Hello all. I am going to write a more detailed post on my website soon, but I have been getting great results from nebulizing several oils over the last seven weeks. Just for context, I have a very heavy MRSA burden that responds to very little except vanco. I get chronic fevers and tons of mucus/coughing any time I'm not on antibiotics (except for now that I'm using essential oils). So this discovery of mine has been pretty miraculous, I must say.
I nebulized eucalyptus radiata essential oil (organic from Aura Cacia) for 5 weeks and it resulted in a 8% jump in my FEV1. I nebulized 2 drops of euca oil in 2 mL of saline twice a day. My spasmy morning cough disappeared, my night fevers disappeared, my mucus is significantly decreased, coughing is easier, energy is much better, lungs are less inflamed and irritated, less tickling, able to breath in deeply now, I can no longer hear crackling on my breath.
I took a break from eucalyptus to experiment with other oils. I tried pine oil (coughing and mucus increased but did not return to "normal") for a week but I declined so I went back to euca. I tried cinnamon leaf oil a few times but it's too irritating and hurts my throat a lot. Cinnamon leaf may have even made me short of breath and a little more irritated.
After a week and a half of these non-eucalyptus experiments I went back to nebulizing eucalyptus. For the last week I have been using a combo of one drop euca, one drop tea tree oil, one drop lemongrass. I got my FEV1 done again today (2.5 weeks later) and it is down 2% from last time. But I am not disappointed because I had taken a break from the euca which made me feel worse, and it took a good amount of time (about 4 weeks) for the euca to really make me feel great. But my lungs are clear and open and even more mucus-free than 3 weeks ago. So I feel I am on the right track. By the way, tea tree and euca are pretty chill compared to lemongrass which is pretty irritating but not as bad as cinnamon. I am still using lemongrass because I feel it is the strongest antibacterial oil of the 3.
I will continue experimenting with different oils to see which are most effective. I have been doing a lot of research, reading a lot of clinical data, and consulting with many herbalists and aromatherapists on this issue. As I said, I have much more info to share, but I will save that for my blog post. It will include references to the scientific research that I have come across (which is the basis for why I have chosen the oils I have). I will post a link when the article is finished.
