Lavender the fungi killer

Fragrant kills
Lavender can be anything other than just smells good. In laboratory experiments have distilled lavender oil: proved to be an effective fungi killer.

Professor Lígia Salgueiro from the University of Coimbra in Portugal used for his experiments of lavender oil from Lavandula viridis L'Hér, which grows in southern Portugal. Lavender oil was poured into petri dishes with cultures of mushrooms among other Candida-species, which grows naturally in and on our bodies, as well as dermatophytes, there is a kind of mold, which can cause, among other things, foot and nail fungus. And here showed lavender oil as an effective fungi killer.

Now that's good news for people with fungal infections, for other effective antifungal drugs can have unwanted side effects including abdominal pain, vomiting, and nausea. These might be avoided if we can develop a treatment for fungus based on lavender oil.

Lavender oil makes the cabbage on the mushrooms by breaking down cell walls, and thus die the fungus. But there is a long way from the successful experiment in a petri dish, for that one can begin to use lavender oil to combat fungal infections in humans. The next step is to test on animals, how lavender oil works on living organisms with a fungal infection.