Wild oregano oil or Origaum Vulgare is a natural herb with amazing antibiotic properties is being talked about on the internet as a natural alternative to regular medicine. Oregano has an aromatic, warm and slightly bitter taste. It varies in intensity; good quality is so strong that it almost numbs the tongue, but the cultivars adapted to colder climates have often unsatisfactory flavour. The influence of climate, season and soil on the composition of the essential oil is greater than the difference between the various species. The related species Origanum onites (Greece, Asia Minor) and O. heracleoticum (Italy, Balkan peninsula, West Asia) have similar flavours.

The oil is derived from a unique species of plant that grows wild throughout the world. The oregano is rich in essential oil and is processed in a special type of distillation. This procedure ensures minimal alteration of the active ingredients and the curative properties are preserved. The result is an amber coloured liquid which has a powerful and hot tasting flavour. Its odour is similar to camphor. It takes 200 pounds of herb to produce 2 pounds of oil. It is difficult and expensive to produce. What you find in health food stores is not a medicinal grade of oregano.

Since antiquity, wild oregano has been relied upon as a therapeutic herb. Few people realize that it was used in ancient times as more of a medicine than a food. About 3000 B.C. the Babylonians described it as a cure for lung and cardiac disease. They also used it for wound healing and curing venomous bites. The ancient Greeks considered it their favourite medicinal herb and gave it its name, "oroganos", which means delight of the mountains. They used it for healing wounds, killing infections and reversing lung and cardiac disorders.

Although modern science has verified the broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity of oregano oil, oregano has been used for medicine and food preservation for thousands of years. According to oregano expert Dr. Cass Ingram, ancient Greek physicians routinely used oregano to treat a myriad of conditions, including open wounds, lung disorders, venomous bites and narcotic poisoning. When Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages, its doctors used oregano and its oil to treat germ diseases. Powdered wild oregano was then used as a food preservative, keeping unrefrigerated vegetables unspoiled for up to two weeks. Medieval Europeans used wild oregano to prevent milk spoilage. In the 1600s British herbalist Gerard promoted oregano as the ideal treatment for head colds.1
English physicians, who led the Western world in herbalism, were major fans of oregano oil. Salmon's Herbal, written in the 1600s, is a good example of this leadership. In the book, oregano oil is highly touted; it is recommended for chest, menstrual, uterine, lung and digestive complaints. Specifically, its use against diarrhea, asthma, colds, infections of the female sexual organs, as well as uterine tumors, is mentioned. Additionally, its value against liver disorders is emphasized. Gerard, the 17th century British herbalist, described the oil of oregano as a complete cure for digestive complaints and head colds. William Langham, in Garden of Health (1633), described an even wider range of uses, his list including such diverse conditions as bladder trouble, bleeding, heart failure, head pain, itchy skin, mouth pain, freckles or spots on the skin, stomachache, intestinal worms, and toothache. Thus, it has always been relied upon as an emergency medicine. The ancient emphasis upon the germ killing powers of this spice is confirmed by modern research. Greek researchers in 1995 at the University of Thessoloniki found that a 1-to-4,000 dilution of fresh wild oil of oregano sterilized septic water. This is further edified by research at Cornell University, which found that of all natural substances evaluated, oregano was one of the few that killed all germs against which it was tested. Some 30 different germs succumbed to its antiseptic powers. Italian researchers repeated this work, finding that of some 40 herbs, oregano oil was the most effective bacterial killer.

In today’s toxic environment with  free radicals and chemicals  just about everywhere we don’t know what harm our bodies  are going through with chemicals in everyday living such as food and most importantly prescription drugs many people are going back to nature for help. Oregano oil is been talked about more and more for its high antibiotic properties that many studies have taken place to  see if wild oregano oil can be effective as it  seems.
The results are amazing, oregano oils was effective  against many common bugs such  as  Candida albicans (yeast), E. coli, Salmonella enterica and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other studies shows oregano oil is more  effective  against the mrsa bug than 18 types of antibiotics.Oregano oil has  a  antibiotic chemical in the herb called carvacrol which has  antibiotic properties which fights bugs and the most  amazing part is the bugs can never become resistant  to oregano oil as other prescribed  drugs do become resistant against certain bug.

So the oregano story started many years ago in helping people in the days when people never had antibiotics and science   are turning back to the same herb in the 21st century to help against the same infections it just proves there will be many herbs in nature either forgotten about never found that could help us not rely to much on regular pharmaceutical drugs.