This bold statement seems even bolder today than in 1985 because of the intense lobbying, advertising, regulating and conditioning the pharmaceutical and medical industry has been doing in the last couple of decades discrediting natural substances and trying to get people to believe that only drugs can kill germs.
Yet drugs fail with regularity. Each drug is only effective on a limited number of germs or microbes - and those microbes tend to develop immunity to that drug very quickly or are morphed into L-forms.
Stronger and stronger drugs have to be used, but that doesn't stop the bacteria. They continue to develop resistance to the stronger drugs. There are already several immune-resistant bacteria that modern medicine has no answer for.
Yet, Dr. Jean C. Lapraz stated that NO MICROBE could survive in the presence of the essential oils of cinnamon or oregano. It was true then and it is still true now.
Bacteria and microbes simply cannot develop resistance to pure and potent essential oils (we're not talking about the cheap diluted essential oils you find at the drug store or health food store. Dr. Lapraz was referring to the highest quality essential oils only).
The reason for this is that essential oils are very complex. As soon as a microbe tries to outsmart one constituent, it's hit from the side with another, from the back with another, from the other side with another, and from the front again with another, and another... Germs, bacteria and microbes are left defenseless.
Essential oils are not simple substances. They are mosaics of hundreds, or even thousands, of different natural chemicals. The average essential oil may contain anywhere from 80 to 1600 chemical constituents. Many contain even more in minute quantities, yet they all contribute to the oil's therapeutic effects.
The bottom line is that the complex chemistry of essential oils makes them ideal for killing and preventing the spread of bacteria, since microorganisms have an impossible time mutating in the presence of so many different antiseptic compounds.
Another reason germs and bacteria have a hard time developing immunity to essential oils is because of the variability in the oils. Chemical drugs are always uniform. They contain exactly the same amounts of constituents in the same proportions every time. It's easy for microbes to develop defenses to a substance that is completely predictable and unchanging.
But plants grow a little differently every time depending on the weather, soil, amount of nutrients in the soil and other natural factors. This creates subtle, but detectable variations in the chemical constituents of essential oils, so no two oils are exactly alike in structure or effects. The wide variety of compounds in essential oils makes the mutation of microorganisms extremely difficult. In case you're wondering, here are a few of the main constituents found in essential oils:
• Alcohols
• Aldehydes
• Esters
• Ethers
• Ketones
• Phenols
• Terpenes
Each of these can be broken down into numerous smaller units. Each constituent has its own action, or effects. A single oil may have several actions.
For example aldehydes; found in lavender and chamomile, are antimicrobial and calming. The ketones found in lavender, hyssop and patchouly stimulate cell regeneration. Whereas phenols, found in oregano and thyme oil, are highly antimicrobial. The eugenol found in cinnamon and clove is antiseptic and stimulating. Other constituents in clove make it antitumoral.
This is just a brief glance at the chemistry of essential oils. It takes years of study to fully comprehend it. But hopefully this gives you an idea or the complexity of essential oil chemistry. This complex chemistry produces many diverse effects of essential oils, including antimicrobial effects.
The next secret holds another surprise. I won't give away the entire secret, but I will say that essential oils are effective against more than just bacteria. Look for the next lesson here tomorrow.
Dana Young
Be Young Essential Oils
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These suggestions are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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