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[Clinical application of extracts of Echinacea purpurea or Echinacea pallida. Critical evaluation of controlled clinical studies]

Dorsch W.

Kinderarzt, Vorstandsmitglied der Fachgesellschaft für Allergologie und Immunologie, Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Kuratoriums der Fachgesellschaft für Phytotherapie, Müchen.

The phytotherapy should be understood as being integrated into the rational pharmacotherapy. The modern phytotherapy tries hard to proof effects with pharmacological and clinical studies. The task force E of the federal bureau of health of Germany has made a statement regarding this problem. This article reviews only controlled clinical trials about the application of extracts of echinacea purpura or echinacea pallida.