Post by Admin/ Traveler on Dec 23, 2017 19:54:35 GMT
Antibiotic Herbs Interfere with Bacteria Quorum Sensing
"The ability of antibiotic herbal medicines to inhibit bacterial infections without producing antibiotic resistance may now be better explained. Turns out these antibiotic herbs block the ability of microbes to utilize their quorum sensing capacities."
"Why medicinal herbs don’t become antibiotic resistant
Why don’t bacteria develop resistance to many antibiotic herbs as they do against pharmaceutical antibiotics? This issue often presents more than a curiosity for many scientists.
We have responded that one of the factors relates to the reality that plants are living organisms just as bacteria are. Because plants are alive, they are constantly developing new combinations of phytochemicals that inhibit the growth of bacteria.
And we do find that over time, plants evolve in their production of biochemicals, depending on their environment. For example, we find that plants that grow in a particular location will produce a unique combination of biochemicals that happen to inhibit the microorganisms that surround it in this location.
But this alone doesn’t provide the entire answer for why those microbes don’t develop a resistance to whatever biochemical combinations the plant may produce.
Enter the prospect of herbs’ interfering with microbes’ quorum sensing abilities.
What is quorum sensing?
Quorum sensing is the method that microorganisms use to communicate. Microorganisms utilize quorum sensing to communicate with each other and the colony as a whole. Communications range from external environmental factors, threats, and survival to other factors regarding sustaining the life of the colony."
"Quorum sensing is what bacteria do to serve the same purposes. The communication system of quorum sensing is most known to exist between individual microorganisms and the larger colony of microbes that surround it. A colony that grows will typically grow as a result of positive quorum sensing. The microbes will be communicating with the rest of the colony regarding their ability to eat and grow in the current environment."
"The ability of antibiotic herbal medicines to inhibit bacterial infections without producing antibiotic resistance may now be better explained. Turns out these antibiotic herbs block the ability of microbes to utilize their quorum sensing capacities."
"Why medicinal herbs don’t become antibiotic resistant
Why don’t bacteria develop resistance to many antibiotic herbs as they do against pharmaceutical antibiotics? This issue often presents more than a curiosity for many scientists.
We have responded that one of the factors relates to the reality that plants are living organisms just as bacteria are. Because plants are alive, they are constantly developing new combinations of phytochemicals that inhibit the growth of bacteria.
And we do find that over time, plants evolve in their production of biochemicals, depending on their environment. For example, we find that plants that grow in a particular location will produce a unique combination of biochemicals that happen to inhibit the microorganisms that surround it in this location.
But this alone doesn’t provide the entire answer for why those microbes don’t develop a resistance to whatever biochemical combinations the plant may produce.
Enter the prospect of herbs’ interfering with microbes’ quorum sensing abilities.
What is quorum sensing?
Quorum sensing is the method that microorganisms use to communicate. Microorganisms utilize quorum sensing to communicate with each other and the colony as a whole. Communications range from external environmental factors, threats, and survival to other factors regarding sustaining the life of the colony."
"Quorum sensing is what bacteria do to serve the same purposes. The communication system of quorum sensing is most known to exist between individual microorganisms and the larger colony of microbes that surround it. A colony that grows will typically grow as a result of positive quorum sensing. The microbes will be communicating with the rest of the colony regarding their ability to eat and grow in the current environment."