Herb Of The Week - Oregano - Staphylococcus

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This study was sponsored by a company who sells diluted oregano oil, so

some may consider that a conflict of interest, and it stinks that the

tests were done on mice, but we're not allowed to do testing on human

vermin like child rapists ... so here ya go ...

 

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Oregano oil may protect against drug-resistant Staphylococcus

 

 

 

 

Oil from the common herb oregano may be an effective treatment against

dangerous and sometimes drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria, a

Georgetown researcher has found. Two studies have shown that oregano oil

- and, in particular, carvacrol, one of oregano's chemical components -

appears to reduce infection as effectively as traditional antibiotics.

These findings were presented at the American College of Nutrition's

annual meeting, October 6 and 7, in Orlando, Florida, USA.

 

Harry G. Preuss, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and his

research team, tested oregano oil on staphylococcus bacteria - which is

responsible for a variety of severe infections and is becoming

increasingly resistant to many antibiotics. They combined oregano oil

with the bacteria in a test tube, and compared oregano oil's effects to

those of streptomycin, penicillin and vancomycin. At relatively low

doses, the oregano oil was found to inhibit the growth of staphylococcus

bacteria in the test tubes as effectively as the standard antibiotics

did.

 

Another aspect of the study examined the efficacy of oregano oil and

carvacrol, which is believed to be the major antibacterial component of

oregano, in 18 mice infected with the staphylococcus bacteria.

 

Six of the mice received oregano oil for 30 days, and 50% of this group

survived the 30-day treatment. Six received the carvacrol in olive oil,

not oregano oil, and none survived longer than 21 days. Six mice

received olive oil alone with no active agents (the control group) and

all died within three days. A repeat study corroborated these findings,

which demonstrates that there are components of oregano oil other than

carvacrol that have antibiotic properties.

 

'While this investigation was performed only in test tubes and on a

small number of mice, the preliminary results are promising and warrant

further study,' Preuss said. 'The ability of oils from various spices to

kill infectious organisms has been recognized since antiquity. Natural

oils may turn out to be valuable adjuvants or even replacements for many

anti-germicidals under a variety of conditions.'

 

This study was sponsored by Waukegan, Ill-based North American Herb and

Spice.

 

Source: Georgetown University Medical Center

 

 

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