Research: Basil Knocks out Nasty Mouth Germs

The following journal abstracts highlights the power of the aromatic compounds in two varieties of basil. It has the ability to inhibit the growth of some rather nasty bacteria which may be present in the mouth of patients whose immune systems are compromised.

Essential or volatile oils of plants have been variously reported to have many medicinal applications. Their probable uses against oral microbes have received little attention. Oral swabs obtained from eighteen dental patients at the University of Benin teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria, led to the isolation of twenty nine bacteria. Using standard methods, the microorganisms were identified as:

  • Streptococcus viridians (16; representing 55.17%)
  • Staphylococcus albus
  • Klebisiella pneumonia (2; 6.90%)
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1, 3.45%)P
  • Proteus vulgaris (1, 3.45%).
  • The antimicrobial activities of the volatile oils of Ocimum basilicum L. and Occinum gratissimum L. (African Basil) were evaluated on the twenty nine organisms using agar diffusion and agar dilution methods. In the susceptibility tests, the volatile oils of O. basilicum and O. gratissimum independently inhibited the growth of Klebisiella pneumonia at a concentration of 0.51% in the agar; Streptococcus viridians and Staphylococcus albus at 1.10% and Pseudomonas aeruginosa at 10.0%. Proteus vulgaris was inhibited at 0.53% by the volatile oil of O. gratissimum and 0.67% by O. basilicum. Separate incorporation of the volatile oils into tooth pastes (2 and 5 %), the volatiles oils showed antibacterial activities comparable to a commercial tooth paste (which contains O. basilicum 0.01% among others) against most resistant organisms. As components of mouth washes, the volatile oils completely inhibited the growth of organisms at a concentration of 0.5%.

    Pak J Pharm Sci. 2009 Oct;22(4):405-9.

    Why the swine flu virus is not a major threat

    For the last 15 years, physician and epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, MD, has made it his mission to conduct extensive reviews of all studies of seasonal influenza vaccines. With colleagues at the Cochrane Collaboration, Dr. Jefferson has co-authored over 10 Cochrane reviews to answer a wide range of questions such as: do these vaccines reduce the chance of getting influenza or reduce the risk of complications, hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people, children, healthy adults and asthmatics? Based in Rome, Italy, Dr. Jefferson has published extensively and is, arguably, the world’s leading authority on the quality of the evidence supporting seasonal influenza vaccines. As we head into winter, the U.S. media is reporting a new, more ominous viral threat that may well become a pandemic. It is, of course, the swine flu, now known as the H1N1 virus or the 2009 H1N1 virus. Dr. Jefferson is interviewed by Maryann Napoli. click here for the rest of the story

    Peanut Allergies in Children

    Peanut allergies can be deathly.  Seemingly no one knows why.  This may be partly due to a lack of connecting the dots and the partiality of some who do “research”.  As food for thought this article (here) provides some possible causes for this hypersensitivity.

    Biological Drugs Problems with drug safety

    Almost one-quarter of biologic therapies approved in the United States and Europe since 1995 have been the subject of at least one safety-related regulatory action in the decade since they were approved.

    Eleven percent, including Remicade (infliximab), used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and Avastin (bevacizumab), used to treat cancer, have been issued a “black box” warning.

    The findings, from Dutch scientists, are published in the Oct. 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    “This suggests the need for more in-depth investigation before approval and highlights the importance of vigilance in post-marketing surveillance for adverse effects,” Dr. Phil B. Fontanarosa, the journal’s executive deputy editor, said during a a Tuesday teleconference on the themed issue.

    “[Adverse effects] generally occurred in general disorders, like serious allergic reaction or cardiac arrest, administration site problems, infections and infestations,” said Fontanarosa. “A lot of these drugs act on the immune system, so infections are common complications of these products.”

    “We’ve always known that because biologics were going to modulate the immune system, there would be this risk,” said Lisa Saubermann, associate director of clinical pharmacy services at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

    The first biologic treatment, recombinant insulin, was approved in the United States in 1982. Since then, more than 250 biologics have flooded the pharmaceutical market, representing roughly one-quarter of all new drugs approved by U.S. and European Union authorities.

    Although all drugs carry risks, biologics are in a special class, because they are derived from biological sources, including antibodies, enzymes and hormones.

    Enbrel (etanercept), for instance, is a tumor necrosis factor, a protein made by the body’s immune system. The drug, used to treat various forms of arthritis as well as psoriasis, was also the recipient of a black box warning (for infections and central nervous system disorders).

    The authors of this paper, from Utrecht University, reviewed 174 biologics approved in the United States and/or the European Union between January 1995 and June 2007.

    Between January 1995 and June 2008, 82 safety-related regulatory actions were issued for 41 of the medications, or almost 24 percent of the total.

    Of these 82 actions, 63 were advisory letters to health-care professionals in the United States and Europe, and 19 were black box warnings. None of the drugs were withdrawn from the market.

    Wild bees make honeybees better pollinators

    A concept of health with the view that one should depend on pills, yearly and multiple vaccines, canned and packaged foods is ill conceived, which is major factor why many our sick.  Our bodies and our offspring are healthier when we have a healthy immune system that can interact with the environment.  It even holds true for honeybees.

    Wild bees make honeybees better pollinators

    Up to a third of our food supply depends on pollination by domesticated honeybees, but the insects are up to five times more efficient when wild bees buzz the same fields, according to a study published Aug. 28 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

    “As honeybees become more scarce, it becomes more important to have better pollinators,” said Sarah Greenleaf, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis and first author on the study.

    As a graduate student at Princeton University, Greenleaf carried out a two-year study of honeybees used to pollinate sunflower crops on farms in Yolo County, Calif., near UC Davis.

    Compared to honeybees, wild bees did not contribute much directly to crop pollination. But on farms where wild bees were abundant, honeybees were much more effective in pollinating flowers and generating seeds, Greenleaf found.

    There appear to be two reasons for that. Male wild bees, probably looking for mates, will latch onto worker honeybees, which are sterile females, causing them to move from one flower to another. Secondly, female wild bees appear to “dive bomb” honeybees, forcing them to move. Frequent movement between flowers spreads pollen around more effectively.

    Greenleaf and her co-author Claire Kremen, now a professor at UC Berkeley, calculated that wild bees contributed about $10 million of value to the $26-million sunflower industry alone.

    All the fields in the study were conventionally farmed, but varied in their proximity to natural habitat, Greenleaf said.

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    The Gardasil Vaccine

    “. . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.”

    The above is a quote from a vaccine blog I just discovered. It is well written and informative. Visit it here.

    GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues
    by Barbara Loe Fisher

    http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2008/08/gardasil-vaccine-damage-continues.html

    www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com
    www.NVIC.org
    www.StandUpBeCounted.org

    The vaccine reaction reports keep coming into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) from mothers describing how they took their healthy teenage girls into a pediatrician or gynecologist’s office where they were given a GARDASIL shot and, then, nothing was ever the same again. The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations. And the only response that comes from officials at the CDC, FDA and drug companies when perfectly healthy teenage girls collapse into unconsciousness, suffer a massive seizure, get paralyzed or die suddenly after being injected with GARDASIL is the zombie mantra: “It is a coincidence.”

    Last week a nurse who is an administrator in the outpatient department for a group of hospitals in California called and asked if NVIC had been getting reports of unusual collapse after GARDASIL vaccination. I said, yes, we are getting those reports and she said “A lot of our patients are collapsing after the shot is given. It happens with GARDASIL more frequently than with any other vaccine we give.” That same week, NVIC received a report from the mother of a 15 year old daughter who got her first GARDASIIL shot last month. Within 10 minutes of being injected, she collapsed and had her first grand mal seizure, became incontinent, temporarily lost vision in her right eye, suffered uncontrolled vomiting and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. Another report to NVIC that week also involved first-time seizures in a 15 year old girl after she got a GARDASIL shot.

    Through June 30, 2008, there have been reports that at least 17 to 20 deaths have occurred following GARDASIL and were filed with the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), although the FDA has yet to admit even one death is causally related to the vaccine, suggesting that the girls would have died that day even if no vaccine had been given. Many of the teenage girls ,who die suddenly after vaccination without explanation, were among the brightest and the best and in top physician condition. This was true for 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, a New York softball player, snowboarder and honor roll student who dropped dead within 48 hours of getting a GARDASIL shot. A coroner could find no cause for her death after an autopsy.

    There have been so many reports of reactions, injuries and deaths following GARDASIL vaccination (20-25 percent of all vaccine adverse event reports being filed with VAERS are for GARDASIL vaccine reactions) that the FDA and CDC issued a statement defending the vaccine’s safety on July 22.

    But one of the vaccine’s developers has urged caution and offers practical advice about the need for continued use of Pap screening to prevent cervical cancer rather than relying on the vaccine to do the job. ” If you are at all concerned, then don’t have the vaccine – have regular Pap smears and you will be equally protected from cervical cancer….Pap screening is still the only proven method we have for cervical cancer prevention,” said Professor Diane Harper, Ph.D. “We don’t know how long the vaccine will protect a woman from HPV infection, and the vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV infection that cause cervical cancer.”

    The “coincidence” defense mounted by doctors and drug company officials every time a vaccination is followed by injury and death is as old as it is unscientific. It is amazing that they have been able to get away with it for so long. Babies can’t talk and babies can’t walk so who they will become is still a dream. But young girls and women have already become much of who they will be and, on the cusp of fulfilling the dream, their vaccine deaths and injuries are much more difficult to sweep under the carpet.

    It is immoral for doctors in government and industry to continue to look away from the damage done when vaccines cut down the brightest and most physically fit among us. The suggestion that these healthy, high functioning girls were biologically compromised and would have died or been injured that day even if no vaccine had been given is ludicrous. If those in government responsible for protecting the public health and safety look the other way when healthy individuals die and are injured by pharmaceutical products pronounced by government as “safe” for public use, then we cannot be assured that any licensed drug or vaccine is safe.

    Last year, the head of the FDA in China was executed for allowing toxic pharmaceutical products to be licensed and released for public use that ended up killing and crippling people.

    Immune Systems Under Attack

    Experts have seen an alarming rise in immune systems disorders, from allergies, asthma, foods and multiple sclerosis to name a few. Some studies indicate that at least half of the American population has at least one allergy. Find the article here.

    In my view there are valid reasons why this may be, of which none are considered in the article. If you or a family member are suffering from allergies perhaps some of the triggers could be:

    • Consider that newborn infants are subjected to a multiple vaccines at birth, before the immune system has had a chance to develop.
    • Consider, if you eat meat, many animals are raised with a constant diet of anti-biotic drugs. There is a residue of this which is in the meat.
    • Consider that many people under age 50, have not been sick in way that fosters natural immunity…those childhood diseases that people seem to be terrified of these days.
    • Consider, how often do you interact outdoors? Are you outdoors for thirty to sixty minutes a day? How often?
    • Are you on a daily medication?
    • There are many, many chemicals that we interact with, which our ancestors did not. Many of these chemicals have not been studied from the perspective of these many multiple reactions.
    • Pesticides sprayed on our food crops.
    • Much of the cotton, corn and wheat crop in the United States have been modified by gene technology in particular with the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis. It is not known how this effects the population.
    • Artificial colors, artificial flavors that are in many processed foods.
    • There are some that scoff at the need to fast, cleanse or otherwise detox the body, but if you consider that the above list just by itself is rather large and complex as to how the immune system has to process all of these myriad combinations.

    Thoughts: When it comes to health care, education is important and a broad, insightful view may come from beyond what the acknowledged “experts” say.

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