Oil of Oregano - Add my name to the Fanclub

Firstly, I'm not claiming a miracle cure, but Oregano Oil has worked wonders for me.

I posted a while back that experiments with VSL#3 had left me with problems digesting complex proteins, which I put down to the bacteria surviving in my stomach and restricting gastric acid/pepsin release.

I was getting desperate, as without meat or cheese my diet would be so limited as to be impossible, and I'm determined not to go back on any medication. It seemed the end of the road for that option.

Was always wary of OO as it is essentially an antibiotic, but that was what I needed at the time, so I gave it a go.

Magic, 2 days in already getting better, and then getting slowly better every day until a month later I'm back to where I was before I started messing with probiotics. The OO has, I believe, killed any bacterial overgrowth.

Interestingly, after I took the VSL#3 my fingernails started to show those white marks, but the OO has removed them completely. I'm putting this down to my stomach gaining enough acidity to absorb magnesium properly.

Unfortunately it's just the protein problem that's been fixed. Was hoping (praying) that my Histamine sensitivity was linked somehow, but that and the usual starch/inulin problem was still there.

Anyway, might not help with anyone else, but Oregano Oil does what it says, it's powerful stuff.

I keep oil of oregano in my "go to" supplements but have not needed it in a long time. It helped quite a bit in the beginning and then seemed to cause IBS so I quit it, maybe it reached it's potential. I've read about people using it for mouth ulcers too but I now use it for non-UC things like deep scratches (darn roses) that I don't want to get infected.