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Article: Fight the common cold naturally.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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LONDON: A popular herbal remedy can cut the risk of catching a cold by more than a half, according to a scientific assessment of the supposed health benefits of the echinacea plant.
Scientists reviewed 14 previous trials of echinacea to assess whether the herb really works against the common cold virus, and concluded that it can reduce the risk of infection by 58%. The researchers also found that echinacea remedies can reduce the time that a person, once infected, is affected by a cold virus by an average of 1.4 days - a statistically significant reduction.
Echinacea, a group of native North American plants, has long been considered to have medicinal properties, but ...