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How (and when) to use
Olive Leaf Extract
Avoid travel bugs.
One of the biggest benefits of Olive
Leaf Extract is that before or during a business trip or holiday, you
can take it to prevent infection by the common types of bacteria or
virus you generally come into contact with when in crowded situations
such as aeroplanes, public transport, museums or when eating hotel or
restaurant food.
Take
between meals for the
duration of, or from a week before to a week after the travel period to raise resistance levels.
Olive leaf extract usually wards
off sickness completely or if contracted, it lowers the intensity to a
mild discomfort which passes within a few days.
One can take the
tincture in a little water or juice, or the capsules. Children who are
too young to swallow capsules, can be given their contents mixed with a
little honey.
Dosage would be
at the lower range printed on the bottle.
We recommend starting with olive
leaf a week before travelling. This is to complete any detox reaction
before your trip. See Herxheimer's reaction at the bottom of this page.
Stuck without bottled water?
You may be stuck in a situation where you can't get
bottled water or have no facilities to boil your tap water. Adding a
few drops of olive leaf extract helps to make tap water safe. It will impart a
slightly bitter taste which most people get used to and find quite
palatable.
Olive leaf extract is not guaranteed to destroy all germs so do not
drink known contaminated water with or without olive leaf extract.
However if you are stuck without water
it is better to have something to use than not.
Trials done for Herbal
Wellness International on bifidobacterium longum, a fragile beneficial gut bacterium, have shown
that our tincture does not harm it. Other tests have been done
showing that olive leaf extract does no harm to a range of lactic acid
bacteria. This is important for maintaining a healthy balance of
bacteria in the gut which is where 70% of your immunity resides. It does however cause havoc to a wide range of
"bad" bacteria, fungi
and other pathogens, preventing many viruses from
replicating in your body as well.
Add a few (3-5) drops of tincture to
a medium-sized glass of water. A few drops can even be added to bottled water
if opened and not finished within a day to keep it fresh. You can also
take it a little stronger if you have picked up a stomach bug and need
to drink fluids as well as kill the bacteria causing the problem. See
the next item for more information on this. Avoid restaurants that are too
quiet. This rather
obvious tip has helped many travellers. As a stranger in
town you are not aware of which restaurants have good or bad
reputations. If you need a quick bite to eat while on the go, or want an
evening out, choose a
busy restaurant. Their food is replenished regularly and will normally be fresh. Also ask the waiter what are the popular
dishes,
otherwise you may end up eating a heavily spiced exotic piece of fish/meat that
has been in the freezer for too long. If you do eat something
which later starts to make you feel unwell, a good dash of olive leaf
(20-30 drops for an adult, see container for children) in
quarter of a glass of water does wonders to rectify the situation.
Repeat this 3 times a day if you have an upset stomach until it clears.
The tincture is very effective for this, however if you cannot take the
taste then it can be substituted with capsules at the high end of the
dosage range stated on the container.
What about colds and 'flu?
Surprisingly, it is quite
common to come down with a cold in summer time when travelling. It is
also one of those things that can really put a damper on a packed travel
schedule.
Taking olive leaf extract before and during your travel
will prevent this 90% of the time, but if you really stretch your body
beyond its limits with little sleep, irregular and bad eating and
deplete your immune system you may catch a cold. As soon as
you feel this coming on you must increase your dosage and get back to
normal eating and sleeping times to allow for recovery.
In this situation,
immediately revert to the maximum age-related dosage of either tincture or
capsules (see container).
For a throat or chest infection or head cold tincture works the fastest and best.
To stop a sore throat or to enable sleep one can swallow 5-10 drops of
tincture without water, allowing it to coat the throat. The balance of
the dose can be taken in a little water. Although the taste is extremely
strong, if one is able to do this it works wonders in destroying the
cause of the throat infection.
If you desire,
you can take half the tincture dose and half the capsule dose, as
sometimes too much tincture taken over an extended period can start to
taste too strong. The capsules are also very effective alone in taking away a
cold.
As olive leaf extract is not a pain killer, and an infection
damages cells, you may not feel that it is working for up to three
days,
although the infection is being kept at a low level. It is essential to
keep up the dosage. You can still take pain killers that you are
accustomed to but no other antibiotics. By the fourth day normally a big
improvement is felt and one tends to forget to take your doses as you
think it is beaten. The temptation
is to continue activity as before and the infection may recur. It is
important to continue taking the larger dose for at least 3 days after
you feel well again and then resume taking the lowest dose.
Stomach bugs
It is not always
easy to identify where a stomach bug came from, especially in the case
of children. It can be picked up from raw food, water or ice and
eating with hands that have not been washed since touching bus hand
rails, door knobs in public places etc. and then eating with the hands.
The treatment is the same as for an upset stomach from eating food that
is contaminated.
Random situations
Short term or "once off" use
after a crowded bus or train ride during the 'flu season, before or
after a crowded museum visit or after eating a "suspect" meal at a
restaurant are instances where olive leaf is arguably the biggest
blessing to adults and children. The tincture absorbs immediately into
your system to support your defences and give you peace of mind.
Administer
one dose of preferably the tincture but alternatively capsules if more
to your taste. Make this dose at the higher end of the age-related
dosage on the container.
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General information
1. It is preferable to take
olive leaf extract between meals. This is because certain amino acids
reduce its effectiveness if taken simultaneously. In this way you get
the most effect out of your dose. The tincture can be taken about 1/2
hour before a meal as it is assimilated very quickly.
2. For urgent
situations, the tincture is preferable, due to its quick and complete
absorption. The capsules will take longer to dissolve and work their way
through the gut lining into your bloodstream.
3. For gut problems,
the tincture should be taken with more water (1/4 to 1/2 a glass) to get
it further down the alimentary canal. Capsules will work their way
further down to where they are needed more easily. To halve the dosage
and take both forms would be the most beneficial.
4. When feeling
nauseous, vomiting or experiencing diarrhoea, water is sometimes not
well accepted by the stomach. A few drops of olive leaf in the water
makes it more easily accepted so preventing dehydration and helping to
deal with the infection. This is in addition to your high dose of olive
leaf extract. N.B. When young children catch a tummy bug they
dehydrate very quickly. It is wise to consult a doctor if this persists
for over 8 hours. Babies should be taken even sooner if they are losing
a lot of fluid and show signs of dehydration.
5. We normally
recommend using olive leaf extract from the age of 1 year upward on
an as-needed basis and for short term prevention. This should be
followed by a good probiotic such as Kiddie-forte, also available on our
website. After 2 years of age
use olive leaf extract as needed as described above followed by
Kiddie-forte if used extensively. This is to ensure a good balance of
beneficial gut bacteria.
Adults can take olive leaf extract on an ongoing basis for
chronic conditions. It would be good practice to take an excellent
probiotic such as Intestiflora as well, also available at the the
checkout below.
6. Do not take olive leaf extract concurrently with
pharmaceutical antibiotics or other medicine. The olive leaf could theoretically attack
the antibiotic if it was a mould or fungus derivative. This would waste
the olive leaf and reduce the effect of the antibiotic.
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Some details about
Herbal Wellness International's Olive Leaf Extract.
To achieve the best
properties, Herbal Wellness International's olive leaf extract contains
a blend of a standardised high quality powdered extract (with >20%
oleuropein) combined with freshly picked raw natural olive leaves
harvested from the finest trees growing in the Cape wine lands in South Africa. This has given us consistent
and excellent results from bottle to bottle.
Our olive leaf extract
tincture is possibly the finest in the world, being some 2 to 15 times
the strength of other, often more expensive tinctures. This means that
you need far less to get results and a bottle goes a long way.
The properties discussed
above are not be applicable to all brands of olive leaf extract. The
cultivar of tree, quality of soil, season of picking and method of
processing all affect the balance of active ingredients and final quality of the product. Top quality
trees and GMP manufacturing with pharmaceutical quality control ensure
our olive leaf extract products have consistently excellent properties.
We and our customers have found that taking the ancient
olive leaf as we have described above can give your body the
means to overcome multiple health threats with amazing success .
Herxheimer's Reaction It
occasionally happens that a worsening of symptoms or mild 'flu-like
symptoms occur when starting with olive leaf extract. This is due to the
elimination of large numbers of germs in a short space of time as your body purges
their toxic remains from your system.
This is a sign that it is
working and normally lasts only 3-4 days after which the individual is
left feeling marvellously well.
If uncomfortable, reduce dosage or
discontinue use for a few days and drink plenty of water.
This only rarely happens in people
carrying a high microbial load or suffering from a Candida Albicans or
some other latent infection. It is best to get over the detox stage
before embarking on your holiday/trip so if you do need a high dose for
some reason your body has already rid itself of this microbial overload.
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Disclaimer: The information given on this site is not intended to
diagnose or cure any disease or replace your physician's advice. You
apply it at your own risk. If you are sick, consult your health care
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