How Emu Oil Works | Emu Oil & Blood Stream | Composition of Emu Oil | Emu Oil & Skin | Emu Oil & Arthritise

Serena DuBois, Sedro-Woolley, Washington,U.S.A.

Explore Issue: Volume 8, Number 1

OBJECTIVE, to determine the Emu Oil's ability to penetrate the stratum corneum barrier of the skin.

Could Emu oil be combined with various medicinal or cosmetic materials to take them into the bodies blood stream and could do it relatively more cheaply than costly liposomes and iontophorisis.
 
METHOD, a medical research study with Auburn University using mice for the transdermal transportation of Ketoprofen, (recently made an OTC drug and found in Actron and other products), a well known non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug.

While Ketoprofen is readily absorbed by the body, it has a number of adverse side effects in the gastrointestinal tract when taken orally, and current topical preparations are not readily absorbed by the skin. Looking to find if emu oil could be a better transporting agent, they did comparisons with various substances as carriers to find out how much Ketoprofen was found in the mouse serum H hour after the substance was spread on an area of the mouse's skin that had been clipped free of hair. They used the following combinations (seen in the first column) with the results noted in the second column:
 
RESULTS
The researchers were pleased to find that the Emu Oil, Propanol and Ketoprofen combination did more than three times as well as either the DMSO in bovine serum and Ketoprofen or the Isopropyl alcohol and Ketoprofen, particularly since Emu Oil is approved by the FDA for human use and the DMSO is not.

Since this study does prove that Emu Oil can improve absorbability of this drug and others through the skin, it will be a major boon to those suffering from arthritis, lumbago and other such diseases.

CAUTION
Emu oil was approved by the FDA for use in July of 1992 and the least we can ask is that it be pure and correctly processed.

Both anecdotal evidence and research suggest that it
does all the marvelous things that have been discussed in this article.