Echinacea and Prevented Respiratory Tract Infection Symptom

• Herbal Medicine in Children With Respiratory Tract Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2018-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 2,181
  • Academic pediatrics 18(1)
  • • Dennis Anheyer
    • Holger Cramer
    • Romy Lauche
    • Felix Joyonto Saha
    • Gustav Dobos

  • PubMed: 28610802
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.06.006

  2 Insights on

  • Prevented Respiratory Tract Infection Symptom

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  No clear evidence for Echinacea (4 trials) or an herbal compound preparation (1 trial) in preventing RTI symptoms was found.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No