- Jeff,
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- As you may recall, I first sent this to you several years
ago. I subsequently resent it several times because the problem continued
to be reported in the news. I am sending it again, as I continue to wave
a flag for a different approach to this problem.
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- As an outcome of my work in this area, I have been able
to come into contact with a physician researching the use of essential
oils at a prominent US medical school. We have shared information.
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- I provided some of this information to a key person
at the UK equal to our FDA. So far, the FDA has had no interest. However,
for some reason, the US postal service has been looking up my articles
on this issue.
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- I have recently connected with some people who have helped
me to refine my cleaning protocols with an extremely helpful line of cleaners
and disinfectants that include essential oils. There has to
be a wake-up call to address this serious public health problem. I've
been monitoring it and trying to get a response since the mid-1990s.
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- Maybe now is the time.
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- Gayle
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- Alternative Cure For 'Flesh-Eating' Bacteria
- By Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, CRNP,
ND
- 4-8-5
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- A CHALLENGE TO MAINSTREAM MEDICINE TO VENTURE OUTSIDE
THE BOX
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- Reported today by Gene Emery of Reuters, flesh-eating
bacteria is once again making headlines.
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- Emery reports, according to Loren Miller of UCLA Medical
Center and Scott Fridkin of the CDC, that skin infections are now found
outside hospital and include a new strain of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus.
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- Emery writes that doctors need to be aware of this and
"switch to different antibiotics at the first sign of trouble."
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- He quotes Fridkin saying that "the alarm does need
to be raised to people and clinicians that if you have a staph infection
and it's not getting better, you'd better go back to your doctor."
Later reports on findings from Miller's team saying that "doctors
must shift their attitudes toward cases of necrotizing fasciitis -- the
"flesh-eating" part of such a bacterial infection -- and check
to see if methicillin-resistant staph is to blame."
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- Almost a decade ago, when flesh-eating bacteria were
beginning to be reported, I called upon my experience as an intensive care
nurse and manager of a burn center. I wanted to address this serious health
problem from a natural healing perspective because I knew of the decades
old problem with antibiotics that were not effectively treating the condition.
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- Emery's article further defines the problem of antibiotic
resistance.
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- Consulting with a colleague of mine from the herbal traditions
of Korea who spent a number of years at Dana Farber Institute at Harvard,
I developed a protocol using a combination of his formulas that could be
used for this condition. I submitted a package to a Washington State Department
of Health researcher with clinical findings on the use of the formulas.
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- Time has passed quickly, yet at no time did I ever receive
a reply, or even a glimmer of thought from this man about the possibility
of a trial.
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- In response to a public health problem, I believed my
approach deserved consideration because people were dying.
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- Subsequently, during the past decade I have responded
to numerous media reports of flesh-eating bacteria, asking only for consideration.
The closed minds locked in the Newtonian model prevalent in mainstream
medicine never once gave consideration to a different way of seeing.
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- In addition to the herbal protocol I developed a series
of fully referenced papers using pure essential oils to attack these bacteria.
One of the texts I used as a reference is a medical textbook written by
two French physicians. In France physicians are educated in the use of
herbs and essential oils as therapeutic modalities.
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- Essential oils have a very long history and several have
very effective anti-bacterial and anti-fungal capacity. Herbs used throughout
thousands of years have this same capacity as well.
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- Seriously hoping to at least have one response, I am
saddened to say that not one reply has ever been received.
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- One would now have to ask the question: What drives these
health professionals to so totally disregard non-traditional treatment
possibilities?
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- Today, I am placing my challenge on the table.
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- Doctors, if you are truly interested in treating and
curing this problem, my protocols await.
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- Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, CRNP, ND
- Creating Health Institute
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