Echinacea reduces incidence, duration of colds.(Across Specialties)

Clinical Psychiatry News | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Users of echinacea supplements in clinical trials reduced their odds of developing the common cold by more than half, according to findings from a meta-analysis of 14 published, randomized, placebo-controlled trials.

When patients in the trials caught a cold, those who used echinacea supplements also cut a mean of 1.4 days from the duration of their illness, compared with patients who received a placebo. The trials involved preparations of the three most common Echinacea species (E. purpurea, E. augustifolia, and E. pallida) either alone or in combination with other ...

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