<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Jane</b></i><br>Today our doctor told us not to use OO with our boys. She said since it has only been tested with animals she doesn't feel it is a good idea to try it at this point. She said "so many of these things come and go, like the fish oil thing a few years ago". She tends to be very conservative and usually anti-herbal. Sean, or anyone else, do you know of anything documented on OO for people? I'd hate to let an opportunity go by if OO can help, but I also wouldn't start it without her approval.
Thanks
Jane<hr></blockquote>
I'm always extremely hesitant to recommend anything to either extremely sick (bad off CF wise) or extremely young CF patients. Anyways, there have been atleast 3 human studies done with their oregano based products. Here is the link to their homepage research they have, scroll about mid way down to find the human research (It's in adobe PDF format) http://www.p-73.com/cdresearch.htm
Aside from those stated (which none were for CF), and maybe one or two more I have ran into while doing my own research on the stuff, no I am not aware of any more actual human studies involved with oregano oil products. I would LOVE to see some actual CF patient trials performed by the cystic fibrosis foundation, but I doubt that will happen. Who knows though, they are doing GSH and they did do hypertonic saline. In order for them to take notice they would need a couple real CF researchers to lend their name to the potential use of the oil as a potentially helpful treatment for our symptoms. I have done as much as I can personally do without going insane. I have emailed a couple people, talked extensively to others and at my clinic, there frankly isn't much more I can do. The only thing I can hope for is that more and more people try it, and have amazing results while on it, and their clinic/doc takes notice, asks what they have been doing, and then advocate it themselves till real clinical trials can start up.
The only other thing I can offer is how myself and many others have reported feeling much better after using the substance for a while.
Thanks
Jane<hr></blockquote>
I'm always extremely hesitant to recommend anything to either extremely sick (bad off CF wise) or extremely young CF patients. Anyways, there have been atleast 3 human studies done with their oregano based products. Here is the link to their homepage research they have, scroll about mid way down to find the human research (It's in adobe PDF format) http://www.p-73.com/cdresearch.htm
Aside from those stated (which none were for CF), and maybe one or two more I have ran into while doing my own research on the stuff, no I am not aware of any more actual human studies involved with oregano oil products. I would LOVE to see some actual CF patient trials performed by the cystic fibrosis foundation, but I doubt that will happen. Who knows though, they are doing GSH and they did do hypertonic saline. In order for them to take notice they would need a couple real CF researchers to lend their name to the potential use of the oil as a potentially helpful treatment for our symptoms. I have done as much as I can personally do without going insane. I have emailed a couple people, talked extensively to others and at my clinic, there frankly isn't much more I can do. The only thing I can hope for is that more and more people try it, and have amazing results while on it, and their clinic/doc takes notice, asks what they have been doing, and then advocate it themselves till real clinical trials can start up.
The only other thing I can offer is how myself and many others have reported feeling much better after using the substance for a while.