Philobiblon

As a person who gets a cold every time I catch public transport once the weather has left dead summer (or at least it often feel like that), I had tried echinacea. But it is hard to tell wiith a case study of one whether it is working – my colds usually last two weeks and “flus” a month … so it all blurs after a while.

But after reading some apparently definitive study or another I gave up on echinacea. But it seems I’ll have to try it again:

Use of echinacea, or extract of the purple coneflower, before the onset of full-blown symptoms of the common cold reduces the incidence by more than a half and the duration by almost two full days, researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.