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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I find several things very interesting about this study.  First of all,
NCCAM is still recruiting patients to participate in the study with a
projected end date of December 2006.  Second, the timing.

The feds started up NCCAM when they first started seriously looking at
regulating/controlleding herbals.

Federal agencies have agendas and putting out the "results" of a study that
isn't finished would be right on par with an agenda!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:41 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Echinacea


> Echinacea is popular among the Ozarks immigrants with whom I cavort.
Steven
> Foster, an herbalist author and friend, has written a book about its
> efficacy for a wide range of health issues. Now here is a scientific study
> that says, at least for colds, echinacea is pure folk lore:
>
> Study Says Echinacea Has No Effect on Colds
>
> By GINA KOLATA
> Published: July 28, 2005
>