Essential Oils | Footcare With Tea Tree Oil

Tea Tree Oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) is easy to use as a Pure Essential Oil or as a blend with the Essential Oil of Lemon (Citrus limonum). Individual patients can use small bottles (eg 10ml) which are inexpensive, long-lasting, and sufficient to demonstrate effectiveness on a variety of conditions. Larger bottles such as 100ml are useful for surgery use. What follows is a very brief summary of uses, but this page is being developed and constantly added to as we persuade increasing numbers of users to contribute. You are invited to submit reports of your own experiences to us. Tea Tree Oil used as the Pure Essential Oil has been shown in laboratory in vitro testing to be very effective against the micro-organisms that are responsible for causing fungal nail infections and athlete's foot. Sure enough, when used on individual patients with these conditions, it can be very useful...
	For Fungal Nail Infections: Pure Tea Tree Oil can be be simply dripped on to the affected areas, or wiped on with tissue or cotton buds. (Bottles with brushes are not recommended for reasons explained under Tea Tree Safety). Some patients may complain that adjacent skin is affected by regular, constant use, but they can achieve some protection using something such as vaseline or clear nail varnish - applying the varnish as a protection to the skin whilst leaving the nail exposed to the oil! One thing of vital importance to remember is that the length of time required for healthy nail to grow through (6-18 months) can discourage patients and cause them to stop treatment too early. Caution them about this and explain that patience will be rewarded! For Athlete's Foot: Again, Pure Tea Tree Oil can be applied - directly to the skin in obviously affected areas and beyond. Where the skin is broken, this can cause discomfort, so we would suggest using a cream with a high Tea Tree Oil content until sufficient skin integrity means that the pure oil can be used without fear. After that, progress should be rapid. Because of the persistence of infectious organisms in clothing etc, we would recommend that a powder with a low dose of Tea Tree is useful as a long term preventative... So, Cream with Tea Tree to start with if the skin is broken, neat Tea Tree Oil to combat the infection, and a Tea Tree Powder for long term hygiene. And now for the contentious one! Verrucas: These are caused by a viral infection, and there are several different kinds. To claim that a cheap, natural remedy can cure a viral infection would be quite outrageous, wouldn't it? Well try it for yourself in the form of a Lemon & Tea Tree Blend. Again, apply it neat to the affected area and rub in using a tissue or cotton wool. Twice per day after washing. Some verrucas don't respond, but the majority do... Are the big pharmaceutical companies ignoring this as a cure for viral infections? Of course not. But they can't get any financial returns for success using the natural oil so they will spend years trying to find a single ingredient of this complex natural mixture so that they can isolate it, modify it, then apply for a patent. Read Tea Tree And The Law if you don't understand the issues... And in the mean time, just get on with using it and curing verrucas!!!
Don't forget: record your results, be proud, and publish them where everyone else can see them. Send in your results and we will publish them on this website for you. (Anonymously, if you insist.) Just go to the Contact Us About Tea Tree page, and send us an email with Subject: Tea Tree. Top of Page If you would like to comment on any of the content about Tea Tree, or about Essential Oils, or If you would like to receive our free email Newsletter please Contact Us About Tea Tree *Or go to* *http://grumpyoldwebsites.blogspot.com* *Leave a comment for all to see. Even get an immediate response!*

Tea Tree Oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) is easy to use as a Pure Essential Oil or as a blend with the Essential Oil of Lemon (Citrus limonum). Individual patients can use small bottles (eg 10ml) which are inexpensive, long-lasting, and sufficient to demonstrate effectiveness on a variety of conditions. Larger bottles such as 100ml are useful for surgery use.

What follows is a very brief summary of uses, but this page is being developed and constantly added to as we persuade increasing numbers of users to contribute. You are invited to submit reports of your own experiences to us.

Tea Tree Oil used as the Pure Essential Oil has been shown in laboratory in vitro testing to be very effective against the micro-organisms that are responsible for causing fungal nail infections and athlete's foot. Sure enough, when used on individual patients with these conditions, it can be very useful...

For Fungal Nail Infections:

Pure Tea Tree Oil can be be simply dripped on to the affected areas, or wiped on with tissue or cotton buds.
(Bottles with brushes are not recommended for reasons explained under Tea Tree Safety).
Some patients may complain that adjacent skin is affected by regular, constant use, but they can achieve some protection using something such as vaseline or clear nail varnish - applying the varnish as a protection to the skin whilst leaving the nail exposed to the oil!
One thing of vital importance to remember is that the length of time required for healthy nail to grow through (6-18 months) can discourage patients and cause them to stop treatment too early. Caution them about this and explain that patience will be rewarded!

For Athlete's Foot:

Again, Pure Tea Tree Oil can be applied - directly to the skin in obviously affected areas and beyond.
Where the skin is broken, this can cause discomfort, so we would suggest using a cream with a high Tea Tree Oil content until sufficient skin integrity means that the pure oil can be used without fear. After that, progress should be rapid.
Because of the persistence of infectious organisms in clothing etc, we would recommend that a powder with a low dose of Tea Tree is useful as a long term preventative...
So, Cream with Tea Tree to start with if the skin is broken, neat Tea Tree Oil to combat the infection, and a Tea Tree Powder for long term hygiene.

And now for the contentious one!

Verrucas:

These are caused by a viral infection, and there are several different kinds.
To claim that a cheap, natural remedy can cure a viral infection would be quite outrageous, wouldn't it? Well try it for yourself in the form of a Lemon & Tea Tree Blend. Again, apply it neat to the affected area and rub in using a tissue or cotton wool. Twice per day after washing. Some verrucas don't respond, but the majority do...
Are the big pharmaceutical companies ignoring this as a cure for viral infections? Of course not. But they can't get any financial returns for success using the natural oil so they will spend years trying to find a single ingredient of this complex natural mixture so that they can isolate it, modify it, then apply for a patent. Read Tea Tree And The Law if you don't understand the issues... And in the mean time, just get on with using it and curing verrucas!!!

Don't forget: record your results, be proud, and publish them where everyone else can see them. Send in your results and we will publish them on this website for you. (Anonymously, if you insist.) Just go to the Contact Us About Tea Tree page, and send us an email with Subject: Tea Tree.

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If you would like to comment on any of the content about Tea Tree, or about Essential Oils, or
If you would like to receive our free email Newsletter please Contact Us About Tea Tree

Or go to http://grumpyoldwebsites.blogspot.com
Leave a comment for all to see. Even get an immediate response!