Top 15 Herbal Antibiotics
There has been great concern in recent times over antibiotic-resistant bacteria – and it’s hardly suprising: The use of antibiotics causes bacteria strains to evolve – and if you think about it, it seems like simple evolution of species at work. Let’s say the antibiotic wipes out most of the bacteria but not all. The ones that remain are those which have the strongest resistance – and these go on to multiply, creating a gradually stronger colony. Replicate this process several times and you have a bacteria that all of a sudden cannot be killed by the antibiotics – and you have a problem… MRSA and other “superbugs” are a very serious problem.
Did you know that hospitals in Australia use eucalyptus essential oil as a disinfectant owing to its efficacy against MRSA? Think about this for a second: Have you ever wondered why essential oils, which have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, are still able to function as antibiotics? Why is it that they have not lost their efficacy, whereas human-made antibiotics do so very quickly? Isn’t this incredibly curious?
We found a brilliant page about herbal antibiotics that not only lists 15 of the best antibiotic herbs, but also gives a very plausible explanation of this phenomenon – that makes total sense: An essential oil is made up of hundreds of different molecules in varying proportions – and it is likely that several of the molecular components have antibiotic action. In other words, it is far easier for bacteria to adapt to an isolated, single compound than it is to a whole plant extract.
This kind of makes me want to bang my fist on the table. Herbalism has been all-but abolished by mainstream medicine, and yet once properly explained, it clearly makes far more sense than the kind of medicine that is about isolating individual molecular components (and patenting them for a profit.) Humans are for the most part afraid of nature – and that’s a problem if you ask me.
Anyway, I will leave you with the excellent tutorial from Common Sense Home:http://www.commonsensehome.com/herbal-antibiotics
One last thing – they missed out Oregano – an amazing antibiotic herb which I use regularly.
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