Oregano Oil and Harmless Blue Lig…udomonas aeruginosa.
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Oregano Oil and Harmless Blue Light to Synergistically Inactivate Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Min Lu, Ka Ioi Wong, Xin Li, Fei Wang, Li Wei, Shen Wang + 1 more
Frontiers in microbiology · 2022
Findings
When oregano oil was combined with blue light (405 nm), it killed drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria over 7 million times more effectively than either treatment alone. The combo also cleared bacterial infections in burn wounds on mice without harming healthy skin. The active ingredients doing the work: carvacrol and thymol, compounds naturally found in oregano.
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Review
Evidence
Moderate
Journal
Frontiers in microbiology
Ingredients studied