A Natural Polyvalent Therapy
Emu Oil
In the last few years, research in the field of natural products made a significant progress. The pharmaceutical industry derived benefit from the discovery of numerous new molecules with biological activity, obtained from natural resources.
This publication is an endeavor to bring together all the research results and information available up to date in the scientific literature, regarding the properties and the therapeutic uses of emu oil. 157 bibliographic references including 76 patents were reviewed with the purpose to inform readers about the beneficial effects of emu oil on one’s health and to explain these effects based on its chemical composition.
The emu is a bird indigenous to Australia, belonging to the same family as the ostrich; from its fat, an oil is obtained through a process of melting and refining.
The native people of Australia, the Aboriginals, discovered thousands of years ago the benefits of emu oil and incorporated it into their culture as a valuable commodity. They used emu oil for a multitude of purposes: as a treatment for burns and arthritis, for improvement of muscular pain and as a remedy for skin ailments.
Prior to 1990 very little research had been done on the emu and its oil in the US and Australia; however today, due to ongoing interest in the latter, there are a lot of research findings on the chemical composition, the properties and the therapeutic usage of emu oil.
The book provides details about the emu, its fat and oil processing, the emu oil properties and its therapeutic uses. Moreover, it quotes numerous witnesses such as physicians, researchers and patients about the ’’miraculous’’ results of the treatment with the oil.
The uses of emu oil were classified and described as following:
- Treatment of microbial, fungal and viral infections;
- Relieve the symptoms of arthritis and fibromyalgia and of muscle and chronic pains;
- Relieve the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome;
- Reduce the bad cholesterol level;
- Treatment of burns;
- Use by diabetic patients;
- Use in dermatology and cosmetics:
- Skin hydration
- ’’Transdermis’’ treatment of scars
- Eczema
- Herpes Zoster
- Psoriasis, dermatitis, ichthyosis
- Peyronie’s Disease
- Acne, rosacea, scars
- Loss of hair, alopecia
- Use in cosmetics
- Use in formulation of topical preparations of antihistamine and anti-nausea drugs;
- Relieve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease;
- Carrier for antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral medications;
- Athletic use;
- Chiropractic use;
- Dentistry use;
- Veterinarian use;
- Preparation of formulations with multiple effects;
- Protection again insects;
- Obtaining an antiserum against poisonous venom of some snakes.
The therapeutic effects of emu oil presented in this publication for such diversified diseases might astonish some readers, but all results mentioned were described in the bibliographic references from scientific literature listed in the book.
BOOK
In Romanian
