Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold.

Authors
Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Year 2015
Clinical Question: Are Echinacea products associated with a reduced incidence and a shorter duration of common colds compared with placebo?Bottom Line: Individual prophylaxis trials show no association with prevention of the common cold, but exploratory meta-analysis suggests that Echinacea products may be associated with a small reduction in cold incidence. In treatment trials, there was no association of Echinacea products with a shorter duration of colds.
Epistemonikos ID: 85c257a93e31661cf17a2c4b0c36618b1133c757
First added on: Jul 31, 2017