Swanson Echinacea 400 Milligrams 100 Capsules
$9.99
Support your body’s defenses with time-honored Echinacea from Swanson! Also known as the purple coneflower, this powerful plant is packed with antioxidants! You may recognize its spiky head and purple petals in area gardens, but it’s been used for hundreds of years as an immune-supporting herb, thanks to its polysaccharides, alkamides and flavonoids. Each capsule contains 400 mg of echinacea.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 3 x 3 x 5 inches; 3.2 ounces
Item model number : P31171
Date First Available : October 25, 2004
Manufacturer : Swanson Premium
ASIN : B00068U25O
Country of Origin : USA
Boosts antioxidant activity
Promotes immune health
Supports the body’s natural defenses
Per GMP guidelines set forth by the FDA, most products are formulated for 24 months from the date of manufacture. Liquids and probiotics are formulated for 12 months.
stag069 –
Delivered product as asked and promptly!
Delivered product as asked and promptly!
J –
Buy it!!
Greg to boost your immune system!! A absolutely must in cold seasons or when you’re traveling ecThis was a much in my home for the pandemicI am not making any claims but I also use this for my dogs, I foster and I take in dogs from shelters ec and right before I pick up the foster I give this to my dogs and then to my foster and I love it.It’s a very inexpensive immune boosterI don’t take it every day as directedI will drink it 3 or 4 days then drop for 2 then resume for another 2 days and stop for a few weeks. This is a way to trick your immune system. I shipped this to my parents and close friends and family when the pandemic hit closer to homeCan’t make claims on that end but I love it so much it was worth a try.
Stephanie Thompson –
Dr Oz, and Thompson family approved 🙂
ever since the Dr Oz suggested Echinacea for colds, my whole family started taking it. (one a day for 5 days at the onset of a cold to shorten the duration). we all swear by it! and he also suggested this particular brand. we’ve had a bottle in our cupboard ever since! thank you Dr Oz, and thanks to you too Swanson! 🙂
C. Nelson –
Best price that I’ve seen! Fast shipping as well.
There may be better deals out there, but I haven’t found them. My wife and I take Echinacea sporadically (if you take it constantly it blunts its immune boosting effect), and since starting this regimen we are sick far less often, and the duration of colds has been shortened by several days vs. “pre-echinacea”.These also don’t have the awful smell that some echinacea products have.
Poodle mom –
Perfect and high quality
The quality is better than buying in my local super store
audrey a. –
Perfect
Perfect
Ehab Shalaby –
It works!
My son had symptoms of cold just started, I added the content of the capsule and made tea out of it, he drank it several times and the cold symptoms were aborted.. good product !
PerpetualLearner –
Studies show echinacea is not effective for treating colds…
I took echinacea religiously whenever I had a cold, but I recently read several studies stating that it doesn’t actually work, so I stopped buying it. Here is one of them:Ann Intern Med. 2010 Dec 21;153(12):769-77.Echinacea for treating the common cold: a randomized trial.Barrett B, Brown R, Rakel D, Mundt M, Bone K, Barlow S, Ewers T.SourceDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, USA.AbstractBACKGROUND: Echinacea is widely used to treat the common cold.OBJECTIVE: To assess the potential benefits of echinacea as a treatment of common cold.DESIGN: Randomized, controlled trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT00065715)SETTING: Dane County, Wisconsin.PATIENTS: 719 patients, aged 12 to 80 years, with new-onset common cold.INTERVENTION: Patients were assigned to 1 of 4 parallel groups: no pills, placebo pills (blinded), echinacea pills (blinded), or echinacea pills (unblinded, open-label). Echinacea groups received the equivalent of 10.2 g of dried echinacea root during the first 24 hours and 5.1 g during each of the next 4 days. Indistinguishable placebo tablets contained only inert ingredients.MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was the area under the curve for global severity, with severity assessed twice daily by self-report using the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, short version. Secondary outcomes included interleukin-8 levels and neutrophil counts from nasal wash, assessed at intake and 2 days later.RESULTS: Of the 719 patients enrolled, 713 completed the protocol. Mean age was 33.7 years, 64% were female, and 88% were white. Mean global severity was 236 and 258 for the blinded and unblinded echinacea groups, respectively; 264 for the blinded placebo group; and 286 for the no-pill group. A comparison of the 2 blinded groups showed a 28-point trend (95% CI, -69 to 13 points) toward benefit for echinacea (P = 0.089). Mean illness duration in the blinded and unblinded echinacea groups was 6.34 and 6.76 days, respectively, compared with 6.87 days in the blinded placebo group and 7.03 days in the no-pill group. A comparison of the blinded groups showed a nonsignificant 0.53-day (CI, -1.25 to 0.19 days) benefit (P = 0.075). Median change in interleukin-8 levels and neutrophil counts were also not statistically significant (30 ng/L and 1 cell/high-power field [hpf] in the no-pill group, 39 ng/L and 1 cell/hpf in the blinded placebo group, 58 ng/L and 2 cells/hpf in the blinded echinacea group, and 70 ng/L and 1 cell/hpf in the open-label echinacea group).LIMITATION: Higher-than-expected variability limited power to detect small benefits.CONCLUSION: Illness duration and severity were not statistically significant with echinacea compared with placebo. These results do not support the ability of this dose of the echinacea formulation to substantively change the course of the common cold.PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.