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Recently a well executed syst. literature review has been published in Huisarts & Wetenschap, the Dutch Journal of the dutch college of general practitioners. Unfortunately it is in Dutch (though often it includes a abstract in english). As we haven't been succesful to get the journal accepted for indexing in Medline - we tried this four times over a period of more than 10 years - it isn't useful for us to publish original articles in english or with extensive english summaries. If you wish I could it look up for you. Possibly you find Dutch rather easy to read, and rather comparable to German. At least you could extract the references. No luck with some Cochrane Library? A quick search with ascorbic acid / common cold / 1985-1999 / review (search strategy included) resulted in two possibly useful articles: see attached file I hope this is helpful. Nico v Duijn Dr. N.P. van Duijn, gen. pract. - epidemiologist Departm. General Practice Division Public Health Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam the Netherlands Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:56:59 +0100 > Subject: ascorbic acid and influenza > From: "Heimo Wallenko" <[log in to unmask]> > To: "Evidence-based Health" <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-to: "Heimo Wallenko" <[log in to unmask]> > Dear members of list, > > among general practitioners it is very common to use high doses of ascorbic > acid (up to 5 gram daily) in patients with influenza vera or measles. I > could not find any evidence for this treatment, neither for high doses nor > low. > Is there any, or - as I think - is this treatment common because patients > wish to be treated this way? > > Hope you don't mind about this > > Heimo > > Dr. Heimo Wallenko > General Practitioner > Seenstrasse 53, A-9081 Reifnitz > Tel. 0043 4273 3565 > email: [log in to unmask] > > > > >