Tea Tree Essential Oil - Helpful in cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment. This oil can be used topically to minimize and protect the body from damage caused by radiation.
Cypress Essential Oil - Rebuilds the white blood cells damaged by exposure to radiation. Also good for bleeding gums.
Lavender Essential Oil – Alleviates the pain and speeds the healing from radiation burns.
Myrtle Essential Oil – Large doses of radiation will affect the thyroid. Potassium Iodide (KI) will block the iodine during the initial attack and the fourteen days of most radiation exposure. Myrtle will help to insure that the thyroid will be working the way it should be.
Oregano Essential Oil – Very powerful essential oil that has a significant effect. (see below) This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of gamma radiation alone or in combination with oregano essential oil on the murein composition of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and on the intracellular and extracellular concentrations of ATP. The bacterial strain was treated with three radiation doses: 0.4 kGy to induce cell damage, 1.1 kGy to obtain a viable but nonculturable state, and 1.3 kGy to cause cell death. Oregano essential oil was used at 0.006 and 0.025% (wt/vol), which is the MIC. All treatments had a significant effect (P 0.05) on the murein composition, although some muropeptides did not seem to be affected by the treatment. Each treatment had a different effect on the relative percentage and number of muropeptides. There was a significant correlation (P 0.05) between the decrease in intracellular ATP and the increase in extracellular ATP following treatment of the cells with oregano oil. The reduction of intracellular ATP was even more important when oregano oil was combined with irradiation, but irradiation alone at a high dose (1.1 kGy) significantly decreased (P 0.05) the internal ATP without affecting the external ATP. Transmission electron microscopic examination revealed that oregano oil and irradiation have an effect on cell wall structure.
