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[nene]

Hi everyone,

We're looking for echinacea , keep getting colds left and right, we have a bottle to show people if necessary, the question is where can we find it? A pharmacy? A big department store? We live in Busan if that helps.

Thanks

[pet lover]

Try www.vitaminlife.com

[Rteacher]

If there are any vegetarian restaurants in Busan run by the Seventh Day Adventists they are likely to carry herbal remedies. I know that their "Country Life" restaurant in Sinsa has echinachea, golden seal, etc...

[krats1976]

Ahhhhh Echinacea! Something else to add to my "What I need to buy at home next month" list.

Coulda used some this weekend.

[tzechuk]

There is a herbalife here in Daejeon, run by my husband's friend's wife.

[beekeeper3000]

hate to burst your bubble -- oh, wait, no i don't.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/28/MNGNTDURFL1.DTL

seriously you should be taking a multivitamin and maybe even some extra vitamin c. take lots of vitamin c if you are a smoker. and despite all the rumors going around about bird flu, chicken soup will kick any cold's a$$ post haste.

peace

[nene]

yeah, i was actually living in SF and read that article when it was printed. two things though,

1) "one of the study's co-authors, Dr. Rudolph Bauer, a professor of pharmaceutical biology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, said the study should be repeated with other echinacea species and with other preparations and with different doses...He himself takes echinacea and will continue to take it, he says. "

And 2) "Dr. Wallace Sampson, an emeritus clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine (where i was working when i was in SF), questioned why the government was wasting tax dollars on funding alternative medicine studies, some of which have turned out to be nothing but snake oil. 'Research into implausible remedies rarely produces useful information,' wrote Sampson..."

can you imagine designing studies in that kind of intellectual environment? what if the study had said echinacea is useful? they would've had all these prof's and rep's from pharmaceutical companies telling them they're idiots!

oh, and i do take a multivitamin - in korea anyway - in spite of the studies that have shown them to be associated with increased risk of abdominal cancers. as for chicken soup, i would never trade another animal's life to reduce the duration of my illness, but that's a personal decision. anyone know if the benefits of chicken soup come from the chicken itself or something else?

[peppermint]

I've been vegetarian for years and I make very spicy red lentil soup when I'm sick, seems to make me feel better. Echinacea does seem to work for me, but then so does getting extra sleep when I feel something coming on.

[pet lover]

Even before I went vegan, I always believed it was the amount of garlic used in the chicken soup that was good for you, not the chicken itself. Now, it's easy to cut the middleman and just eat a lot of garlic. Cheaper, lasts longer in the fridge, garlic is not raised in inhumane conditions or tortured and it does not carry any kind of bird flu.

[ddeubel]

Garlic! One of the best things about Korea.......and don't have to apologize if one reeks of it (I do). Also great thing about Korea, the dearth of Draculas....

Keeps one healthy, stress free night life.

DD

[pet lover]

Yes, but if one teaches kindergarten, it is best if one disguises one's garlic breath before class as kindergarten students are apt to quickly notice and draw very loud, repeated attention to it.

[RACETRAITOR]

Echinacea works and I even had a doctor recommend it. It really, really alleviates the symptoms of several IBDs.