OregaHemp combines two ancient herbs of Healing. Our Oil of Oregano is grown in the pristine Mediterranean Alpine meadows of Southwestern Turkey. It is comprised of the highest natural carvacrol (Active ingredient) available at 86 percent. Our Certified Organic Hemp Seed Oil is harvested from the fertile soils of Northern Manitoba.

This combination offers the optimum Oil of Oregano formula available to consumers.

It seems there is a lot of confusion about the different types of Oil of Oregano. We hope to clear this up. Oregano is in the Labiatea family, (mint) and closely related to basil and marjoram. This is according to one of the leading publications on horticulture, "The Hortus Third Edition", published by Cornell University. According to our distributor in the Middle East, the horticultural species is Orgianum. Generally speaking, Compactum is typically an oregano plant that has pale green oval shaped leaves and grows to approximately 30 cms in height; it has a sweet and spicy flavor. This type of oregano is generally grown on the west part of the Aegean coast of Turkey.

This plant is most acceptable as a kitchen herb. The oil extracted is parallel with marjoram, which is in the same family. Carvacrol, (which is the active ingredient making it’s antiseptic properties), levels vary, but are said not to be higher than 60% depending on the harvest, location and distillation methods. The Vulgare on the other hand is the family name given to those plants that have dark green small leaves on the top as well as on the stem of the plant. The flower is much sharper and potent. Grows up to 3000 meters and grows mainly on the south coast of Turkey.

Carvacrol has remarkable effects against all types of microbes such as bacteria, virus, fungus and parasites. Synthetic phenol, also known as carbolic acid, a strong antiseptic, was for much of the 20th century the standard by which all other antiseptics were measured. Yet research shows the “killing action” of naturally occuring carvacrol is superior to phenol -- it is unmatched in its antimicrobial actions. For example, in 1994, a scientific team at the National Institute of Pediatrics in Mexico published research showing that oregano had superior killing effects on giardia, a protozoan creating distressing bowel infections. Oregano tested superior even to tinidazol, the drug commonly used to treat giardia infections.

It takes 100 lbs. of oregano plants to make 1 lb. of the essential oil of wild oregano. This concentrated natural oil is very powerful. The oil of oregano contains over 50 compounds which possess antimicrobial actions, although carvacrol is the main one. In addition, the oil of oregano has excellent antioxidant properties, notably labiatic and p-hydroxy-hydrocaffeic acid.

Joy Of The Mountains

So remarkable are the healing effects of oregano (the true species), that for centuries the Greeks and Romans made extensive use of this herb, especially for infections. Oregano is derived from a Grecian word, meaning “the joy of the mountains.”

Benefits of Oil of Oregano

Oil of Oregano has been shown to have beneficial properties for the following conditions: digestion, parasites, depression, flu, constipation, rashes, brain fog, lung fungus, toe and fingernail fungus, head lice, aching joints and muscles, warts, athlete’s foot, eczema, flu, headaches, toothaches, ear infection, fevers, allergies, burns, bleeding, fatigue, arthritis, sprains, back pain, colds, when sprayed, cleans air, kills bugs on plants, kills fleas, lyme disease, canker sores, gastrointestinal/colitis/diarrhea, e.coli and try it for what ever else bothers you. Attributes have yet to be explored.

"These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response. In the old country the peasants ate hemp butter. They were more resistant to disease then nobility. The higher classes wouldn't eat hemp because the poor ate it."
-R Hamilton, ED.D., Phd. Medical Researcher- Biochemist UCLA. Emeritus

LA and LNA possess a slightly negative charge and have a tendency to form thin surface layers This property is called surface activity, and it provides the power to carry substances like toxins to the surface of the skin, intestinal tract, kidneys and lungs where they can be removed.

Their very sensitivity causes them to break down very rapidly into toxic compounds when refined with high heat or improper storage exposes them to light or air.

Nature provides seeds with an outer shell that safely protects the vital oils and vitamins within from spoilage. It's a perfect as well as perfectly edible container. Hempseed can be ground into a paste similar to peanut butter only more delicate in flavour. Udo Erasmus, Ph.D. nutritionist says: "hemp butter puts our peanut butter to shame for nutritional value. The ground seeds can be baked into breads, cakes and casseroles. Hempseed makes a hearty addition to granola bars."

Pioneers in the fields at chemistry and human nutrition now believe cardiovascular disease (CYD) and most cancers are really disease of fatty degeneration caused by the continued over-consumption of saturated fats and refined vegetable oils that turn essential fatty acids into carcinogenic killers. One out of four Americans will die from cancer. Researchers believe cancers erupt when immune system response is weakened.

More Americans are succumbing to immune deficiency disease than ever before. Promising studies are now under way using the essential oils to support the immune systems of KIV virus patients.

The complete protein in hempseed gives the body all the essential amino acids required to maintain health, and provides the necessary kinds and amounts of amino acids the body needs to make human serum albumin serum globulins antibodies.

The body's ability to resist and recover from illness depends upon how rapidly it can produce massive amounts of antibody to fend of the initial attack. If the globulin protein starting material is in short supply the army of antibodies may be to small to prevent the symptoms of sickness from setting in. The best way to ensure the body enough amino acid material to make the globulins is to eat foods high in globulin proteins. Hempseed protein is 65% globulin edestin plus quantities of albumin (present in all seeds) so its easily digestible protein is readily available in a form quite similar to that found in blood plasma.

"Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away. "
-(Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study.1955.)

The energy of life is in the whole seed. Hempseed foods taste great and will insure we get enough essential amino acids and essential fatty acids to build a strong bodies and immune systems, and to maintain health and vitality.

Therapeutic Hemp Oil
(Excerpted from Therapeutic Hemp Oil by: Andrew Weil, M.D.)

The nutritional composition of oil from the marijuana plant could be beneficial to your health. To most people, Cannabis sativa is synonymous with marijuana, but the plant's Latin name means the "useful hemp." Species designated sativa (useful) are usually among the most important of all crops. In fact, the utility of hemp is manifold: the plant has provided human beings with fiber, edible seeds, an edible oil, and medicine, not just a notorious mind-altering drug.

In our part of the world, these other uses of hemp are no longer familiar. We rarely use hemp fiber and know little about hemp medicine. (Some cancer patients have found it to be a superior remedy for the nausea caused by chemotherapy, and some people with multiple sclerosis are grateful for its relaxant effects on spastic muscles.) Hemp seed is sometimes an ingredient in bird food; otherwise, edible products from Cannabis sativa are virtually unknown.

Hemp seeds contain 25% high quality protein and 40% fat in the form of an excellent quality oil. Hemp oil is just now coming on the market. It has a remarkable fatty acid profile, being high in the desirable omega-3s and also delivering some GLA (gamma-linolenic acid) that is absent from the fats we normally eat. Nutritionally oriented doctors believe all of these compounds to be beneficial to health.

Like flax oil, hemp oil should be stored in the refrigerator, used quickly, and never heated. Unlike flax oil, hemp oil also provides 1.7% gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). There is controversy about the value of adding this fatty acid to the diet, but many people take supplements of it in the form of capsules of evening primrose oil, black currant oil, and borage oil. It simulates growth of hair and nails, improves the health of the skin, and can reduce inflammation. It also supplies both omega-3s and GLA, without the need to take more capsules.

One of the questions that people are sure to ask about hemp oil is whether it has any psychoactivity. The answer is no. The intoxicating properties of Cannabis sativa reside in a sticky resin produced most abundantly in the flowering tops of female plants before the seeds mature. The main psychoactive compound in this resin is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Strains of hemp grown for oil production have a low resin content to begin with, and by the time the seeds are ready for harvest, resin production has dropped even further. Finally, the seeds must be cleaned and washed before they are pressed. As a result, no THC is found in the final product.