Ineffective echinacea

December 22, 2010

If echinacea is your cold remedy of choice, know that this flower’s got little power when it comes to the common cold.

This herbal treatment will lessen the severity of your symptoms by only 10 percent, and reduce how long you’re down and out with your cold by only half a day at most, according to new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

BTW if it’s a cough you’ve got, you may be in luck: eating lots of chocolate may help.

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