According to a new report from the US, taking echinacea may cut the risk of developing a cold and may also reduce symptoms significantly if you’ve already got a cold. One study showed that a combination of echinacea plus vitamin C cut the risk of getting a cold by 86 percent. Although this conflicts with other recent research that showed no beneficial effect when taking the popular herbal cold remedy, some experts believe that echinacea may help to boost the immune system when taken for short periods of time.
According to researchers from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy:
“An analysis of the current evidence in the literature suggests that echinacea has a benefit in decreasing the incidence and duration of the common cold… However, large-scale randomised prospective studies controlling for variables such as species, quality of preparation and dose of echinacea, method of cold induction and objectivity of study endpoints evaluated are needed before echinacea for the prevention or treatment of the common cold can become standard practice.”
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