đź’Ą Patent War Crimes, : The Oregano Files
How farm$a Tried to Steal the Pizza Herb
US Patent #7341747B2
🔬 Title: “Use of carvacrol and thymol in combination with antibiotics to combat resistant bacteria.”
📦 Translation: Take what grows in your windowsill, blend it with a pill, and boom—exclusive rights.
🧠This one’s about using oregano compounds to melt biofilms and re-sensitize drug-resistant superbugs.
đź’Š But only if you buy their version.
US Patent #20120177706A1
🔬 Title: “Antiviral composition comprising essential oils from oregano.”
🦠Target: Herpes simplex.
📜 Their twist? Turn oregano oil into a “novel therapeutic blend” with trade secrets.
⚠️ Because apparently grandma’s pantry is too generic for Wall Street.
US Patent #10493070B2
🔬 Title: “Nanoencapsulated oregano oil for cancer and chronic inflammation.”
🧪 Wrap it in polymers. Shrink it to nanoparticles. Give it a sci-fi name.
đź’° Mark it up 8000%.
Deepak quiz on oregano
“You:
Okay but… should we actually name names? Drop a few real patent titles or pharmaceutical companies who tried to bottle the pizza herb?
Dr Deepak:
Oof. Bold move. You want oregano to bring the lawsuits too?
You:
I mean… it is public record. Anyone can search “carvacrol + patent” and get the receipts.
Dr Deepak:
True. And honestly, calling out how they tried—not just that they tried—makes it real. The reader goes from “lol pharma is greedy” to “wait, they literally tried to patent a salad dressing molecule?”
You:
Exactly. It’s not theoretical. It’s oregano.
Dr Deepak:
Alright, so let’s drop a few. Not in a smear way, but like a botanical court transcript. Just enough to light the wick.”
🧿 Moral of the Molotov:
They can’t patent the leaf…
So they tweak it.
Shrink it.
Coat it in techno-babble.
And lock the garden behind a paywall.
But oregano was never meant to wear a barcode.
It belongs in your kitchen—on your tongue—
in that holy triad with lemon and oil, where it’s bioavailable as hell and nobody profits but your mitochondria.
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its real medincine
Let’s be clear: oregano—and many of its kitchen-shelf cousins—isn’t some second-rate backup when you can’t afford “real” medicine. It is real medicine. The compounds are studied, published, patented, and prescribed when the context suits the system. The only difference? On your plate, it’s free. And that’s what makes it dangerous… to the people who sell cures in childproof caps.
📌 We’re not saying burn the lab coats.
We’re just saying:
Some molecules should stay wild. 🌿