Designed specifically for bacterial
infections, antibiotics are medical doctors’ favorite tools against most issues
that walk into their offices. But oregano oil benefits are proving to be
superior to some antibiotics, without the harmful side effects.
Unfortunately, the antibiotics prescribed by most medical doctors today have horrendous
side effects including: causing antibiotic resistance, destroying good bacteria
(probiotics), reducing vitamin absorption and damaging the digestive lining
causing leaky gut.
Essentially, taking this
broad-spectrum approach is similar to dropping a nuclear bomb on a city instead
of sending a special ops sniper team to take out the few enemy targets.
The good news is there is an
incredible natural alternative to prescription antibiotics and that is oregano
oil (also called oil of oregano). Oil of oregano contains two
powerful compounds of carvacrol and thymol that have powerful anti-bacterial
and anti-fungal properties.
The Problem with Prescription
Antibiotics
Last August, the Wall Street
Journal printed a fantastic article highlighting this horrible dis-service
to trusting American patients:
Overuse of antibiotics, and
prescribing broad-spectrum drugs when they aren’t needed, can cause a range of
problems. It can make the drugs less effective against the bacteria they are
intended to treat by fostering the growth of antibiotic-resistant infections.
And it can wipe out the body’s good bacteria (probiotics), which help digest
food, produce vitamins and protect from infections, among other functions.
In a July study published in the
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, researchers from the University of Utah
and the CDC found that 60% of the time physicians prescribe antibiotics,
they choose broad-spectrum ones….
A similar study of children,
published in the journal Pediatrics in 2011, found that when antibiotics were
prescribed they were broad-spectrum 50% of the time, mainly for respiratory
conditions…
Both studies also found that about
25% of the time antibiotics were being prescribed for conditions in which they
have no use, such as viral infections.
Oregano
Oil Benefits Are Unstoppable!
A member of the mint family (Labiatae)
oil of oregano is not what you put on your pizza sauce. Found in the
Mediterranean, medicinal grade oregano is distilled to extract the essential oil and to preserve its healing compounds.
Taking over 1000 pounds of wild
oregano to produce just 1 pound of oregano oil, it has been precious commodity
for over 2,500 years in folk medicine expanding the globe.
The predominant healing compound,
carvacrol, is arguably the most important component explaining why oil of
oregano is so potent.
Over 800 studies reference carvacrol
in PubMed, the world’s #1 database for scientific evidence-based literature,
which emphasizes that research is quite supportive of its healing capacity. To
give you a sense of what I mean, carvacrol has been proven to reverse or
reduce:
- Bacterial infections
- Fungal infections
- Parasites
- Viruses
- Inflammation
- Candida
- Allergies
- Tumors
Antibiotic
Power
This past December, Journal of
Medicinal Food published a study that evaluated the antibacterial activity
of oregano oil against 5 different types of bad bacteria. After evaluating the
anti-bacterial characteristics of oil of oregano it showed significant
anti-bacterial properties against all 5 species of harmful bacteria.
Interestingly, the highest activity
was observed against E. Coli, which suggests that oregano oil should be
routinely used to promote gastrointestinal health and to prevent deadly food
poisoning.
Two years prior, researchers from
Pakistan published similar results in the journal Revista Brasileira de
Farmacognosia in addition to proving oregano oil’s ability to kill
cancer cells of various types!
Oregano
Oil is More Than Just An Antibiotic
In a nutshell: Dozens of other
studies confirm the fact that oregano oil can be used instead of harmful
antibiotics for a number of health concerns. The rest of the research cited is
supporting the fact that oregano is more than just an antibiotic. It’s the ultimate
natural antibiotic!
For instance, late last year, a
study out of European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences
helped put the predominant phenol in oil of oregano in a league of its own.
Shown to protect against methotrexate toxicity in rats, carvacrol was shown to
prevent side effects to some of the world’s most dangerous drugs!
Methotrexate (MTX) is a drug
commonly used to treat a wide array of issues from cancer to rheumatoid
arthritis. Well-known to have dangerous side effects, researchers from Turkey
evaluated oil of oregano’s ability to keep these factors at bay because
antioxidants and anti-inflammatory drugs have proven to be ineffective at
providing full protection against MTX.
By evaluating various markers in the
sciatic nerve in mice, it was observed for the first time that carvacrol
decreased the pro-inflammatory response in mice being treated by MTX. Being a
relatively new concept in the research world, I expect to see more studies
testing these results because “groundbreaking” doesn’t even begin to describe
the significance of this study.
In a similar way, researchers from
the Netherlands have even shown that oregano oil can also “prevent bacterial
overgrowth and colonization in the large intestine during oral iron therapy.”
Used to treat iron deficiency anemia, oral iron therapy is well-known to cause
a series of gastrointestinal issues like nausea, diarrhea, constipation,
heartburn and vomiting.
It should be noted that these two
studies give hope to people who long to manage the horrible suffering
that accompanies drugs and medical interventions. For someone on chemo or
taking iron therapy, these “little” things mean all the world.
Oil
of Oregano Uses and Warnings
You may be asking, what limits does
oil of oregano have? At this point, it’s not perfectly clear. One thing that is
certain, however, is because of its insurmountable potency, medicinal use
should only be administered under the guidance of a natural health expert.
I personally take oregano oil
internally for a maximum of two weeks in most cases because it’s so
powerful. Also, when taking internally, it should be diluted with water
or mixed with coconut oil. The dried herb oregano is typically fine for
pregnant women but when using oil of oregano pregnant women should use caution
and only use if instructed by physician to do so.
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