MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'echinacea'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4626978&cid=t_127280_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FzA9nzpUNRP4%2F By now you know the tell-tale signs that you’re getting a cold. First you wake up with a scratchy throat that looks like will be gone by the end of the day with a few “ahems” and glasses of water. But as night draws nearer, you admit to yourself that this is the just the beginning of a week of sniffling, sneezing, hacking, coughing, and wheezing. At best it will be a snotty inconvenience, but at worst, you’ll be laying in bed, dizzy with a fever, deliriously fluctuating between hot and cold. It’s not March Madness, it’s March Sadness! Cold and flu season is depressing. That was me last week, waking up with a throat so sore and red, it felt as if it had been scrubbed with a Brillo pad. I decided to use this opportunity to enact a long-desired experiment I’d been planning. Inst... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4626978 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:44:05 +0100 4626978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489673&cid=t_127280_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ftreating-the-common-cold%2F2011.02.17 For the last week I have had a cold. I usually get one each winter. I have two kids in school and they bring home a lot of viruses. I also work in a hospital, which tends (for some reason) to have lots of sick people. Although this year I think I caught my cold while traveling.  I’m almost over it now, but it’s certainly a miserable interlude to my normal routine. One thing we can say for certain about the common cold — it’s common. It is therefore no surprise that there are lots of cold remedies, folk remedies, pharmaceuticals, and “alternative” treatments. Finding a “cure for the common cold” has also become a journalistic cliche — reporters will jump on any chance to claim that some new research may one day lead to a cure for the common cold. Just about any re... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489673 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:00:17 +0100 4489673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302123&cid=t_127280_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fechinacea-for-colds-does-it-really-work%2F2010.12.31 This study is unlikely to change minds about whether to take this remedy. Have you tried echinacea as a cold remedy? Has it worked? How do research findings, pro and con, affect your opinion of so-called alternative medicines? Many of the echinacea studies, especially early on, were sponsored by companies making or selling the product. This study was supported by a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. - Peter Wehrwein, Editor, Harvard Health Letter *This blog post was originally published at Harvard Health Blog* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302123 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:00:12 +0100 4302123 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281455&cid=t_127280_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FnANS4ZTMcmU%2F Trying to cure your pre-Christmas cold with all-natural Echinacea? A new study suggests that the so-called wonder herb, that’s been purported to prevent colds, may not be a miracle worker after all. It seems the herb, which is a wild flower found in the Midwestern plains, doesn’t have much impact on the duration or strength of colds. The study followed more than 700 cold sufferers, and found that people who took Echinacea saw around a 10% reduction in the duration of their cold. That ends up being about seven to ten fewer hours, which is not, according to lead researcher Bruce Barrett, considered a medically significant decrease. But Barrett advised that people who’ve experienced Echinacea’s healing properties should continue taking it, since the study isn’t absolutel... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281455 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:14:53 +0100 4281455 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1223825&cid=t_127280_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fthe-cold-and-flu-season-with-multiple-sclerosis%2F In the cold, wet, gray (and bloody short!) days of February, we notice people sniffling, snuffling and sneezing and wheezing all around us. The last thing we want is to succumb to another person’s bug but, alas, there isn’t much we can do. We are in the heart of cold and flu season in my neck of the woods, and everyone seems to be either coming down with, just getting over or in the midst of suffering some viral thing or another. It’s like walking into a germ fog anytime you go out in public. I used to have a failsafe for this time of year. I used a tincture of echinacea and goldenseal, which a friend would brew up every year from her organic gardens. A few drops of this stuff at the first sign of a cold and I was good to go. Now, of course, I’m not really into the idea of boosting... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1223825 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:40:59 +0100 1223825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=747150&cid=t_127280_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F20%2Fasian-herb-aids-in-blood-sugar-control%2F Filed under: Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, ResearchI've dabbled with herbal remedies over the years -- astragalus for good health, arnica for muscle soreness, echinacea for immune support, I even sent away for a bag of some wild grown herbal tea leaf when I was trying to get pregnant with our second child. That stuff was disgusting to drink, but I immediately noticed it whisked away some hormonal imbalances I experienced after the birth of our first child. A naturopathy novice, I haven't read any herbal medicine books nor met with a naturopathic doctor. But even my guarded respect for allopathy (Western medicine) cannot prevent herbal medicine from speaking to my soul. Whenever I read good news about an herb, I am downright enthused. A new study suggests the herb Salacia oblonga may help... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=747150 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 747150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=694187&cid=t_127280_87_f&fid=34882&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbreathspakids.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fechinacea-and-selenium-lack-efficacy.html Echinacea promoted as cold preventer and treatment. Stories about the new Lancet review of echinacea are abundant in the general media; e.g., the Daily Mail trumpets that Scientists confirm echinacea halves the risk of catching winter sniffles. It is a little dispiriting that the Daily Mail coverage is more informative than the BBC's; the former is explicit that this isn't a new study but a review of previous studies.A review shows that taking supplements of the plant, also known as purple coneflower, can cut the chances of catching a cold by more than half. When used as a treatment it reduces the length of a cold by one and a-half days on average... The review, which combines the results of 14 previous studies, should finally give the seal of approval to the remedy.I have to say that I th... Breath Spa for Kids blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=694187 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:22:00 +0100 694187