Jolie:

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I've been using echinacea for at least a decade and I rarely get a cold or the flu; but echinacea is only helpful if you know how much and when/when not to take it, inasmuch as it can have side effects if not used correctly.
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You're absolutely right about that.niceone.gif

You have to know when and WHEN NOT to take it!

I've been using echinacea for nearly 5 years every since it cured me of the flu after only 2 days.

But the problem is, I got so confident in echinacea that I let my guard down too often.
They say you should take it at the first sign of a cold, but if I get the sniffles I wait 3 or 4 days hoping they'll go away before I'm forced to by a new bottle of Echinacea.

It usually works right after I take it, but a few months ago I caught a wicked cold/cough and instead of taking my usual dose of 1 1000MG pill twice a day...I was wolfing down 3 1000MG pills 3 times a day!

But even after going through the entire bottle of 60 pills, 2 weeks later my cold was still going strong...and getting stronger!

Echinacea was my last hope before deciding to finally just go to the doctor and get a prescription, but I just dread taking any type of antibiotics so I decided to wait another week before going.

Then I read how a person could take too much echinacea and burn their immune system.

After a week off, I started taking my light dose of echinacea again and my cold/cough was gone the next day.