blood cell activity when necessary to fight infection and lower it when the body's condition has improved. It also inhibits the growth of bacteria such as staph (Staphylococcus aureus) and increases general immune system function.

Soothing Skin

Used topically, echinacea speeds up wound healing and also prevents dry skin. It has also been sown to be effective in the treatment of psoriasis, eczema and inflammatory skin conditions. In one study of 4500 patients with inflammatory skin conditions, including psoriasis, 85% were cured with topical applications of echinacea salve.

The colors are very fibrant!

These flowers always remind me of badminton birdies!

Looks like a sea urchin! Amazing what God has created!

The Gold Finches love to eat the tiny seeds in the center.

Thank you for looking.