The Antibiotic Crisis by Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D.
The Antibiotic Crisis
by Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D.
The following extract is taken from Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils by Kurt Schnaubelt, 1999, Frog, Ltd.
North Atlantic Books Berkeley CA. ISBN 1-883319-62-2.
Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D., is Director of the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy, P.O. Box 6723, San Rafael, California, 94903
(415) 479-9121. He offers courses on aromatherapy in San Rafael as well as by correspondence.
His books are available through bookstores and at www.Amazon.com.
This excerpt is in Chapter 5, pp. 72-74.
“There is conclusive evidence on the destructive consequences of the overuse of antibiotics (and also how to avoid it).
Antibiotic pressure on an organism can be a cofactor in immune deficiency conditions. Antibiotics were originally prescribed to fight bacterial diseases. But once these drugs became major moneymakers, their marketing took on a life of its own. Economic interests dictates finding more uses for a product that is already selling well, because sales increase without new development costs.
Research to find additional uses for products is eagerly sponsored and eventually research and sales create a new reality.
Unaware of the link to mass destruction of their immune systems, an unsuspecting generation upped its antibiotic intake.
“Antibiotics taken by small children often create the diseases they aim to cure. Premature antibiotic use during the onset of a childhood disease will deprive the immune system of the opportunities to interact with the pathogen. An inactivated immune system does not learn to recognize intruding microorganisms, nor does it learn to build antibodies. The result? A child will quickly relapse with the same disease and the cycle repeats. A reoccurring disease becomes chronic and leads to an overall debilitation of the body.
“Another potentially even greater problem is the seemingly unstoppable advance of resistant bacteria. Bacteria, resistant to most or all of the known antibiotics, are menacing hospitals and their patients. The development of these “super germs” was brought on by the reckless use of antibiotics in the meat industry as well as their over prescription by doctors. In his sanely radical book, Spontaneous Healing, (1995, Alfred Knoph) Andrew Weil comments: ‘Doctors must bear much of the responsibility for getting us into our growing predicament with aggressive
bacteria; by over prescribing and mis-prescribing antibiotics, they have brought on the coming catastrophe.’
“Antibiotics are still widely prescribed by doctors for viral conditions such as the common cold or the flu despite the fact that they are
not effective in these cases. The depth of the conditioning becomes obvious when antibiotics display placebo effects.
“Workers in an office struggle with the flu for a week or two and, at some point, a few take antibiotics with the following results.
“Outcome 1: No obvious differences are observed between those who take the antibiotics and those who don’t. The flu comes and goes.”
“Outcome 2: Some of those who took antibiotics recover quickly. A typical belief is that the antibiotics ultimately cured the flu.
“Outcome 2 is extremely puzzling. Influenza is a viral infection and antibiotics are not effective against viruses. Still, these individuals claim that they worked. There are two possible explanations:
1. The immune status of some individuals is so compromised from antibiotics overuse or other causes that a flu virus will automatically
trigger bacterial secondary infections of such severity that relief from an accompanying symptoms is perceived as the antibiotics being
effective against the flu itself. 2. Our deep conditioning to believe in the effectiveness of antibiotics triggers improvement. The antibiotics were a placebo!”
“The antibiotics crisis is an example of the fact that commerce is not concerned about the consequences it creates for human life.
All aspects of modern existence are penetrated by the goal to maximize profits. Sadly, this has been most successful in medicine.”
“Approximately two decades ago the projections for worldwide sales of pharmaceuticals for the year 2000 were estimated to reach about $250 billion. This number was a gross under-estimation; the health -care industry currently grosses almost a thousand billion dollars and the biggest-selling pharmaceutical drugs each generate one billion dollars annually in the United States alone. Potential pharmacological breakthroughs generate corresponding changes in stock prices and make headlines in the business sections. The profit motive permeates the medical world completely.”
“As a result, diseases are essentially classified according to the availability of drugs, which are the only form of therapy that can be produced on an industrial scale. The drug companies have an ideal partner in scientific medicine, which ignores (for the most part) social and psychological causes of disease. The mechanic “physician” is offered a tool that can be reproduced without limit.”
Editor’s Note:
There are many Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils, that seem to support the immune system during a Virus or Bacterial attack.
These include: Eucalyptus globulus, Eucalyptus radiata, Ledum (Ledum groenlandicum), Lemon (Citrus limon), Mountain Savory
(Satureja Montana), Myrtle (Myrtus communis), Oregano (Oreganum compactum), Thyme (Thymus vulgaris CT thymol),
Roselina (Melaleuca ericifolia), Peppermint (Mentha piperita), Pine (Pinus sylvestris), Ravensara (Ravensara aromatica),
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis CT verbenon), Spearmint (Mentha spicata), and Tea Tree (Melaleuca alternafolia). The
following blends are also supportive of immune function: Thieves, Immuppower, and Exodus II.
For more complete information on the effective use of
essential oils, see the Reference Guide to Essential Oils by
Connie & Alan Higley, 547 pp., $24.00. Available from CARE
at http://www.RaindropTraining.com or the Essential Oils Desk
Reference, 461 pp., $39.95, available from Essential Science
Publishing at http://www.essentialscience.net.
May 23, 2010
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3 Responses
I love the smell and taste of Oregano when added in some recipes.;*,
i always use Oregano and other herbs on my soup and homecooked meals;`.
oregano is a good additive on pastas and salads, oregano helps to add that tangy flavor~–
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