<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
Well, my pharmacist explained the lipid pneumonia to me, but I kinda forgot what he said.... the part I retained had to do with the "vics" debate. Even if you dilute vics with water, its still oil that you're breathing, isn't it? (i will try to find the email he sent me and post it.)
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Well comparing vicks vaporub and a mycelized substance, and noting that "It's diluted with water", is so far from any form of logical biochemical connection than I can think of.
Here are the actual ingredients of Vicks vaporub:
5.26% Camphor
2.82% Menthol
0.09% Thymol
1.33% Oils of Eucalyptus
0.69% Nutmeg
0.44% Cedar Leaf
4.68% Turpentine
100% Petrolatum q.s.
Here are the general components of a typical commercially available oil of oregano (non mycelized): Oregano Oil (a-Thujene .68%, a-Pinene .53%, Myrcene .63%, a-Terpinene 1.20%, p-Cymene, y-Terpenine 6.26%, Linalool .95%, Thymol .60%, Carvacrol 79.27%, B-Caryophyllene 2.43%, a-Humulene .20%, Caryophyllene Oxide .20% ).
There is literally zero comparison between the two. Comparing concord grape juice and orange juice would be a much closer comparison. About the only real closeness the two substances share is that one has more Thymol in it (quite a bit more, but still much less than 1%) than the other.
One of the largest beneficial aspects of oil of oregano comes from it's natural, high quantity of Carvacrol (good brands with good sources yield 60% - high 80%'s).
I could sit here all night long and legitimately dispute the stated opinions of the health care professionals in which you are citeing, but what's the point. I've shown what I have shown in the past with providing others massively huge databases for them to look deeper into this substances safety and efficacy with regards towards it's use with regards to CF. If they choose not to, I can only continue to espouse what I currently say regarding the substance.
Google is your friend. Google up Carvacrol and go a couple pages back to get past the immediate spam trying to sell you oregano oil products, and start to actually look at real sources to find out more about the wonderful substance. Most of the other ingredients (and yes I have researched them as well), if found to not be an outright positive health substance, they are in such trace amounts, that by any normal application of the mycelized form of the substance, I would venture to say it would be nearly impossible to harm you, just from a chemical standpoint.
Here is a good hit on carvacrol (it is taken directly from pubmed, which is a database of the national institutes of health, which i'm sure some of us lungers have been to for some trials, like I have):
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You wanna hear their general conclusion on Carvacrol? Here ya go:
The present study showed that continuous exposure of this organism to nonbiocidal concentrations of carvacrol could disrupt normal development of the biofilm. At high concentrations (5.0 mmol/h), carvacrol caused total inactivation of both bacteria and prevented coaggregation of cells; presumably, viable cells were killed prior to the initial attachment of bacteria.
In conclusion, this study has demonstrated the inhibitory effects of carvacrol, a natural antimicrobial, in a dual-species biofilm at various stages of maturation. Pulse and continuous-exposure studies showed that carvacrol was as effective as Spor-Klenz RTU, a commercial-grade sanitizing agent, against biofilms. The results also demonstrated the resilient nature and regenerative capacity of biofilm matrices.
Oregano Oil should not be viewed as a silver bullet total cure for CF. From what we are gathering amongst those CF's who are reporting, roughly high 90 percentile are reporting vast improvement in their PFT's, and the way they feel. As for cultures, it will take much more time to try and confirm anything. A couple have reported total lack of PA in their cultures after having PA for a good period of time. That wasn't the case with me. The substance has totally eradicated my CF related arthritic symptoms, and 100% gotten rid of my Gout, along with a long time between my last hemoptysis, a complete reversal in my sinus health (from "desperately needing surgery" to "no need"), the viscosity of my mucous has drastically thinned, and the general color of my mucous has drastically lightened.
NOTHING in conventional medications/CF treatment have ever brought me to this point. I'm not saying the substance doesn't have some possible drawbacks...This is a new territory for me, as it is with other CF's willing to pony up and do what i'm doing. Those of us doing what i'm doing, were more than likely sick of "staying the course" with their current treatments CF wise. Were sick of seeing recurring cultures of multiresistant strains of PA and other common CF bugs. We were sick of feeling like crap. We personally felt like there had to be something else out there that conventional medicine was overlooking. We were willing to take a chance, when the long tedious conventional CF treatments weren't doing what they were doing before, and we faces a continual general decline in our health.
As i've said before, I don't want every CF to take it. I want there to be a user group, and a non user group, with no placebo effect present. I could totally be wrong and opening pandorah's box, but given my limited intellect, my limited education, and the mountainous research I have given forth on this topic, I am willing to make an educated guess and take a gamble. I would be happy being the only guinea pig in this test, but I had to share how the substance has helped me, and others that were in the shoes I described earlier, want to possibly benefit as well. While it might have been scientifically prudent to not reveal partial results of the test prematurely, I am still a CF patient, and I was very exuberant in general regarding my outcome. It is now nearly 8 or maybe 9 months in (I always lose track of time), and I feel just as good as I did the first week or two into the delivery of the substance into my body.
We could be foolhardy simpletons, whistleing and skipping to our demise. We could also be pioneers laying new groundwork for a new understanding, approach, and treatment of CF. We could just (and do) as easily die at a very early age due to nothing but the natural (and sometimes accelerated due to conventional medications) progression of our disease. Or people like myself took take an informed risk and "see what happens". For me there was no choice any longer. I knew I was healthier than 83% lung function, all I needed was the right substance to help alleviate my symptoms.
I could die in 10 years from some ultra bizarre one in one million biochemical reaction to taking in the substance for so long...That could be true. Now compare how I feel now, how I am seriously attempting to be "normal" again via working and many other aspects, and go back in time when I was a tore up husk from what my doctors kept doing to me and me no longer responding. Ask that person (me back then) if I would like to get on a regimen of this substance (with my current self standing there with obvious positive results), or stay languishing where he was at that point in time, probably would get worse, and have a very accelerated death?
In summation: For the 100,000 time, make your own decisions what you put in your body, but please do so with the proper research, and not just the educated guesses of those with totally biased or flawed data.
