Echinacea and Reduced Tonsillitis Attack Frequency

• Echinacea can help with Azithromycin in prevention of recurrent tonsillitis in children.

  • 2020-07
  • RCT · n = 100
  • American journal of otolaryngology 41(4)
  • • Osama G Abdel-Naby Awad

  • PubMed: 32487336
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2019.102344

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Tonsillitis Attack Frequency

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  Group 2 and group 3 had significant less number of tonsillitis attacks and severity of assessed symptoms during 6 months of prophylactic treatment with significant better results in group 3 (i.e. AZT plus Echinacea) compared to group 2 (I.e. AZT alone)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  5 ml oral suspension; 3 times daily for 10 consecutive days every month