Tea Tree Oil is toxic, hence its “disinfectant” effect. Tea Tree Oil was identified by Dr. Larrian Gillespie in her ground-breaking book, You Don’t Have to Live with Cystitis, as a toxin that, in her urology practice (she is now off on her “Hormone Diva” career) aggravated Urinary Tract Infections as inducing “Leaky Cell,” that is, undermining cell wall integrity. Gillespie’s great strides in kidney and bladder research–she has pioneered novel surgery that avoids debilitating butchery–are attributable in no small part to her back-engineering substances to avoid by monitoring her patients’ reactions. UTI sufferers will show symptoms within 20 minutes after exposure. Tea Tree Oil is one such substance. I would highly recommend Silver Colloid, which is pure silver electrically released into distilled water, as an absolutely non-toxic antiseptic to which no pathogen can develop a resistance. Tea Tree Oil is also found in the coating for brown cardboard boxes–I’d avoid handling those with any frequency. In short, Tea Tree Oil is a cheap coating sold at a high price as an antiseptic. Please avoid.
