Echinacea is safe to use in pregnancy.
Gallo, Michael, et al. Pregnancy outcome following gestational exposure to echinacea. Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 160, November 13, 2000, pp. 3141-43
It is important for anyone using echinacea to know that this herb stimulates your body's immune system to fight off viruses and bacteria. This means that you need to take it before you have a full-blown cold or it will not work.
The symptoms that we commonly associate with having a cold or flu-- sneezing, coughing, phlegm, fever, chills and aches -- are all caused by your immune system fighting off the virus or bacteria and not by the virus or bacteria themselves.
So once you are feeling all these symptoms, it's too late for echinacea. Catch it early with echinacea or not at all.
TC
Echinacea is safe to use in pregnancy.
Gallo, Michael, et al. Pregnancy outcome following gestational exposure to echinacea. Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 160, November 13, 2000, pp. 3141-43
It is important for anyone using echinacea to know that this herb stimulates your body's immune system to fight off viruses and bacteria. This means that you need to take it before you have a full-blown cold or it will not work.
The symptoms that we commonly associate with having a cold or flu-- sneezing, coughing, phlegm, fever, chills and aches -- are all caused by your immune system fighting off the virus or bacteria and not by the virus or bacteria themselves.
So once you are feeling all these symptoms, it's too late for echinacea. Catch it early with echinacea or not at all.
TC