In this age doctors prescribe antibiotics for killing infectious bacteria but these are also destroying commensurate bacteria. There are few studies looking into this.
But what about antimicrobial herbs? (Especially the likes of the berberine containing herbs.) Do these also destroy our commensurate bacteria? Logic would say yes probably, although over time these bacteria may have developed resistance to the various herbs used for treating microbial infections.
I've done quite a number of searches but found nothing. Does anyone have any pointers to finding papers that deal with this topic?
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Yes I was aware of the microbial diversity in the GUT and that our cells are outnumbered 10 to 1 by these bacteria but I had not yet read this paper.
Due to the lack of other response, I'm guessing no-one has done this kind of study on either antibiotics or herbs killing comensurate bacteria.
Thanks
Jacob
Yes there are some studies that look different food habits and its impact on the Microbiota. There are some studies also specifically looked the antibiotic properties and its effect on microbiota
Thanks, by rephrasing my search I did find some on antibiotics but still none for herbs.
Regards Jacob
Dear Jacob,
I hope this can be of assistance to you: We are working a database covering experimental antimicrobials (including herbs and other plant extracts) The search engine will be improved in the future, but for now I would suggest to search for 'extract' or for the plant of your interest. There are links to the research papers in there, so this could assist in finding information on the herbs you need.
https://www.researchant.org/search.html
All the best,
Rob
Nice "Idea" but not very helpful to me at the moment. I don't know what micro-organisms I'm looking at. There are, after all, 1000+ species in the gut.
I have however, bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks.
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