Echinacea DOES fight colds. Or does it?
A contradictory health study finds that echinacea does cut the chance of catching a cold by 58 percent. That's according to a new study published today in the British journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
But last year a major study funded by the National Institutes of Health published last year in the in New England Journal of Medicine found that echinacea doesn't work.
In other words, no one knows jack about jack, so just do what mom always says: bundle up, wash your hands all the time, and sneeze in your sleeve.