Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics

Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by click170 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @06:38PM (#9006923)

It's interesting to hear about the different impacts of essential oils, though when you consider manuka honey also has healing properties as well, it stands to reason that other natural plant extracts could have similar properties.

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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by hcarvalhoalves on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:33PM (#9007120)

> it stands to reason that other natural plant extracts could have similar properties.

That's as old as time.

- Lemon skin for stomach flu (Salmonella)

- Garlic for ulcer (H. pylori).

- Onion for food intoxication (E. coli and S. aureus).

- Eucalyptus for general respiratory tract infections.

- Tamarind and cranberry for bladder infection.

- Coconut oil for intestinal parasites.

- Honey (any, not just manuka) as a general anti bactericide.

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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:54AM (#9007876)

And more recently we've learned things like:

Cinnamon for stomach ulcer due to inhibitory affect on H. pylori

Cinnamon for blood sugar regulation

Cinnamon for Parkinson's disease

And that's just one of the 214 herbs I've studied intensively.

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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by humanrobot on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:04PM (#9007030)

source for manuka honey healing? what does it heal?

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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by akamaka on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:40PM (#9007144)

There are several mechanisms at play in honey: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/

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