Echinacea and Children's Colds
Thursday December 4, 2003
Echinacea may work when treating adult cold symptoms, but according to a University of Washington study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it does not appear to be effective in treating children's colds. This is significant news considering the average child can suffer six to eight colds per year and that one in five may be treated with alternative therapies such as this.
Comments
It may be ineffective for children according to the AMA, but it is possible that the cases in which Echinacea has shown some degree of success, have never been involved in a controlled study, or published (as with many herbal remedies/alternative treatments.)
My doctor tried convincing me of a similar presumption but fortunately I have already been using Echinacea for years and just walked out of his office with even less faith than I had before in doctors and these medical associations which are 9 out of 10 heavily influenced and funded by the pharmaceutical companies anyway.
Me and my children from 7 years of age to 13 have been using Echinacea for 2 years now. In the past, between the 3 of us we have spent most every Winter with one of us being sick at one time or another if not all of us and usually all the way up until Spring time.
Since day one of taking Echinacea we have rarely been sick and I would say at least 1/3 of what were before we started using it. It is one of the best things that has ever come into our lives. Even when people are sick all around us, I just start taking Echinacea and giving it to my children and almost every time the flues and cold just pass right on by us. If you do by chance get sick it will still almost always knock the cold or flu out way faster than what the body does normally with out taking it.
What kind of testing could these people possibly doing here ????????
I guess if you can’t paten it and make millions off from it, just tell them it doesn’t work!