" THE TEA-KETTLE POLICY IN CHOLERA." To The Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Anent Dr. A. Mitra's assertion in the March number of The Indian Medical Gazette page 119, col. 2, para. 3, I have to say, that the use of boiling water and the theory thereto is not the learned doctor's innovation but was known to the Hindus and Hindu physicians long before the Christian era. Hindu Medical auth...

In vitro studies show that tea tree oil is capable of killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a laboratory setting. This review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was undertaken to find out whether it is effective at eradicating MRSA colonization compared to standard mupirocin-based regimens in colonized patients. A wide range of databases and internet sources were sea...

Dear Sir, We read the excellent short review article of Higgins et al. (1) on contact allergy to and the safety of eucalyptus oil with great interest. Having recently finished writing a full literature review of contact allergy to and the chemical composition of essential oils (2), we would like to give some additional information on eucalyptus oil. Also, we will address the question raised by ...

Incubation of synthetic 12-hydroxy-(3Z)-dodecenal (3ZHD) with tea chloroplasts revealed that 12-hydroxy-(2£)-dodecenal (2EHD) was the product of isomerization reaction of 3ZHD during the incubation. The isomerization was caused also by incubation of 3ZHD with the heat-inactivated chloroplasts. The isomerization activity was extracted with hot ethanol. These results indicate that the isomerizati...

Microorganisms are ubiquitous in every habitat on earth. Some can be pathogenic and the need for controlling them is a topic of immense research. Tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) is known to have antibacterial effects and in this experiment we tested its abilities to control the growth of five bacteria Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Micrococcus roseus, Sarcina luteus, and Serratia ma...

Sir, The increasing resistance of head lice to established insecticides means that patients and parents are seeking alternative effective treatments (1). Essential oils, including tea tree oil and Biz Niz, are promoted as treatments for head lice by alternative medicine therapists. Tea tree oil is the essential oil steam distilled from the leaves and terminal branches of tea trees, in particula...

The essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. The mechanisms of action of tea tree oil and three of its components, 1,8-cineole, terpinen-4-ol, and alpha-terpineol, against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 9144 were investigated. Treatment with these agents at their MICs and two times their MICs, particularly treatment with terpinen-4-ol and alpha-t...

BACKGROUND Demodex may cause chronic and refractory blepharitis with associated ocular surface problems, and its diagnosis and treatment can be quite challenging. In this study, our aim was to assess the efficacy of tea tree oil in Demodex treatment on caucasian patients in an industrialized region of Turkey, and to develop a systematic scoring system for extremely accurate diagnosis in the abs...

This study was conducted to determine the frequencies at which single-step mutants resistant to tea tree oil and rifampicin occurred amongst the Gram-positive organisms Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus faecalis. For tea tree oil, resistance frequencies were very low at <10(-9). Single-step mutants resistant to tea tree oil were undetectable at two times the min...

The study of the sensitivity to tea tree oil (Australian Company TTD International Pty. Ltd. Sydney) was carried out on 193 strains of anaerobic bacteria isolated from patients with various infections within the oral cavity and respiratory tracts. The susceptibility (MIC) of anaerobes was determined by means of plate dilution technique in Brucella agar supplemented with 5% defibrinated sheep bl...