01/19/2024
Herb of the week highlight
OREGANO
I have a fresh small batch of 100% Organic Oil of Oregano for sale $20 a bottle.
What is so special about Oregano?
Oregano is a proven super "functional food”, for its nutritional, antioxidant, and disease-preventing properties. It has an excellent nutritional profile; just 100g of oregano herb provides:
Dietary fiber- 112% (Percent of RDA) (RDA-Recommended daily allowance).
Folates- 59%
Pyridoxine- 80%
Vitamin-C- 4%
Vitamin-A-57%
Vitamin-K- 518%
Iron- 460%
Manganese-203%
Carotene-ß- 1007 µg
Oregano contains an impressive list of plant-derived chemical compounds that are known to have disease-preventing and health-promoting properties.
The herb parts contain no cholesterol; however, are a rich source of dietary fiber, which helps to control blood cholesterol levels.
Oregano contains health benefiting essential oils such as carvacrol, thymol, limonene, pinene, ocimene, and caryophyllene.
Its leaves and the flowering stem have antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogues (empties gallbladder collection of bile juice), diaphoretic (sweat production), expectorant, stimulant, and mildly tonic properties. Its decoction is taken by mouth for the treatment of colds, influenza, mild fevers, indigestion, stomach upsets, and painful menstruation conditions.
Thymol a compound in oregano has been shown in studies to have strong antibacterial and antifungal properties is also been found to have antibacterial.
The herb is rich in polyphenolic flavonoid antioxidants (vitamin A, carotenes, lutein, zeaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin) and has been rated as one of the plant sources with highest antioxidant activities. These compounds help act as protective scavengers against oxygen-derived free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that play a role in aging and various disease processes.
The active principles in the herb may improve gut motility, besides, increasing the digestion power by facilitating copious secretion of gastrointestinal juices.
This marvelous herb is an excellent source of minerals like potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, and magnesium.
Potassium is an important component of cells and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure caused by high sodium.
The human body utilizes manganese as co-factors for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron helps prevent anemia.
Magnesium and calcium are essential minerals for bone metabolism.
