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Keywords: adverse side effects, anti-vitamin campaign, Echinacea, Swine Flu, respiratory infection, respiratory problems, Natural remedies
Recently a mainstream newspaper decided to run with the following headline: ‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’.
Recently a mainstream newspaper decided to run with the following headline: ‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’.
With Swine Flu starting to claim lives again this winter season, one would think that the media would send out a positive message regarding the prevention of colds and flu... but no, aside from the obvious ‘vaccination bandwagon’ they all seem to join, most reports are slating proven natural remedies, like echinacea supplements.
Time-tested remedy doesn’t work?
Recently a mainstream newspaper decided to run with the following headline: ‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’.
A US study, conducted by the American College of Physicians, concluded that, for most people, the effects of taking echinacea supplements would be ‘minimal’, and for many people they do not work at all when it comes to warding off the symptoms of colds.
The researchers, led by Professor Bruce Barrett, at the University of Wisconsin, concluded: ‘Any underlying benefit of echinacea is not large and was not demonstrated by our results. Individual choices about whether to use echinacea to treat the common cold should be guided by personal health values and preferences.’
Fourteen to one
Firstly, this is one study showing the complete opposite of what many other studies have already proven.
For instance, a large meta-analysis in 2007, published in The Lancet, reviewed 14 unique studies that confirmed echinacea's significant benefits for helping to alleviate the frequency and duration of the common cold.
This meta-analysis certainly brings into question the results of the comparatively much smaller Wisconsin study. In one of the 14 studies the researchers reviewed in 2007, echinacea was taken alongside vitamin C. This combination reduced cold incidence by 86 per cent!
When echinacea was used alone it reduced cold incidence by 65 per cent. Even when patients were directly inoculated with a rhinovirus - the most common cold-causing virus - echinacea reduced cold incidence by 35 per cent.
The researchers' report said: "With over 200 viruses capable of causing the common cold, echinacea could have a modest effect against rhinovirus but marked effects against other viruses."
Plus, if you read the results of the Wisconsin study, you will find that the length of illness among the volunteers who took echinacea was shortened by between seven to ten hours...
Now, I don’t know about you, but if a remedy can reduce the length of having a cold by 10 hours, I’ll take it... 10 hours of feeling healthy adds one more productive day to my schedule.
This is probably one of the reasons why increasing numbers of people are taking echinacea supplements every year at the first sign of a cold.
In a time when people should be encouraged to act preventatively and protect themselves against the onset of colds and flu, it’s most irresponsible of the media and mainstream medicine to scare people away from using proven natural remedies.
Something anecdotal
On Tuesday, I started feeling a bit rough... headache, tight chest, fatigued, sniffles and an annoying cough. When I got home, I decided to up my dose of vitamin C to an extra 1500mg and before I jumped in to bed, I drank a warm brew of echinacea tea.
Low and behold, when I woke up on Wednesday morning, I felt a lot more energised, my headache was gone, along with the tightness in my chest, and my sniffles had stopped... While I can't claim that I felt 100% better, I certainly felt ready to take on the day...
I will continue this regime, because I am almost certain that if I followed what the mainstream was telling me, I’d probably be in bed today feeling sorry for myself.
Swine Flu: Related Reading
Swine Flu Vaccination Dangers
Adverse Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals are Underplayed and Often Silenced
Is Swine Flu Set to Return With a Vengeance?
Sources:
‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’ published online 21 12 10, dailymail.co.uk
Echinacea 'can prevent a cold' published online 25.06.07
Back to topTime-tested remedy doesn’t work?
Recently a mainstream newspaper decided to run with the following headline: ‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’.
A US study, conducted by the American College of Physicians, concluded that, for most people, the effects of taking echinacea supplements would be ‘minimal’, and for many people they do not work at all when it comes to warding off the symptoms of colds.
The researchers, led by Professor Bruce Barrett, at the University of Wisconsin, concluded: ‘Any underlying benefit of echinacea is not large and was not demonstrated by our results. Individual choices about whether to use echinacea to treat the common cold should be guided by personal health values and preferences.’
Fourteen to one
Firstly, this is one study showing the complete opposite of what many other studies have already proven.
For instance, a large meta-analysis in 2007, published in The Lancet, reviewed 14 unique studies that confirmed echinacea's significant benefits for helping to alleviate the frequency and duration of the common cold.
This meta-analysis certainly brings into question the results of the comparatively much smaller Wisconsin study. In one of the 14 studies the researchers reviewed in 2007, echinacea was taken alongside vitamin C. This combination reduced cold incidence by 86 per cent!
When echinacea was used alone it reduced cold incidence by 65 per cent. Even when patients were directly inoculated with a rhinovirus - the most common cold-causing virus - echinacea reduced cold incidence by 35 per cent.
The researchers' report said: "With over 200 viruses capable of causing the common cold, echinacea could have a modest effect against rhinovirus but marked effects against other viruses."
Plus, if you read the results of the Wisconsin study, you will find that the length of illness among the volunteers who took echinacea was shortened by between seven to ten hours...
Now, I don’t know about you, but if a remedy can reduce the length of having a cold by 10 hours, I’ll take it... 10 hours of feeling healthy adds one more productive day to my schedule.
This is probably one of the reasons why increasing numbers of people are taking echinacea supplements every year at the first sign of a cold.
In a time when people should be encouraged to act preventatively and protect themselves against the onset of colds and flu, it’s most irresponsible of the media and mainstream medicine to scare people away from using proven natural remedies.
Something anecdotal
On Tuesday, I started feeling a bit rough... headache, tight chest, fatigued, sniffles and an annoying cough. When I got home, I decided to up my dose of vitamin C to an extra 1500mg and before I jumped in to bed, I drank a warm brew of echinacea tea.
Low and behold, when I woke up on Wednesday morning, I felt a lot more energised, my headache was gone, along with the tightness in my chest, and my sniffles had stopped... While I can't claim that I felt 100% better, I certainly felt ready to take on the day...
I will continue this regime, because I am almost certain that if I followed what the mainstream was telling me, I’d probably be in bed today feeling sorry for myself.
Swine Flu: Related Reading
Swine Flu Vaccination Dangers
Adverse Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals are Underplayed and Often Silenced
Is Swine Flu Set to Return With a Vengeance?
Sources:
‘Echinacea does not ward off colds say leading doctors’ published online 21 12 10, dailymail.co.uk
Echinacea 'can prevent a cold' published online 25.06.07
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