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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: common cold + herbal + common  Related to the article below (Last Update: 7/1/2008)

False positives are common in drug tests on new moms
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Jun 29, 2008
The study found cold remedy compounds, herbal medications and doctor-prescribed medicines for anxiety or depression often produce false positives for ...
Common sense to avoid common cold
Australian Ageing Agenda, Australia - Jun 24, 2008
The best way to avoid the common cold over winter is with common sense according to a campaign launched this week by the National Prescribing Service (NPS). ...
Good Hygiene Not Pills The Best Way Of Avoiding A Cold Medical News Today (press release)
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Chinese herbal remedies gain popularity
San Mateo County Times, CA - Jun 27, 2008
Patients use the herbs for everything, from the common cold to chronic ailments like diabetes, heart disease, migraine headaches and repetitive stress pain ...
The benefits of an overlooked berry
Columbia Daily Tribune, MO - Jun 29, 2008
"Not much planted for ornament, but rather common on old properties, where its fruit is eaten by chickens, hogs and children." If beets and brussels sprouts ...
SAEM: Use of OTC Cough and Cold Meds for Babies Was Common
MedPage Today, NJ - Jun 2, 2008
Parents were asked about which over-the-counter drugs -- cough and cold medications, analgesics, rubs, vitamins, herbal medicines, etc. ...
The age of reason
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Jun 28, 2008
She was finally seen by a doctor who was clued in to NPC, a common cancer in Malaysia. He referred her for further investigations to exclude NPC. ...
Common ingedients can help cut risk of disease
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - Jun 16, 2008
This common cooking ingredient can cut blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Like cinnamon, garlic can be beneficial to sufferers of diabetes. ...
>>Herbal Remedies:Do They Really Help?
LeadershipNigeria, Nigeria - Jun 20, 2008
They have been suggested for such conditions as the common cold, indigestion, constipation, and they also serve as laxatives and also help to regulate the ...

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Barefoot bliss on tiny Fiji island
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Jun 26, 2008
The common industry on many of these islands is the harvesting of coconuts and the production of copra, the fleshy white kernel of the nut. ...
Prevent deadly interactions with lots of communication
LubbockOnline.com, TX - Jun 26, 2008
"You're the common link between all of us," said Rod Hicks, University Medical Center health system's endowed chair for patient safety and a professor. ...
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… of a fixed combination phytomedicine in the treatment of the common cold (acute viral respiratory … -
H Henneicke-von Zepelin, C Hentschel, J Schnitker, … - Curr Med Res Opin, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... OBJECTIVE: The common cold (acute viral respiratory tract infection) is one of the ...
trial of a commercially available fixed combination herbal remedy (Radix ...

… for potentiating vaccination against the influenza syndrome and protection against the common cold … -
F Scaglione, G Cattaneo, M Alessandria, R Cogo - Drugs Exp Clin Res, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... anti-influenza polyvalent vaccination at week 4. As a result, while the frequency
of influenza or common cold between weeks 4 ... Substances: Drugs, Chinese Herbal. ...

Evaluation of Echinacea for Treatment of the Common Cold -
JT Giles, CT Palat III, SH Chien, ZG Chang, DT … - Pharmacotherapy, 2000 - PPI
... one of the top three selling herbal medicines in the United States, 8 has been
evaluated in clinical trials for treatment and prevention of the common cold. ...

Treatment of the Common Cold with Unrefined Echinacea: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- … -
BP Barrett, RL Brown, K Locken, R Maberry, JA … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002 - annals.highwire.org
... Context: Echinacea is an herbal therapy that is widely used to treat the common
cold, but there is no consensus about its effectiveness. Contribution. ...

Treatment of the Common Cold with Echinacea: A Structured Review -
TJ Caruso, JM Gwaltney Jr - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2005 - UChicago Press
... Background. Echinacea is a herbal preparation that is frequently used to
treat the common cold. Spending on echinacea in the United ...

Echinacea purpurea Therapy for the Treatment of the Common Cold A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo- … -
SH Yale, K Liu - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004 - Am Med Assoc
... 7. Johnston BA. One-third of nation's adults use herbal medications [editorial].
Herbalgram. 1997;40:49. 8. Kirkpatrick GL. The common cold. Prim Care. ...

[CITATION] … echinacea preparation (EchinilinTM) for the treatment of the common cold: a randomized, double- … -
V Goel, R Lovlin, R Barton, MR Lyon, R Bauer, TDG … - Journal of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics, 2004 - Blackwell Synergy
... The common cold is a ubiquitous illness accounting for a substantial burden on health ...
Echinacea is one of the top-selling herbal products in Europe and North ...

Home-Based Therapies for the Common Cold Among European American and Ethnic Minority Families The … -
LM Pachter, T Sumner, A Fontan, M Sneed, BA … - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... that fit within the hot-cold theory of ... The most common response categories for African
American ... and nutritional supplements (vitamins and herbal teas) and ...

… quality of randomized controlled trials of homeopathy, herbal medicines and acupuncture -
K Linde, WB Jonas, D Melchart, S Willich - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - IEA
... for five previously published systematic reviews on homeopathy, herbal medicine
(Hypericum for depression, Echinacea for common cold), and acupuncture (for ...

[BOOK] The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the … -
JA Duke - 1997 - books.google.com
... discoveries in herbal remedies for common diseases and ... to highlight the herbs and
herbal remedies that I ... concocted by botanists in a cold climate, specifically ...

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Herbal cure for common cold?

Scientists in Germany, Austria and Canada are claiming that their combined work may have led to a natural “cure for the common cold”.
 
Calgary-based Factors R & D Technologies in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, as well as the Heinrich-Hein University in Düsseldorf, Germany and the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria have pooled their knowledge and resources to produce Echinilin - an Echinacea extract phytopharmaceutical.

In contrast to over-the-counter cold and flu treatments, the product is supposed to be a preventative treatment, which does not mask or suppress symptoms.

“When clinical trial participants were given Echinilin, we saw an immediate and sustained increase in natural killer cells which target virus infected cells and destroys them,” said Dr. Richard Barton, co-director of the human clinical studies. ”This indicates that their immune system had been stimulated to target and destroy the viruses. The end result was an immediate and marked reduction in both severity of symptoms and duration of the infection.”

Factors R & D Technologies claim they spent eight years in research and development at a cost of over $5-million dollars to produce this product.

Many researchers are still undecided about the ability of the herbal Echinacea to reduce symptoms of the common cold and help patients recover faster.

A study published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine (164:1237-1241), for example, showed that the herbal remedy had no effect on severity of symptoms and the time taken to recover from a cold compared to those given placebo.

The findings were based on a trial of 120 adults, who took 300 milligrams of an echinacea juice preparation daily at the first sign of a cold and supported the results of a study in children last year.

This trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that echinacea did not reduce the severity or duration of infections although it did appear to cut the number of respiratory tract infections in the children.

Echinacea is thought to stimulate the immune response and is widely sold as a cold remedy. However it is available in different forms, made from both the above-ground herb and/or root portions depending upon the species used. The product tested in both the new and JAMA study used the fresh-pressed juice of the above-ground part of the Echinacea plant.

The researchers from the US-based Marshfield Clinic concluded that "further studies using different preparations and dosages of E purpurea are necessary to validate previous claims.”

 
 
 
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