Oregano Essential Oil vs Oreganol or Oil of Oregano and Other Such Nonsense

[Guest guest]

Howdy y'all,

 

Time to clarify and update the info I wrote below:

 

 

> Off the track a minute .. I will mention that there is another News Group

> that is concerned with Alternative and Complementary Treatment .. not near

> as informative as this one and certainly not nearly as concerned with safe

> use of EO .. that has open discussions of any and all wild schemes

> to achieve health and happiness. I have monitored it for a long time but

> rarely post. The other day I made a post that exposed some of the Bovine

> Excrement marketing of many who sell Oregano EO .. and either the List Mom

> or one of her moderators saw fit to not allow that post .. and did not even

> have the courtesy to write me off line and explain why.

>

 

I see now that they allowed my post to be put on the list last night .. and

I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe was

working slow .. or whatever .. but all is well so that is a dead issue

now. I will repeat some portions of that post because it is also pertinent

to this group .. many folks have been fooled by those who sell Oil of This

or that .. in particular, Oil of Oregano .. it is NOT a pure essential oil

... that is why they don't call it Essential Oil. I wrote .. in part:

 

Except for one item, I won't comment on the list you provided above since I

long ago learned it was a lost cause to try to insert reality into the

fictional world of natural products .. the one I will comment on is the

so-called " mountain grown " Origanum. A few years back a fellow named Cass

Igram wrote a book called " The Cure is in the Cupboard: How to Use Origanum

for Better Health " .. of some such title. In this book Igram claimed that

ONLY wild, mountain grown Turkish Origanum vulgare had therapeutic

properties .. all the others were a waste of time, etc. This was total hawg

warsh but Igram and the company he worked with. North American Herb and

Spice, made a lot of money with such claims .. he was on the radio often and

his company even got into multi-level marketing.

Pretty soon we had a fad going and everybody and his buddy did a spring off

and started selling Oil od Oregano .. calling it Mountain Grown Origanum

vulgare.

 

The problems with these claims are .. they are not factual. And .. most of

what these people (including Igram) were selling were NOT Origanum vulgare.

There is not enough wild grown Origanum vulgare produced to supply all of

those who make such claims. How do I know this? First, those who know me

consider me to be one of the knowledgeable folks on Turkish Origanums and

Rosa damascena (Rose Otto) .. and I was a major supplier to Igram for a long

time .. sold him TONS of Oregano Essential Oil each month .. and it was NOT

all Origanum vulgare. It mattered not that it was not because it is NOT only

Origanum vulgare that has powerful therapeutic properties (to include being

a fantastic anti-fungal EO) .. any and all of the Carvacrol rich Origanums

will do the same thing. Oh yea .. Turkish Origanum vulgare is NOT

necessarily Mountain Grown .. true it is that the lion's share of it comes

from the southeast and the area is mountainous .. but just as much is found

in the lowlands and along the Med Coast .. and its batched .. not separated

by region.

 

In Turkey, harvest of wild grown aromatics is restricted to the peasants

only .. it is controlled by the Ministry of Forests and enforced by the

Gendarmes. The peasants in a particular area will harvest the plants and

then sell them to a broker .. that broker then hauls them into the stills ..

in many trucks. Sometimes they arrive at the still in a convoy of 5 and 10

ton trucks .. packed in 40 kilo bags. The still will do a cursory

inspection .. maybe opening a few bags and spreading the plant material out

onto a concrete floor .. what he is looking for is material that is not

Origanum. From that material he will get a yield of between 15-20 kilos of

oil per metric ton of aromatic material .. so there are many trucks showing

up.

 

I will stop here .. I could go on and on as I have written tons on the

Origanums over the years. Just to let y'all know who I am .. I am a retired

U.S. Army Military Police Officer (30 years service) .. and I have spent 26+

years of my life living in Turkey .. I just returned from my latest stint in

Turkey (which lasted 19+ years) in summer of 2007. I was a contract

producer of EO .. among other things. I closed my company in Turkey but

still own the one in Maryland .. and I have now settled in Henry County, TN

... near Kentucky Lake. I've been in this business since 1995 but odds are

that this will be my last year because I have now learned that I am more

interested in organic gardening, fishing and hunting deer and wild turkey.

;-)

 

The point of this post is to inform y'all .. and to save you money. You do

NOT have to swallow all the crap that is put out by sellers of Oregano EO ..

or any other natural product. It is good marketing to make one's wares

appear to be special .. but in most cases it is not factual information.

Y'all keep smiling. :-)

 

Butch .. http://www.AV-AT.com <http://www.av-at.com/>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

" I've been in this business since 1995 but odds are

> that this will be my last year because I have now learned that I am more

> interested in organic gardening, fishing and hunting deer and wild turkey.

> ;-) "

 

Butch you drug me out of lurkdom! If you retire where am I going to get my

rose hydrosol? I am waiting for you to get a new batch in.

Gayla Roberts

Always Enough Ranch

Acampo CA