Review paper<br>Use of diet supplements, synthetic drugs  and herbal remedies with immunotropic activity during pregnancy. I. <i>Echinacea</i>

Ewa Skopińska-Różewska; Krzysztof Makuch

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Central European Journal of Immunology

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Review paper
Use of diet supplements, synthetic drugs and herbal remedies with immunotropic activity during pregnancy. I. Echinacea

Ewa Skopińska-Różewska

,

Krzysztof Makuch

(Centr Eur J Immunol 2010; 35 (3): 183-185)

Online publish date: 2010/10/05

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This mini-review summarizes some experimental and clinical data about safety of Echinacea treatment during pregnancy. There is evidence from human studies that Echinacea is not teratogenic. However, in pregnant mice Echinacea purpurea reduced the number of viable fetuses, interfered with embrional angiogenesis and negatively influenced maternal lympho- and hemopoiesis.

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Review paperUse of diet supplements, synthetic drugs and herbal remedies with immunotropic activity during pregnancy. I. Echinacea

Ewa Skopińska-Różewska , Krzysztof Makuch

Echinacea, pregnancy, mice, human studies

Review paper
Use of diet supplements, synthetic drugs and herbal remedies with immunotropic activity during pregnancy. I. Echinacea

Ewa Skopińska-Różewska

,

Krzysztof Makuch