What is the most popular herbal product in US..? Echinacea. Millions spend about $150 Million per year for it. And now we learn it does not work. Our money has been wasted. Nothing can cure the common cold. It still takes around 7 days to get rid of it. No matter what.
This and more comes to us from a federally funded research project of National Institutes of Health, reported in todays New England Journal of Medicine. The research seemed to prove Echinaea could not prevent the common cold; nor could it cure the common cold. So save your money.
Yet many of us know people who would swear taking Echinacea helped them in ways they could measure. Maybe so. It just might help a little if we really believe it will. The placebo benefit can be helpfully real. Also, it just may be the researchers used a smaller dose in their studies than the people who claim it helped them. I don't know. I do know that sales will suffer even more than they already have due to previous negative test results of this popular herbal product.
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