Echinacea field where international study showed Tearrdrop Farm echinacea to be a superior echinacea.Echinacea home page International German study showed Teardrop Farm's echinacea to be a superior echinacea to other echinacea tested.
From Shannon Binns at the Biology department of the University of Ottawa in Ontario Canada: “...you have all the good chemistry that one might want in an Echinacea medicine... I am glad that you are insisting on finding a way to maximize the entire goodness of the plants in your products, rather than simply obtaining the greatest amount of material and extracting it. You have a good quality product here...”
Echinacea chart shows Teardrop Farm's echinacea best in German Study.
We have been fortunate here at Teardrop Farm to have been included in several clinical research studies. In a study done by University Professor Dr. Rudolf Bauer at the Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf Germany we were included in a comparison of seven different root sources.

A quote taken from Christopher Hobb’s book Echinacea states:...”Rudolph Bauer, an associate of Wagner’s feels that the fat-soluble components of echinacea are more responsible for the plant’s remarkable immune activity. It is the isobutylamides of the fat-soluble constituents which give fresh and recently dried echinacea its sharp, tingling taste-that “zing” which some herbalist take as the sign of good echinacea.” In the study done in Germany the roots from Teardrop Farm tested greater than 2.3% in isobutylamides more than double the next closest one and well above the bottom which tested at 0.2%. Although these are not the only active compounds in echinacea they certainly reflect an important part of the root profile. Roots from Teardrop Farm are also being analyzed for active compounds at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa Ontario Canada. In the Canadian studies the roots show to be well established in all active compounds.