Echinacea painting

This painting of Echinacea lives in Toronto, Ontario  It is 4x5ft, done in mixed media.  The yellow background symbolizes strength.  The faeries are acting out a healing.  The girl faerie is sad, not feeling well.  The boy -with humor and grace, offers her a remedy from the plant...but she must come get it.  I believe she will!
This plant is for acute onset colds and flu and must be taken in sufficient dosage for a period of time and then discontinued.  It is a medicine plant as opposed to a food plant.  It has become endangered because, for several years the herbal market demand elicited the removal of 10,000 lbs of the dried root of this plant per week!  As you can imagine, that is alot of plants.  Echinacea once graced our plains in Montana as far as the eye could see.  If you would like to become more aware of plant populations and solutions visit http://www.plantsavers.org/