Echinacea for Treating the Common Cold
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Echinacea for treating the common cold: a randomized trial.
BACKGROUND Echinacea is widely used to treat the common cold. OBJECTIVE To assess the potential benefits of echinacea as a treatment of common cold. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT00065715) SETTING Dane County, Wisconsin. PATIENTS 719 patients, aged 12 to 80 years, with new-onset common cold. INTERVENTION Patients were assigned to 1 of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Internal Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-4819
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-12-201012210-00003