The Tea Tree Oil Story

History of the "healing Tea Trees" we have to start on the North Eastern coastal region of New South Wales, Australia-We then have to travel back centuries, long before Australia was "discovered" and long before scientific evidence begain, to a time when Australia belonged to its native inhabitants, the Aborigines.

These Aborigines also used the healing waters of the pools in the are which were surrounded by the trees. Fallin leaves and twigs leached their "magical" Healing liquid into the water, turning it a deep yellowish color. The Aborigines bathed and washed in this natural healing "spa" to treat any number of conditions from sore muscles to serious diseases. Maybe this is why they named the area "Bungawalbyn" in the first place. The name means "healing ground"

Tea Tree become commonly known until around 1770 when Captain Cook, along with a botanist named Joseph Banks and the crew of The endeavour, used the leaves with their distinctive aroma to brew a spicy and refreshing.

As new settlers arrived, they struggled to clear the harsh native vegetation to make way for seetlements and dairy farms. They cursed every Tea Tree for its hardy and persistent hold on its oun natural habitat. The Tea Trees tenaciously survied drought, fire, flood, and evern frost, and resisted any attempt to destroy them.

In 1930 the Medical journal of Australia published an article, "a New Australian Germicide, by Dr. E.M. humphrey. he found most encouraging was the way that the oil from the crushed leaves of the alternifolia dissolved pus and left wounds and surrounding areas clean. he tested and enthused about this great substance, highlighting Tea Tree oil as never before.

He noticed "that the germicidal action became more effective in the presence of living tissue and organic matter, without any apparent damage to healthy cells, applying to dirty wounds, and infection in the nails.

He urged the dental industry, properties for infections of the day of the gum and mouth. Two drops of Tea Tree oil in a tumbler of warm water made it a soothing and therapeutic garle for sore throats in the early stage.

That is "was an immediate deodorizing medium on foul-smelling wounds and pus-filled adscesses. and 'if it was added to hand soap it would make the soap up to sixty times more effective against Thphoid bacilli than the so-called 'disinfectant soaps.

The scientific and Medical worlds were intrigued. More research was funded and articles began appearing in additional publications such as the Australian Journal of Pharmacy and the Australian Journal od Dentistry. world-wide appetites were whetted. Articles were presented and published in the Journal of the Nation medical Association (USA) and the british medical journal.

Here is a aricle from the Australian Goverment

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