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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by benbreen on Thursday February 05, 2015 @06:57PM (#9007009)
Naturally this is just a single experiment, but it does offer some statistically significant results for combinations of antibiotics and lavender, peppermint, and cinnamon oils:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537749

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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by thanatosmin on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:35PM (#9007128)
Full text here: http://goo.gl/i6ooUC

The lowest oil concentration they see synergy is 0.078% v/v. Assuming that's roughly the same as w/w%, that's 53 grams of oil that would have to be distributed throughout the body of a 68 kg person.

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