Hey, or greetings.
Hi, it's Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Thanks for coming back.
Let's talk about oregano for as my friends in America like to say oregano.
So oregano...
Yuck, something in my mouth, hang on.
That's better.
Oregano is a herb that's been around for thousands of years.
It's not anything brand new.
Didn't come out of a lab, it's not an FDA kind of been made or approved kind of a pharmaceutical
thing.
Although they'd like it to be because it's as potent as many pharmaceutical drugs.
You wouldn't hear about that kind of stuff.
It's all squashed.
All that information's usually suppressed.
Oregano is used particularly by the Greeks.
On the Island of Crete it was used quite a lot, a long, long time ago, basically to stop
food spoilage.
They didn't really know what bacteria were, but they knew that if meats were packed with
oregano, but also thyme and marjoram and herbs like that, but particularly oregano.
The Wildcraft did one for the mountain regions high up.
They found that the meat would keep a lot longer.
It wouldn't spoil so much.
And it also tastes quite nice.
So Herb's like oregano weren't really initially used to make things taste groovy.
They didn't find a pizza company that came along, "Oh, we found this herb oregano, Oh,
it's really nice on our pizzas, you know, it's made to go and pizzas."
Well, it wasn't guys, it wasn't made to go on pizzas at all.
Tastes good with tomato, but it was used initially to stop food spoilage.
So if we think about that carefully, they discovered that it actually killed bacteria.
It stopped things from going off.
There's a chemical called a phenol or phenol, a chemical.
There are different types of phenols, thymol for example, carvacrol.
Carvacrol is a phenol found in oregano, thymol is the one found in thyme or thyme or whenever
you call it, thymus vulgaris.
Now thyme's a different type of herbal together.
I found it particularly good for coughs in the clinic, especially coughs that would not
be shaken or touched by any kind of drug.
If it sat in the chest for ages, I found that thyme oil really worked well on that.
Oregano worked more in the gut, I found with people.
There's a really good old German herbal textbook by a guy called Dr. Weiss, W-E-I-S-S.
I forget the name of it now, it's on one of those shelves, an old book.
And Weiss talks a lot about the difference between thyme and oregano.
But oregano particularly good for bacteria, wonderful for bacteria.
So the phenol carvacrol works in dilutions as small as one in 50,000, even one in a hundred
thousand, I've been reading.
Excuse me.
So, it's a super powerful antiseptic.
In fact phenols were probably the first chemicals used in surgical wards.
Okay.
So we know that it works and it's super powerful.
But a little bit like, if you're going to look at other kinds of plants, you're best
to use in combination, right?
Tea tree oil is best used on the skin in combination with other creams and things like that.
Internally, it's good to use a combination of antifungals, antibacterial, and antiparasitic
all at once if you're going to work on the gut.
I find it a much balanced way to work on the digestive system, a superior way, because
you really don't know what you're dealing with inside someone's gut.
Remember just because your doctors told you that you got SIBO, doesn't mean to say that
you ain't got any candida in the gut.
When you've got a parasite sitting in there as well, it was undetected.
Many tests don't even pick up the true extent of the imbalance in the gut.
So when you take a formula, ensure that it's got things in it that works on yeasts, parasites
and bacteria, all simultaneously, it's going to save your money.
It's going to get the condition sorted faster and yeah.
Which is going to make your life a lot better.
But give it a shot.
So the question is, is oregano any good for SIBO?
It's fantastic for SIBO, but just like berberine in a previous video I made, it should really
be balanced with other herbs in a formula.
So it's not going to have it overpowering effect.
Hope that gives you a bit of interesting information.
Thanks for tuning in.