Echinacea anyone?

[mrbigstuff]

I recall a study not too long ago with the result that echinacea cannot do anything to lessen symptoms once you have a cold, but may help if you take it regularly. I know that Germans are big on it, as that is where my friends go the idea about 20 years back. FWIW, some other study found that zinc actually may make a difference in lessening symptoms from a virus. I'm not digging up the citations at the moment, however, so YMMV.