Cass Ingram

This is a useful book about the powers of oregano oil, which can apparently heal a long list of ailments. This oil is a natural antiseptic and is effective against fungi, parasites. bacteria, Candida, you name it.

The main objection I have to this book is the title. The book being called "The cure is in the cupboard - how to use oregano for better health", we are led to believe that the oregano to which he refers is what we have purchased at a local shop and therefor have in our kitchen cupboard.

However, Dr. Ingram makes a big deal about informing us that this is not the case, that only oil of oregano purchased from a specific American firm will do the trick. Now as it happens, I live in a country where the local authorities are irritatingly persistent and successful in their efforts to confiscate all heaslth products sent to anyone from the US, so we end up losing both the product and the money spent on trying to obtain it. Consequently, I can't order the oregano products Dr. Ingram insists are the only ones at all effective.

Anyway, the point is his book title is completely misleading. I am sure he has a point, and many oregano products out there are useless. But I'm also sure tht the firm he endorses is not the only one selling some good oregano products, and it would have been helpful if he could have found some other good brands of oregano oil he could recommend to us.

(I see Amazon in the UK has a limited assortment of oregano products, so I will try one or two of those.)

Back to the book. It's not one that is easy to read from cover to cover, though this is what I have done. But it would be valuable as a handbook to consult when having a health problem to be dealt with.

The book contains a long chapter listing all sorts of ailments which can effectively be treated by oil of oregano. With each complaint we are told whether to treat with drops under the tongue, local application, drops in water, or in other ways. In some cases supplementation with oregano capsules should also be made.

Oil of oregano does seem to be a cure-all product. Well, perhaps it can't cure everything but everything caused by microbes of some sort.

Despite my objections about the title, I would recommend this book, especially to Americans who can actually get hold of the products the author recommends, should they wish to do so. Though as I mentioned above, there must be other good products available.… (más)

This book informs us of the strong curative powers of the oil of wild oregano. This oil kills viruses, bacteria, moulds, fungi and parasites.

The crucial factor, states the author, is that the oil must be derived from "the wild oregano spice, which grows in the remote high mountains of the Mediterranean", more precisely from "Lebanon, Greece, Syria, and Turkey". These are the only reliable sources.

Origanum vulgare is not the true oregano, according to him. "The true oregano is a combination of various wild plants harvested by villagers in remote Mediterranean mountains". It is thus not identified by the name of a species. (This seems very vague to me.) Moreover, Dr. Ingram states that "Carvacrol (the active ingredient in oil of oregano) is not emphasized but rather the fact that it is a whole spice or extract". It must not be Mexican, Spanish or Moroccan oregano. And it must absolutely not be a farm-raised version of wild oregano such as Origanum vulgare. Oils claimed to be made from a single species are usually farm-raised.

The author's information about the nature of the wild oregano needed to produce the optimal, safe form of oil is all very well and good, but in practice it doesn't make it easy to ascertain the value of the oregano products found available by the consumer. Previously, in his books "Natural cures for diabetes" and "The cure is in the cupboard" Ingram advised us to buy the innumerable wild oregano products available from a specific American company. Unfortunately, I live in a country where health products sent from the US are confiscated by the authorities, so I would need to order products sent from, for example, the UK. I would really have liked if Ingram in this book or another of his books had given us the names of some companies not based in the US offering sale of good sources of these "correct" and potent wild oregano oil products.

The author tells us that though the correct wild oregano is completely safe, certain forms of oregano oil are unfit for human consumption, and in fact the afore-mentioned "so-called" oregano oils from Morocco, Spain and Mexico are poisonous (so it is crucial to get hold of the right product).

This book informs us of all the various kinds of oregano products available (steam-distilled oil, aromatic water (juice), the crude crushed herb, etc. etc.). Also we are provided with many case histories telling of persons healed of severe ailments by means of the oil and other products. These ailments include asthma, yeast vaginitis, migraine, infection by Clostridium difficile, straph infection, tapeworm infestation, chronic sinus infection, etc. etc.

This is perhaps the most deadly repetitive book I have ever read, which severely impairs its readability. On the other hand we can't fail to get the message. He could have easily boiled the book down to a quarter of its present size, or perhaps less, had he excluded all the repetitions.

Ingram also brings religion into the discussion, informing us that the wondrous qualities of wild oregano were extolled both in the Bible and the "Qur'aan". Moreover, he advises us of the bogus research carried out by the drug companies and of their deception as regards oregano oil.

Read this book if you want a wealth of information about the curative properties of wild oregano products, but don't expect it to be the most exciting read.… (más)