Common garden herb can wipe out deadly infections

Where do you turn when a problem is just too big for Big Pharma to tackle?

More and more, the answer is back to the things that have been there all along.

The latest example is the risk of getting a MRSA infection. You know, the dreaded superbug that threatens tens of thousands of hospital patients.

A team of British and Indian researchers has discovered that tiny amounts of carvacrol, a naturally occurring compound in the herb oregano, can zap this deadly intruder. In fact, its ability to kill fungi and bacteria has been found to be more effective than 18 different drugs!

Carvacrol stays potent in boiling water. So it can be used to sterilize hospital sheets.

And even its vapor can kill microbes. That means it could be turned into a disinfectant spray.

The number of MRSA cases, according to CDC data from 2010 and 2011, were over 80,000 a year. Now just imagine if a traditional garden-variety herb could cut that down to zero!

Maybe the real ‘wonder drugs’ of the world are the ones found in our gardens and spice racks.

Sources:
“MRSA could be wiped out with…OREGANO, say British scientists” Daily Mail, dailymail.co.uk