Testing Essential Oils' Ability to Kill Common Cold Viruses
Jenn Hoskins
8th May, 2024
Image Source: Natural Science News, 2024
Key Findings
- In a University of Bari Aldo Moro study, only lemon balm essential oil reduced a norovirus surrogate's viral load
- Thyme, rosemary, and sage essential oils did not significantly lower the virus levels under tested conditions
- Lemon balm oil achieved more than a 50% reduction in infectious virus particles after 10 minutes of exposure
References
Main Study
1) Assessing the virucidal activity of essential oils against feline calicivirus, a non-enveloped virus used as surrogate of norovirus.
Published 15th May, 2024 (future Journal edition)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30492
Related Studies
2) Norovirus gastroenteritis.
Journal: Current infectious disease reports, Issue: Vol 9, Issue 2, Mar 2007
3) Incidence of Norovirus and Other Viral Pathogens That Cause Acute Gastroenteritis (AGE) among Kaiser Permanente Member Populations in the United States, 2012-2013.
4) Optimization of methods for detecting norovirus on various fruit.