A Brief Look at Oils to Treat Active Lyme & Persister and Biofilm Forms
We need to go beyond merely brutal drugs to kill persister Lyme forms, which exist according to 700 articles
(which are not read by 99.99% of physicians).
So we need non-toxic options to destroy chronic persistent forms. I think of these as “hibernating,” or “frozen forms.”
And a way to destroy the highly common slime covered super antibiotic barrier form–the biofilm coated form.
In studying 47 oils the following could kill the active moving cork-screw form and round-shaped persisters:
- Bay leaf oil
- Birch oil
- Cassia oil
- Chamomile oil
- German oil
- Thyme oil…
and these fatty acids:
- Docosadienoic acid
- Erucic acid
- Petroselinic acid
Only Bay leaf oil and Cassia oil, including their major constituents, eugenol and cinnamaldehyde, could impact biofilm bacteria, but only killed about 25%. We have published and routinely used oils with these two parts.
As we published in 2014 in our Biofilms book, volatile hot oils were more potent than non-volatile oils. We feel simple cool oils are less able to penetrate complex barrier films.
Simply, we are not talking about mere “healthy” oils, we are talking about oils that can “blow through a foot of biofilm jelly.”
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Goc, A., Niedzwiecki, A. & Rath, M. Anti-borreliae efficacy of selected organic oils and fatty acids. BMC Complement Altern Med 19, 40 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-019-2450-7