Echinacea vs. the common cold
Echinacea has been found to reduce the risk of getting the common cold by as much as 50%. Discuss breaking news about research into echinacea and share your take on the health benefits of taking echinacea.
by Jamaal Harrison
The herb “Echinacea” is often referred to as “purple coneflower,” “American coneflower,” or simply “coneflower.” Sometimes it is also known as “snake root.” This is due to its thick black root, which was historically used by Aboriginals to treat snake bites. Echinacea grows in...
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Every couple of years, it seems, there's a new study of whether purple coneflower, or echinacea, prevents the common cold. The most recent assessment, ...
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A new study out of the University of California San Francisco casts doubt on echinacea's ability to prevent colds. This latest study, published in the ...
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By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The popular herbal cold-fighter echinacea may not work as advertised, a new clinical trial shows. ...
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Echinacea, or coneflower, is a fabulous plant for all gardens. Especially loved in cottage gardens and meadow-style plantings, Echinacea purpurea, ...
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The easy-to-divide perennials include those above as well as agapanthus, aster, campanula, coreopsis, echinacea, hosta, iris, monarda, gaillardia, ...
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ANDREW WEIL Q. I heard recently that taking echinacea can pose a cancer risk. Is this true? A. Echinacea, a traditional herbal remedy prepared from the root ...
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Although there has been a lot of research on Echinacea, there haven't been a lot of answers. Part of this is because commercial preparations of the plant ...
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Coneflowers (Echinacea cvs.) — Gardeners have benefited from the many new coneflowers that have been flooding the nurseries in the past five years and this ...
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“I use herbs and supplements in my practice all the time, and when I’m telling somebody to go out and get echinacea, well, there are 40 types of echinacea ...
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The species of Echinacea are:
* Echinacea angustifolia - Narrow-leaf Coneflower
* Echinacea atrorubens - Topeka Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea laevigata - Smooth Coneflower, Smooth Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea paradoxa - Yellow Coneflower, Bush's Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea sanguinea - Sanguine purple coneflower
* Echinacea simulata - Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea tennesseensis - Tennessee Coneflower
Source: Wikipedia.org
* Echinacea angustifolia - Narrow-leaf Coneflower
* Echinacea atrorubens - Topeka Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea laevigata - Smooth Coneflower, Smooth Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea paradoxa - Yellow Coneflower, Bush's Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea sanguinea - Sanguine purple coneflower
* Echinacea simulata - Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower
* Echinacea tennesseensis - Tennessee Coneflower
Source: Wikipedia.org
- Rhinoviruses are responsible for about half of all common colds in children and adults.
- School children usually catch between seven and 10 colds a year, and adults two to five.
- Common colds and flu can be transmitted by hands and contact with commonly-touched surfaces.











