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After seeing news articles say there was NO EVIDENCE that essential oils work for Ebola and hearing that the FDA has not approved any oils for any sort of disease, I decided to see what was out there and expose the essential oil industry. Instead, I found a mountain of peer reviewed studies for all kinds of serious diseases saying how well they work, even on Ebola! So, I decided to set up this blog to post a few studies a week to expose the real frauds and show the world what NO EVIDENCE looks like.
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Small Cell Lung Cancer and Constituents of Thyme and Oregano


In conclusion, it can be suggested that carvacrol may have an anticancerogenic effect and it could be used as a drug substance to cure cancer. However, more research concerning the possible utility of carvacrol in cancer treatment is war- ranted. 

 (Introduction Carvacrol is a phenolic compound present in the essential oil fraction of oreganum and thyme. It has been shown to exhibit antibacterial and anti- fungal activity and its primary site of toxicity is the membrane, causing damage and collapse of the integrity of this membrane and leakage of vital intracellular constituents (Periago and Moezelaar 2001).) 

 2003 Nov;43(1-3):149-54. doi: 10.1023/B: CYTO.0000039917.60348.45.

Effects of Carvacrol on a Human Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Cell Line, A549.

Koparal AT1, Zeytinoglu M.

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Abstract

Carvacrol, the predominant monoterpene in many essential oils of Labitae including Origanum, Satureja, Thymbra, Thymus, and Corydothymus has substantial antibacterial, antifungal, antihelmintic, insecticial, analgesic and antioxidant activities. Approximately 75% of lung cancer is non-small cell carcinoma (NSCLC) which comprises several histologic types squamous cell, adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma. It was reported that the portion of lung tumors diagnosed as denocarcinoma has increased. Thus a human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line, A549 was chosen for this study.To investigate the effects of carvacrol on cell morphology, apoptosis and total protein amount, the cells incubated with various concentration of carvacrol in DMSO for 24 h. In carvacrol applied A549 cell line, increase in dose of carvacrol caused a decrease in cell number, degeneration of cell morphology and a decrease in total protein amount. To characterize carvacrol induced changes in cell morphology, cells were examined by light microscopy. Cells were treated with carvacrol were seen to have detached from the disk, with cell rounding, cytoplasmic blebbing and irregularity in shape. The data demonstrate that carvacrol is very potent inhibitor of cell growth in A549 cell line.
PMID:
 
19003220
 
[PubMed] 
PMCID:
 
PMC3449592
 


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