Olive Leaf Extract

Overview

Olive leaves offer the one, true, natural and nontoxic way to eliminate illnesses arising from viruses, bacteria, fungi, yeasts, protozoa, worms, flukes, and other parasites. Ingredients in olive leaves work against those specific microbes causing herpes infections, skin diseases, candidiasis, malaria, arthritis, heart trouble, flu, and even the common cold. Such olive leaf ingredients are now available as a single extract processed into a supplement.

Effective Ingredient

Oleuropein, the powerful germ killer in olive leaf extract, has been used as a cure-all for thousands of years among those populations bordering the Mediterrean. The people didn't know why brewed olive leaf tea worked, but it did reduce their rates of infection. Oleuropein is a phenolic compound and the source of disease-resistant characteristics of the olive tree. Finally, its remedial properties have been recognized by herbalists and holistic health practitioners as a totally effective, completely safe, and truly remarkable all-natural healer of microbial infections. Olive leaf extract is nature's answer to the medical profession's creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Therapeutic Benefits of Olive Leaf

• It strengthens the body's immune system.
• It's the curative for malaria and other protozoan diseases.
• It helps block the growth of viral diseases such as HIV, Epstein Barr, cytomegalovirus, genital herpes, shingles, cold sores, and retrovirus.
• It helps stop sore throats, sinusitis, rhinitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia.
• It reduces the symptoms of Lyme disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, yeast syndrome, fibromyalgia, athlete's foot, and jock itch.
• It helps produce substantial energy increases.
• It helps maintain proper blood pressure and improves cardiovascular health.
• It helps to kill parasites, relieves food poisoning, Candida, yeast and fungal infections.
• It helps heal skin problems, such related to psoriasis and eczema.

In all Balkan countries plus Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, olive leaf extract is extensively employed as a broad-spectrum germ killer.

Safety

Because the olive leaf is merely a bitter-tasting vegetable able to be brewed as a green tea, or eaten in green salad, ingesting it is absolutely safe. When taking olive leaf extract, the body begins to deal with dead microbes. One may experience minor irritations ¡V this is the detoxification effect, a positive sign. One might feel a little ill or develop a minor skin reaction. This occurs as invading organisms die. Dead microbes release toxins and other substances. When large quantities of dead microbes are present, the body begins a process of eliminating them. The best way to maximize the power of Olive Leaf Extract and limit any adverse reaction is to drink four cups of water in between usages. For more than minimal discomfort, one can reduce the daily intake of Olive Leaf Extract. One can even stop intake for a short time for the body to remove the toxins and dad microbes. The detoxification effect is temporary. After this, one should begin to feel substantial energy.

Note: Olive Leaf Extract has been tested and found to be safe in amounts for higher than the normal daily amount. Scientific testing indicates that amounts many times larger than the daily-recommended usage are not toxic and do not cause adverse side effects.

History

The discovery of its medicinal use happened in 1996. When the olive leaps main therapeutic components are extracted, ground into powder, packaged into capsules or tablets, and taken as a supplement, their antimicrobial effects become more potent. They kill germs fast. Cold or flu symptoms, for instance, are known to disappear within one day. If you wish to help prevent colds or flu from occurring, just make olive leaf extract a part of your daily nutritional supplementation.

Effectiveness Against Pathogens

Olive leaf extract has been shown effective against the following viruses, retroviruses, bacterium, parasites, yeasts, protozoan, fungi, molds, and other microbes and diseases as demonstrated in laboratory testing including the Paper Disk Bioassy method:

Aspergillus flavus

Aspergillus petrakii

Aspergillus ochraceus Wilhelm

Bacillus cereus

Cacillus subtilus

Corynebacterium michiganese

Coxsackievirus A21

Deoxyribonucleic acid viruses

E. cloacae NRRL B-414

E. Coli

E. tracheiphila

Encephalomyocarditis

Enterobacteraerogenes NRRL B-199

Erwinia carotovora

Geotrichum candidum

Herpesvirus (MRS)

Herpes simplex Type 2 (genital herpes)

Influenza A

Influenza A/NWS (HONI)

L. Brevis 50

Lactobacillus Plantarum

Leuconostoc Mesenteroides

Malariae

Moloney leukaemia virus

Rauscher m. leukemia

Newcastle virus

P. Solanacearum

P. lachrymans

Parainfluenza 1

Parainfluenza 2

Parainfluenza 3

Pediococcus Cerevisiae 39

Plasmodium falciparum

Polio 1

Polio 2

Polio 3

Pseudomonas virus

Rauscher leucemia virus

Reovirus 3

Rhizopus

Rhizoctonia Kuhn

Rhizoctonia solana

Ribonucleic acid virases

Salmonella Enteritidis

Salmonella typhimurium

Sindbis virus

Staphylococcus Aureus

Vaccinia

Vesicular Stomatitis

Virax

Xanthomonas Vesicatoria

Extractions From:

Walker, M. "Antimicrobial attributes of olive leaf extract," Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, July 1996, pp. 80-85.

Walker, M. Nature's Antibiotic: Olive Leaf Extract. New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1997.

The National Life Extension Research Institute. The Olive Leaf, Kent, Ohio. 1999.

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