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Article: Study Questions Echinacea in Treating the Common Cold.
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- October 19, 2004
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MARSHFIELD, Wis., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With cold season just around the corner, a study conducted by Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wis., questions the ability of the herb echinacea to reduce the severity or duration of the common cold.
"Our study didn't show any benefit of using echinacea to treat the common cold," said Steven H. Yale, M.D., a Marshfield Clinic internal medicine specialist and assistant director of the Clinical Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.
The study, published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, involved 128 individuals who received either 100 milligrams of echinacea or a placebo. Participants, ...