Adding Cistus Essential Oil to your Lyme protocol could enable vast improvements. Growth inhibiting activity of rock rose (cistus) volatile oil against Borrelia burgdorferi Lyme bacteria: Lyme disease (Borreliosis) patients from self-help groups reported considerable pain relief after ingestion of rock rose leaf preparations. Rock rose leaf extracts such as aqueous, ethyl acetate, hexane extracts as well as the volatile oil fraction obtained by steam distillation were tested for their antibacterial activity against Lyme bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) using the antibiotic amoxicilline as standard and polysorbate 80 as solubilizer for lipophilic extracts. Comparison of the four plant preparations shows that the volatile oil exerts the strongest growth inhibitory effect. Even concentrations of 0.02% (weight/volume) volatile oil in cultivation media reduced the total number of bacteria to 2% in comparison to a growth control after an eight-day cultivation period. While the aqueous extract did not reduce bacterial growth. The main volatile components of the three active extracts tested were analyzed by GC-MS. The number of different labdane-type diterpenes as well as the total relative amount of diterpenes in the samples tested was highest in rock rose essential oil. Labdane-type diterpenes, manoyl oxide, 13-epi-manoyl oxide, 3-acetoxy-manoyl oxide and the monoterpene carvacrol were determined to be the major constituents which are known to exert antimicrobial activity.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:39:54 +0000
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