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Echinacea purpurea better flu virus inhibitor than oseltamivir
If you have the flu, Echinacea purpurea can shorten the duration of infection as much as the pharmacological virus inhibitor oseltamivir. This is evident from a Czech study from 2015, in which 420 test subjects participated. The study also found that Echinacea purpurea had significantly fewer side effects than oseltamivir.
Study
Oseltamivir, developed by Roche and marketed as Tamiflu, is a controversial drug. It shortens the duration of flu by 17 hours, but 11 percent of users experience side effects such as nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.
The subjects in the other group were given Echinacea in the form of Echinaforce Hotdrink from A Vogel Bioforce for 10 days. [vogel.com] Vogel sponsored the study.
The main ingredient of Echinaforce Hotdrink is an alcohol-based extract of both the roots and above-ground parts of Echinacea purpurea, but it also contains an elderberry extract. Prominent bioactive compounds in Echinaforce are rutin and dodecatetraenoic acid isobutylamide.
On the first 3 days of the trial, the subjects were given a 5-milliliter supplement, diluted with hot water, 5 times a day. For the remaining, 7 days the subjects received a supplement 3 times a day.
Results
The fever dropped equally quickly in both groups. In that respect too, the supplement worked just as well as the pharmacological agent.
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