Anti-Bacterial Properties of EO

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Hey Jen,

 

A very fine post .. a keeper fer'shur .. and I thank you. :-)

 

> You have hit on something that concerns me very much when we speak of

> certain EO's as " anti-bacterial " on newsgroups. It appears that YOU

> know, but most people don't, that bacteria are not just one generic

> germ and cannot be treated as one.

 

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> Bacteria are classified in several different ways:

 

> So then these different type of bacteria like to live in different

> places and cause different diseases and illnesses. A few examples are:

 

> Further, given that certain EOs are anti-bacterial, I think it is

> naive to think that using EOs as an alternative to AB therapy will

> somehow avoid the issue of bacterial resistance. Natural or not,

> without the information regarding what bacteria certain EOs are

> effective against - you run a very possible risk of creating the very

> situation we have with commerical AB's right now - resistance.

 

Granted .. creating intelligence (knowing) your enemy is critical to

formulating an effective plan to defeat that enemy. But sometimes, in

the absence of good intelligence we can't program the fuse on a Smart

Bomb .. so we use the Multiple Rocket Launch System to ensure adequate

coverage of a wider target area. ;-)

 

On creating resistance. This is a point I hope can be developed further

on the list .. by you or Martin or anyone who has some information in

this regard. Like you, my files are not all accessible now .. I lost

damn near half a Gigabyte of information a year or so ago and have only

a vague recall of a lot of the information.

 

One file discussed this point of resistance .. it was not information

from novels or web sites selling oils. One piece was a well documented

study on anti-bacterial properties of various EO .. which included an

explanation in lay persons terms on anti-biotics vs pro-biotics .. and

got into the evolution of man and his surroundings. It claimed that

those " few " bacteria that had become resistant to EO had done so by

becoming resistant to synthetics that shared similar (but not all)

chemical components of the EO .. meaning .. the as-close-to-natural

profile as one can get from a non-natural act such as distillation.

 

> To assume " " X " EO is effective against bacteria, " without knowing

> which ones, how, and at what dosage may cause us problems down the

> road.

 

But just as there are synthetic anti-biotics available from the medicos

that have a wide range of capabilities.. there are EO with similar wide

ranges. If we say that use of an EO (sniffing or otherwise) when we are

dealing with a bacteria we haven't positively identified can later cause

problems .. are we not saying that self medication and use of EO without

first getting cultures and such can be harmful? That is how I read the

above .. and I don't think that is what you were trying to tell folks.

 

On dosage .. we are talking ingestion or dermal application .. merely

sniffing doesn't come into the equation .. and merely sniffing some EO

is in MOST cases sufficient to kick a wide range of Big Bad Bug Butts.

 

> Martin, is their a chart or research available on what oils are

> effective against which type of bacteria?

 

I hope Martin or someone comes up with a good one. I had such two such

charts .. one I had compiled with the references for the claims .. one

was a translation from Turkish on the final results of some of the many

studies done in the microbiology labs at the Aromatic and Medicinal

Plant and Drug Research Center her in Turkey .. which has (due to the

politics inherent in most state run education systems) been converted to

a different mission. Both charts were in my files that have gone under

snakes.

 

> Thanks.

> JenB

 

Thank you ma'am .. a real fine post yours is and one that is a good

memory jogger even for folks who might have know a bit about it anyway.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com