A Cold Blow for Echinacea
Oct 16th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Alternative Medicine, Echinacea, FeaturedNext to Mom’s chicken soup, Echinacea has long been thought to be an effective way to battle an existing cold or keep you from getting one in the first place. The World Health Organization recognized it as a cold treatment in 1999, and enough people believed in it to rack up $153 million in 2004 sales in America alone.
Not so fast, say researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
