Echinacea and Reduced Duration of Common Cold

• Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold.

  • 2014-02-20
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 4,631
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2014(7)
  • • Marlies Karsch-Völk
    • Bruce Barrett
    • David Kiefer
    • Rudolf Bauer
    • Karin Ardjomand-Woelkart
    • Klaus Linde

  • PubMed: 24554461
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000530.pub3

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Duration of Common Cold

  • High evidence

  Of the seven treatment trials reporting data on the duration of colds, only one showed a significant effect of Echinacea over placebo.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No