Origanum onites Experiment ** Lung Tumors in Rats

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Hi y'all,

 

Since things are kinda quiet now .. I'm gonna resend a few old posts

that have hit this list .. and others .. in the past and hope some of

the new folks pick up some new info. :-p Butch

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A couple of weeks ago somebody asked about the experiment conducted

using Oregano (Origanum onites) in treating lung tumors in rats. I did

mean to answer but got behind the power curve and didn't save the post.

Anyway .. the facts are:

 

The test was conducted at the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant and Drug

Research Center in Eskisehir, Turkey. Professor Dr. K. Husnu Can Baser

and 4 other professors conducted all phases.

 

A series of lab tests were conducted, after a period of time, it was

determined that there was justification to do animal testing, so twelve

adult Wistar albino rats of both sexes were acquired.

 

The test was to determine the inhibitory effects of carvacrol on DMBA

induced pulmonary tumorigenesis in rats.

 

Cancer was induced in the lungs of each of the rats. The rats were put

into three groups of four each. The first group received no treatment -

the second group was treated with standard antitumor agent, Colchicine.

The third group was treated with Carvacrol, essential oil of Origanum

onites L., in a base of neutral sterile olive oil.

 

The lungs of all of the rats developed tumor-like dark red and brown

spots. By six days, all the untreated rats had died and one of the rats

in the second group (treated by conventional anti-cancer treatments) had

died. All the rats were put to sleep and examined with a microscope.

 

The second group has considerable evidence of slowing of tumor

development. In the third group (the group treated with carvacrol)

there was evidence of complete loss of tumor development. In fact,

tumorial activity had ceased and the lung tissue was repairing itself.

 

The study concluded that carvacrol possessed antitumor activities on

lungs induced by DMBA, and determined that FURTHER STUDY is required.

 

Again, this is not a recommendation and I cannot give more details on

this study ... it is known to many in the scientific community but has

not been published for some reasons I won't go into now.

 

I have the colored micro-slides .. they are quite clear. I gave a

briefing on this at the IATA conference in Toronto in 1999 .. and had

planned to do it again at the NAHA conference in June 2002, but as you

all know .. I have declined to participate in that conference.

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com