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The Cure is in the Cupboard; Dr. Cass Ingram
Topic Started: Aug 26 2007, 11:04 PM (283 Views)
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The Cure is in the Cupboard
by Dr. Cass Ingram

Introduction
Microorganisms are the most predominant of all creatures. Usually, microbes are regarded as an outside force. We don’t think of them as being in or on us, but they are and by the billions and even trillions. The fact is that the human body is being invaded by a greater number of microbes than can be imagined. It is shocking to learn that within each individual there are greater number of microbes than all of the cells in the entire body. Put simply, the number of microbes living within our bodies and in our near environment is virtually infinite.

Microbes exert a profound influence upon an individual’s health and longevity. Infectious diseases are a major cause of illness, disability, and death in America today. Recent surveys indicate that up to 90% of the visits to doctors’ offices are infection related. Infections are certainly the primary cause for hospital visits in infants and children. Virtually everyone can recall at least one hospitalization as a child or teenager because of an infection.

Infectious diseases are the major cause of premature death worldwide, but this is not the case currently in the United States. Degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer, remain the primary killers. Yet, from the 1600s to the early 1900s the vast majority of deaths in America, other than those occurring from natural causes, were infection related. For instance, in the early 1900s several million Americans died from flu epidemics alone. Certainly, in that era there were other major killers, including cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, smallpox, typhus, pertussis, hepatitis, shigella, and amebic dysentery. However, by the 1940s deaths from these diseases had declined dramatically. Various factors, including improved sanitation, nutrition, and the advent of antibiotics, were responsible for the decline. Yet, infections still kill and the fact is millions of Americans die every year from various infectious diseases.

What seems bizarre is that infectious diseases remain a major cause of death and disability despite the advances of modern medicine. Medicine has simply failed to stem the rising incidence of a variety of microbial diseases, many of which are actually ancient diseases revisited. The latest statistics show that deaths caused by infections have risen from 1980 to 1992 by some 60%. At this rate by the 21st century infectious diseases will rival heart disease and cancer as a primary cause of death.

The astonishing aspect of this infectious epidemic is the impotence of modern medicine in controlling it. Antibiotics have failed to halt the advance of modern-day infectious killers, and there is not a single drug that is a guaranteed cure for any of the major infectious diseases. In fact, drugs, particularly antibiotics, have aggravated the dilemma. This is because the widespread use of antibiotics has created drug-resistant microbes. What happens is that the microbes, due to their propensity for survival, essentially “outsmart” the drugs. They alter their genetics and , thus, become immune to the antibiotic. These “mutant” microbes and a major cause of severe illness in westernized countries. Because they are genetically altered, mutant microbes are not only able to resist antibiotics, but they are also capable of evading our immune defenses. Incredibly, some bacteria are actually able to digest antibiotics and use a portion of them as fuel. Put simply, they are “genetically intelligent” and therefore extremely difficult to kill.

Infections by mutant microbes are usually severe and often life threatening. Incredibly, according to Hippocrates magazine some 130,000 hospitalized patients die every year from antibiotic-resistant microbes in the United States alone. Furthermore, as described by Lappe in Germs That Won’t Die tens of millions of Americans who are free of serious infections develop them simply by entering a hospital, either as a patient or visitor. These statistics illustrate the massive scope of the mutant microbe epidemic. Surely, uncountable thousands of other individuals lose their health or their lives from infections which could be potentially cured, if physicians only knew about the antiseptics of Nature.

Drug resistance is only one of many problems with antibiotics. Allergic reactions to antibiotics are relatively common. The reactions are often sudden and severe. With penicillin alone thousands of deaths occur worldwide from anaphylactic shock. Besides death, significant damage to the immune system and internal organs may result from allergic sensitivity to antibiotics such as penicillin, tetracyclines, sulfa drugs, and cephalosporins. What’s more, antibiotics disrupt the balance of microbes of microbes in the body. The human body contains untold trillions of germs of various types. These germs live in sort of competitive balance. When that balance is disrupted, noxious germs may gain a foothold, leading to potential tissue damage by pathogenic bacteria. Plus, antibiotics induce genetic mutants, an effect which is disastrous.

Americans spend billions of dollars every year on antibiotics, either prescription or over-the-counter. Unfortunately, much of this money is wasted. Not only are the antibiotics largely ineffective, but they often aggravate the illnesses. There are several reasons for this negative effect. As mentioned previously antibiotics create the anomalous, continue to cause infection and are exceedingly difficult to destroy. Antibiotics destroy certain bacteria which perform useful functions, I.e. the friendly bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidus. These useful bacteria are an aid to the immune system and help prevent infection by noxious microbes. Drug toxicity is another disadvantage arising from the wholesale reliance upon antibiotics. A variety of antibiotics, such as aminoglycosides, erythromycin, and tetracyclines, readily poison the internal organs such as the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and kidneys. The fact is antibiotics are a relatively common cause of hepatitis, that is inflammatory damage of the liver. In some cases the damage is so extreme that liver failure and/or death may result. Furthermore, antibiotics exert direct toxic effects upon the immune system and may impair the antimicrobial actions of white blood cells. Although antibiotics are useful in certain circumstances -- and may prove lifesaving -- the point is they are prescribed excessively, and this leads to a wide range of health disasters.

Unfortunately, antibiotics are often demanded by the public out of fear. They may also be prescribed by doctors because of emotional reasons. For example, parents bring a child suffering from a bad cough and fever to the doctor. The temperature is over 100; the child is cranky and had no appetite. The parents are concerned, rather, scared; the doctor isn’t afraid so much of the illness as he/she is of the parents or a potential lawsuit. The parents want something done immediately; the doctor feels obligated to prescribe an antibiotic even though the illness is probably caused by a virus, which is immune to antibiotics. This type of event happens millions of times every day. The fact is tens of millions of antibiotic prescriptions are dispensed erroneously for viral infections each month. Incredibly, rather than a definite medical need, fear of litigation is the motivation for dispensing the prescription. obviously, the situation is entirely out of control.

Pharmaceutical firms are in a quandary. They cannot create drugs fast enough to keep pace with microbial resistance. They have lost all hope for producing a “magic bullet.” Pharmaceutical houses cannot provide medicines capable of stemming the rising tide of drug-related infections.

Incredibly, drug companies are for the first time in recent history evaluating the potential of natural substances as well as compounds which enhance immunity as the answer. Yet, In the 1930s natural compounds were the primary substances dispensed for treating infections, and it was the advent of penicillin in the 1940s which displaced them. Before penicillin, itself a natural compound, doctors prescribed a wide range of natural antiseptic, and the list included sulfur, garlic, ginger, goldenseal, echinacea, thyme, camphor and horseradish. Certainly, drug-like compounds were administered in that era, including silver nitrate, mercury compounds, arsenic compounds, iodine, and phenol. The aforementioned are potentially toxic and have largely been discarded. Other poisons, such as turpentine and petrochemicals, were administered. However, a visit to a museum, antique store, or old pharmacy illustrates the true trend in America before World War II; a review of the labels of old medicine bottles reveals that natural medicines were the mainstay, and this was the case throughout America for over 200 hundred years. In other words, while certain early medicines were poisons or the so-called snake oils containing ingredients like kerosene, turpentine, arsenic, and mercury, the majority were derived from various natural ingredients/herbs such as goldenseal, echinacea, ginger, seneca, balsam, burdock, wintergreen, cinnamon, citronella, coriander, cardamom, cumin, birch bark, cherry bark, clove, thyme, sage, oregano, and dozens of others. All of these herbs possess antibiotic powers.

For untold centuries herbalists and physicians throughout the world used natural substances for treating infections, and microbial resistance was unknown. In the ancient eras as well as relatively recent history natural antibiotics were the only hope for combating microbial infections.

Now too we must rely upon natural medicines to eradicate a panorama of infectious diseases, including drug-resistant infections. Certainly, synthetic antibiotics are unreliable as the cure, plus the side effects are extensive and often severe, whereas, with a few exceptions, natural antibiotics are essentially non-toxic.

Oil of oregano is the premier natural antiseptic. It possesses vast microbial killing powers. Every microbe against which it is tested succumbs to it. Uniquely, there is no tendency for microbial resistance. It is the premier of all natural antiseptics. It is such an effective antiseptic that it cannot be matched either in the synthetic or natural arena in terms of its ability to kill a wide range of microbes.

Oil of oregano is an herbal oil derived from certain species of oregano plants. The medicinal oregano is different from the type usually found in the garden. It is also different than the commercial spice, which is often only a small percentage true oregano.

It is important to realize that wild oregano is not the same as the one found in the spice section of the grocery store or the type found in pizza. However, there are over 30, perhaps as many as 40, species of oregano, and this leads to great confusion in respect to its medicinal actions. In other words oregano as we
know it commercially is not the medicinal variety. Be forewarned that it would be difficult to accrue its curative powers by eating pizza and spaghetti.

Medicinal grade oregano arises from a unique species of plants which grow wild throughout the world. The highest grades are found in the Mediterranean. This “wild” oregano is rich in essential oils, which may be extracted by distillation. The herb is processes by a special type of distillation which has been performed for thousands of years. The “proprietary” distillation procedure ensures minimal alteration of the active ingredients, and thus, the curative powers are entirely preserved. The result is a pale brownish-yellow or amber looking oil possessing a powerful and hot tasting flavor. Its odor is similar to that of camphor. The oil blends readily with fat in which its strong taste and odor is modified. With time oil of oregano turns brown and may eventually develop a dark brown hue. It takes some 200 pounds of herb to produce 2 pounds of oil. This oil is not only difficult and expensive to produce, but it is entirely unique compared to that found in the more familiar varieties or oregano. Ten thousand pounds of commercial oregano could be distilled and the resultant extract could never achieve the beneficial effects of even a few ounces of wild oil of oregano.

The oregano used in food, such as that found in spaghetti sauce and pizza, which is also the type that may be purchased at the spice counter, isn’t even oregano. It is marjoram and is known as sweet marjoram. It is regarded as sweet , because its flavor is rather pleasant and is utterly mild compared to the true oregano. Marjoram, not oregano, is commonly the spice which is added to pizzas. The herb and oil or utilized by food processors to flavor everything from meats and sauces to alcoholic beverages and soft drinks. [root beer] Oil of marjoram is used as a fragrance for soaps, detergents, and cosmetics and is also an ingredient of perfumes. Furthermore, some of the common spice isn’t even marjoram let alone oregano. For instance, virtually all of the so-called oregano available on the West Coast is instead an oregano-like plant from Mexico. This species is entirely unrelated botanically to either oregano or marjoram. It merely tastes similar to oregano and is actually Mexican sage.

Because of these discrepancies, it is crucial to realize just what the terms oil of oregano, crushed wild oregano, and oregano spice mean in reference to this book. These terms define entirely different substances than the commercially available spices and plants. In other words, whatever the supermarket has on its shelves or whatever the health food purveyor might provide, it isn’t medicinal grade oregano: period. Such products will not and cannot exhibit the curative effects described in this book. The only guarantee wild medicinal grade oregano spice and oil available is made by North American Herb and Spice Company under the trade names Oregamax and Oreganol. These compounds are derived from true oregano spices. Only these can be relied upon to possess the various health advancing attributes that are to be expected of the true herb.

Infections are merely one of a panorama of uses for oil of oregano. This profound substance exerts valuable anti-inflammatory actions. Furthermore, it is an antioxidant. It has an anti-venom action and is capable of neutralizing the venom of a wide range of organisms, including spiders, scorpions, bees, ants, and snakes. Oregano oil is a natural anesthetic, and thus, it is invaluable in the treatment of various painful lesions and pain disorders. It is also a mycolytic, which means it helps thin and mobilize mucus, and this function makes it useful for lung disorders. It is an antitussive agent, meaning it halts cough and eases spasticity of the lung tubules. Additionally, oil of oregano possesses antispasmodic powers, meaning it obliterated tightness and spasms of the muscles.

Despite the multitude of its use, the greatest attribute of the oil is a result of its antimicrobial powers. Oil of oregano hold supremacy as Nature’s most powerful and versatile antiseptic.

The rest of the book has uses and testamonials of how it has helped others. Dr. Ingram was himself relieved of something like AIDS (he won't give specifics....).
As a doctor he was treating AIDS patients. One day he went into an exam room and the tech had not cleaned it up yet. He grabbed all the "trash" and was stuck in the hand by a syringe. The syringe had been used on an AIDS patient. He became ill. After a few moths he was bedridden and stayed in bed for 2 years, lost his practice and more. A lady form Italy came to visit and recommended this oil. She ordered some for him. He was healed and now tells everyone about the wonderful oil which saved his life.

ISBN# 091111974-4
Retails for $19.95 (US)
I bought for $16.96 at my HFS.

www.p-73.com for more of Dr. Ingram's research

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