Echinacea Protects from Cold
Echinacea has been a staple supplement to boost a persons immune system and it has been used by Native Americans for centuries.
U.S. Researchers reported 2 years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 353, P. 341) that there is zero preventive effect by using Echinacea.
A new study published in The Lancet Infection Diseases (2007, No. 7, P. 473) comes to a different result. Echinacea protects and accelerates the healing of colds.
According to the researchers around Craig Coleman, University of Connecticut, the risk to catch a cold is 58% lower when taking Echinacea. When sick, Echinacea shortens the duration of the cold by an average of 1.4 days.
Coleman’s group examined 14 studies on the efficiency on Echincea substances in which some 800 different preparations have been tested.
In one of the studies Echincea was combined with Vitamin C. The risk to catch a cold is reduced by 86%.
It is not clear how Echinacea works with the immune system the study says.
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