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$2.2 Million herbal cold remedy study underway at U.Va.

dardized, and therefore cannot get consistent results."

Turner and his research team plan to recruit approximately 450 subjects for the study. One group of subjects was enrolled in May, and the next group will be enrolled in October. The volunteers are infected with a cold virus. One group is given echinacea before being infected with the cold, and another group receives it after being infected. Some subjects in each group receive a look-alike placebo, or inactive medication, instead of the echinacea so they can be compared with the group receiving the herbal supplement.

"One of the things we want to find out is whether echinacea has an effect on viral replication or on the body's inflammatory response," Turner said. "It may involve a combination of several factors."

Echinacea is indigenous to the American Midwest, and was first used for medicinal purposes by Native Americans, according to ethnobotanists. White settlers adopted it as a folk remedy, and in the twentieth century, it became popular in Europe. Use of echinacea has revived during the past decade's herbal supplement production and sales boom in the United States.
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Contact: Cathy Wolz
434-924-5679
University of Virginia Health System
27-Aug-2002


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