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...

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