Echinacea and Swine Flu

As a follow up to my earlier post about alternative medicine and influenza, I did a little more probing among immunologist contacts of contacts.
There are several facts to consider if you’re thinking of taking echinacea to help protect you from swine flu, or indeed any form of influenza or colds.
Generally, taking these complementary therapies is [...]

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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.

If you're lucky, the following quote may be relevant in some way to the post above, but then again...

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
 - Thomas Crum

Alt Meds and Swine Flu

A physician friend asked me to look into the question of how to advise patients presenting with flu symptoms who had talked of taking alternative medicine supplements, such as echinacea. In the same breath he mentioned zinc supplements and selenium.
He wondered whether he should be advising his other patients to take one of these three [...]

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Post by David Bradley Science Writer. You can get in touch with David via email or check out his CV on the Sciencebase.com site.

If you're lucky, the following quote may be relevant in some way to the post above, but then again...

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
 - Jacques Benigne Bossuel