Echinacea fails to treat or prevent colds in study - Alternative Medicine - MSNBC.com

Echinacea fails to treat or prevent colds in study - Alternative Medicine - MSNBC.com: "Being sick with a cold is nothing to sneeze at, but new research finds that taking the popular herbal remedy echinacea does nothing to treat or prevent it.
The federally funded study was what fans and foes of such substances say they have long needed � rigorous, scientific testing. It found that patients who took an echinacea plant extract fared no better than those who took a dummy treatment."