View photos of the medicinal plant, Ceanothus velutinus (Red root), profiled in Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States.

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It has been postulated that Red root is additionally therapeutic due to its influence on surrounding cellular charge. This stabilizing effect is evidenced by its activity on swollen adenoids, or in the extreme, tonsillitis.

View photos of the medicinal plant Ceanothus fendleri (Fendler’s buckbrush), profiled in Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States (as Ceanothus spp.).

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Defining Red root’s amplitude is important. Consider it a long–term low–level approach for these conditions. The plant occasionally gets touted as an ‘anti–viral’ herb. I believe that is over stating Red root’s influence, as its most pronounced effect is not against a particular virus, but rather its reduction of the disorganization that a virus may cause.