This was sent to me by MaryAnn Wallace -
AROMATHERAPY OILS KILL SUPERBUGS
– Tuesday, 21 December, 2004, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Essential oils could kill the deadly MRSA hospital ’superbug’, scientists
have claimed.
University of Manchester researchers found three of the oils, usually used
in aromatherapy, destroyed MRSA and E.coli bacteria in two minutes.
They suggest the oils could be blended into soaps and shampoos which could
be used in hospitals to stop the spread of the superbug. Hospital-acquired
infections, such as MRSA, kill an estimated 5,000 a year in the UK.
The Manchester study was triggered when complementary medicine specialists
at Christie Cancer Hospital asked university researchers to test essential oils.
Dr Peter Warn, who carried out the research, said: “When I tested the oils
in the lab, absolutely nothing grew. Rather than stimulating bacteria and
fungi, the oils killed them off.”
The essential oils tested were Patchouli, tea tree, geranium, lavender
essential oils and Citricidal trade mark (grapefruit seed extract).
The team tested 40 essential oils against 10 of the most infectious agents
found in hospitals, including MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus
aureus).
Two of the oils were found to kill MRSA and E.coli almost instantly, while a
third was found to act over a longer period of time.
Dr Warn says the essential oils could be used to create much more pleasant
inhalation therapies – which he said were likely to have a much higher
success rate than the current treatment, which is only effective in around 50% of cases.”
Dr Warn said: “We believe that our discovery could revolutionise the fight
to combat MRSA and other superbugs.”
But he said the team now needed around £30,000 in order to continue its research.
Jacqui Stringer, clinical leader of complementary therapies at Christie
Hospital in Manchester, instigated the oils research.
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She said: “Our research shows a very practical application which could be of
enormous benefit to the NHS and its patients.
“The reason essential oils are so effective is because they are made up of a
complex mixture of chemical compounds which the MRSA and other superbug
bacteria finds difficult to resist.”
The Department of Health evaluates products which are claimed to prevent or
treat HAIs before it permits them to be used across the NHS.
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I have no doubt that this could be true. Here is the problem: there is more money in treatment, than there is in a “cure”/
Fact: there is no cure for cancer because cancer is man made…we eat wrong! sugar, caffeine, fast food, grease and meat. All filled with chemicals that no one can pronounce. Our bodies are acid, and cancer loves acid!!! remove the acid, and the cancer cells starve to death, and are disassembled and reused.
Most of our major health issues can be resolved by eating the right foods to make our bodies more alkaline. Not easy, certainly not convenient, but it is the ONLY answer. We foolishly give up our saving and our houses for treatments that we don’t need. All we had to give up was bad food. If you cant pronounce the ingredients, do not put it in your body. Google “acid and alkaline foods” really.
The answer to better health is just under your nose.
By: john mellows on November 25, 2007
at 6:50 am