Here is an excerpt from the following web page about lice. I found a strong tea tree oil shampoo (Herbal Melaleuca) to be effective against the adults, so would eventually get all the eggs as well as they hatched if used for every shampoo. Aniseed or oregano essential oil is supposed to kill adults and eggs and can be mixed in some oil and applied to the whole head. A lice comb to get out the nits glued to the hairs is needed as well.
Nancy www.wingedseed.com/Agora/Lice_page.htm "Not all the oils were tested at the same time. Oregano had 100% mortality with both eggs and adults when dissolved in alcohol, and so did aniseed and cinnamon leaf, thought the control mortality for the egg results in the last two oils was abnormally high. Red thyme had 84% mortality with adults and 92% with eggs, though it was in the same batch as aniseed and cinnamon so the egg results may not be accurate. Tea tree had 93% adult mortality and 83% egg mortality. A rinse was used in all cases. The rinse by itself is ineffective. I also tested some of the oils in water rather than alcohol, and found that aniseed still killed 100% of the adults and eggs, and oregano killed 99.3% of eggs and 100% of adults. Red thyme killed all the adults but only 51% of eggs; tea tree killed 94% of adults and 59% of eggs, and cinnamon leaf killed 86% of adults but only 26% of eggs." -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
