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Oregano Oil Benets Superior to Prescription

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Oregano Oil Benets

Designed specically for bacterial infections, antibiotics are medical doctors
favorite tools against most issues that walk into their oces. But oregano oil
benets are proving to be superior to some antibiotics, without the harmful side
effects.

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FREE Guide: Oregano Oil Benefits Superior To Prescription Antibiotics

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.

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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

arent 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 bodys 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 6 0 % o f t h e
t i m e 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 Benets Are Unstoppable!

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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 worlds #1 database for
scientic 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
Inammation
Candida
Allergies
Tumors

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Antibiotic Power
This past December, Journal of Medicinal Food published a study that evaluated
the antibacterial activity of oregano oil against 5 different types bad bacteria. After
evaluating the anti-bacterial characteristics of oil of oregano it showed signicant
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.

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Two years prior, researchers from Pakistan published similar results in the journal
Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia in addition to proving oregano oils ability to
kill cancer cells of various types!

Oregano Oil is More Than Just An Antibiotic

In a nutshell: Dozens of other studies conrm 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. Its 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 worlds 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 oreganos ability to keep these factors at
bay because antioxidants and anti-inammatory 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
rst time that carvacrol decreased the pro-inammatory 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 doesnt even
begin to describe the signicance 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 deciency 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

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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, its 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 its so powerful. Also, when taking internally, it should be diluted with
water or mixed with coconut oil. The dried herb oregano is typically ne for
pregnant women but when using oil of oregano pregnant women should use
caution and only use if instructed by physician to do so.

H a v e y o u e v e r u s e d O i l o f O r e g a n o? D i d y o u s e e r e s u l t s? W h a t o t h e r n a t u r a l
antibiotics have you used?

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Celik F, et al. Neuroprotective effects of carvacrol and pomegranate against methotrexate-induced toxicity in rats. Eur Rev
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