Natural antibiotics for Crohn’s disease and colitis
If your doctor wants to prescribe antibiotics or antifungals, either for a secondary or intestinal infection, there are several natural alternatives you can consider. These include: garlic, olive leaf extract, grapefruit seed extract, and wild oregano oil. All of these substances also have varying levels of antiviral, yeast, antifungal, and antiparasitic activity. Of these, wild oregano oil and olive leaf extract are the most potent and powerful. The only downside to wild oregano oil is that it feels very ‘spicy’ (hot pepper) for about 2-3 minutes after taking it orally, therefore it can be difficult to use with young children.
Grapefruit seed extract is also quite potent, but I do not recommend that you use it if you have any tendency to diarrhea as it will aggravate your condition. It is also extremely bitter and therefore can be quite difficult for children to drink. If you don’t have a problem with loose stools or diarrhea, you can take 10-15 drops in 5 ounces of filtered or spring water 3 times a day, on an empty stomach for best results, but it still works well when taken with food. . For children under 10 years old, take 6 drops in 5 ounces of filtered or spring water 3 times a day. To maximize antibiotic therapy, also take olive leaf extract at the same time. And remember to stick with probiotics during and / or at the end of the treatment.
Garlic can also cause diarrhea and / or bloating in susceptible people, the only way is to taste it and see it. However, I would only use it on mild bacterial infections. For strong infections, I do not think it is strong enough as it “exerts an antibacterial effect estimated to be 1% that of penicillin” (Recipe for nutritional healingby Phyllis Balch and James Balch, MD, p. 71). Garlic is also quite effective against viral, fungal, and yeast infections. Therefore, it is excellent to consume garlic daily in food. For therapeutic use, I recommend that you use Kyolic from Wakunaga of America in capsule or oil form; It is one of the most potent garlic products on the market and it is also odorless.
Olive leaf extract is probably the tastiest of the remedies listed here. You can get it in powder (capsule) or liquid form. For children, the powder can be mixed with applesauce or banana puree and can also be mixed with an herbal ointment and used as a poultice on topical infections. Dr. Morton Walker, who wrote the book Nature’s antibiotic: olive leaf extract, writes:
“Seagate Olive Leaf Extract offers a 450 mg capsule that is recommended to be taken preventively at a dose of one to two to four capsules per day. For the treatment of a microbial disease, the best dose would be four to eight capsules a day for a week, but the daily dose should be spread throughout the day. When the disease is controlled or disappears, the dose can be reduced once more to one, two, three or four capsules a day. ” (“Medical Journalist Report on Innovative Biologics” Townsend Letter to Doctors and Patients, # 214, May 2001).
In the same article, Dr. Walker also tells the story of a patient infected with three different mycoplasma organisms, who suffered from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and IBS. He took 2 pills (Seagate brand olive leaf extract), 3 times a day (after meals) for three and a half months and then his lab reports came back completely infection free. She reported that her condition was “excellent” and also that she was completely cured of IBS. Dr. Walker recommends that you only use the Seagate brand as it is a whole leaf cold drawn formulation (not just an oleuropein extract) and therefore more effective than anything else you have tried.
The olive leaf is antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiseptic. It is tastier than wild oregano oil and is therefore a good natural antimicrobial to use on children. Again, remember that anything that is an effective antibacterial must be accompanied by probiotics. If you are taking it long term, I would also simultaneously supplement it with probiotics.
Wild oregano oil is the antimicrobial I have had the most experience with. I can safely say that it is the most effective antimicrobial I have seen for topical or acute infections. It is also very effective for chronic infections such as Candida albicans (yeast), mycobacteria (bacterial / fungal hybrid) and mycoplasmas (prokaryotic bacteria). Wild oregano oil also has a wealth of data on its ability to kill pathogenic bacteria in the food industry in incredibly tiny doses.
If you dilute wild oregano oil with additional olive oil (7: 1 dilution), it is easier to use with children or directly on sensitive mucous membranes. To avoid feeling “hot” when taking it by mouth: take a sip of water and hold it in your mouth, tilt your head back, and drop the pre-measured dose of wild oregano directly into your mouth full of water on the part back of the throat. . Swallow and then chase it with much more water immediately.
Wild oregano oil (Origanum vulgare) is an anti-inflammatory as well as being an extremely powerful antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic (anti-everything!) agent. It is extracted from a particular species of oregano that grows wild in the rocky regions of the Mediterranean and has only been used in North America for about 15 years. As such, it is a relatively “new” herbal medicine in the US, and not many doctors have mastered its uses and amazing efficacy. I hope it will quickly gain momentum in the next few years, and like all really effective herbal medicines, the FDA will probably try to ban it before long!
Most of the scientific research on wild oregano oil currently comes from the field of applied microbiology in the area of food preservation. Microbiologists have found that wild oregano oil is so powerful that even small amounts can kill common foodborne pathogens responsible for many of the food poisoning incidents with processed foods.
To give you just one example, scientists in the Netherlands found that carvacrol (one of the active ingredients in wild oregano) at a dilution of just .25 mM caused cell death of the soil bacterial organism. Bacillus cereus, “a spore-forming food pathogen that is often associated with food products such as meat, vegetables, soup, rice, milk and other dairy products. Between 1 and 20% of the total number of foodborne infection outbreaks in the world are register by B. cereus.“
The scientists summarized their results by saying: “From this study, it could be concluded that carvacrol interacts with the membranes of B. cereuschanging its permeability for cations like H + and K +. The dissipation of ion gradients leads to deterioration of essential processes in the cell and ultimately to cell death. ” Bacillus cereus“By A. Ultee, EPW Kets, EJ Smid, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1999).
What this means to the layman is that even very small amounts of the phenolic compounds in wild oregano oil (such as carvacrol and thymol) can break down the cell walls of pathogenic (disease-causing) microorganisms, leading to their death.
For wild oregano oil to be effective, it must be high in of natural form Carvacrol (ideally 75% or more) – Don’t just add more Carvacrol later. Good quality and effective wild oregano oil should also be low in thymol. Thymol is a natural compound in oregano oil that must be present as it works synergistically with carvacrol. But, too much is hard on the liver, so check that the levels do not exceed 5% maximum. Remember forever Dilute pure oregano oil (undiluted, essential) in a carrier oil before using it internally or externally, or it may cause tissue damage. Most commercial brands have already been diluted with olive oil, so there is no need to further dilute them before use. Joy Of The Mountains and NAHS are my favorite brands for their potency and purity.
Regardless of which substance you decide to use to treat the infection and prevent the use of antibiotics, remember that these are very powerful compounds and you must use them wisely. Also, always remember to follow the use with a powerful probiotic, to maintain a beneficial intestinal flora.