Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold

Planta Medica

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 633-637

  Woelkart, Karin ^a   Linde, Klaus ^b   Bauer, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asteraceae; Common cold; Echinacea; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFLORA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ECHINACEA; ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; META ANALYSIS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHINOVIRUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TABLET;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMON COLD; ECHINACEA; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ASTERACEAE; ECHINACEA (ASTERACEAE);

EID: 45349106060     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-993766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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