Echinacea purpurea

[Sunflower00]

Hi all,

I have severe iron deficiency and my doctor gave me iron pills plus another “support” pill to help the iron absorption. I read that people with MS shouldn’t take echinacea purpurea and the support pills have this in them. I’ve stopped taking them and take only the iron pills but was wondering if anyone knows if this concentration of echinacea purpurea would actually be harmful.

[GCCK]

Being a herbal remedy, echinacea hasn’t had the same clinical trials as pharmaceutical drugs. Hence there is nothing official about echinacea but as you say, guidance is for people with MS and other conditions that attack the brain & nervous system is that until more is known, it is advisable to avoid echinacea, an immune system boosting substance.