Oregano : The Amazing Culinary Herb With Multiple Health Benefits in Livestock and Poultry

There are many species of oregano. Origanum vulgare is a hardy, aromatic, bushy perennial with rose-purple, sometimes pink to white flowers. It is a European native, where it is commonly called White Marjoram.

Oregano has been highly prized for its folk and culinary uses. It is particularly used in Italian and Greek cuisine. It is the leaves that are used in cooking, and the dried herb is often more flavorful than the fresh.

Oregano is often used in tomato sauces, with fried vegetables, and grilled meat. With basil, oregano contributes much to the distinctive character of many Italian dishes. It also combines nicely with pickled olives, capers, and lovage leaves. Unlike most Italian herbs, oregano works with hot and spicy food, which is popular in southern Italy.

Oregano is an indispensable ingredient for Greek cuisine. It adds flavor to Greek salad and is usually used separately or added to the lemon-olive oil sauce that accompanies many fish or meat barbecues and some casseroles.

FEATURES AND HEALTH BENEFITS
Oregano has an aromatic, warm, and slightly bitter taste. It varies in intensity; good quality is so strong that it almost numbs the tongue. But the cultivars adapted to colder climates often have unsatisfactory flavor. The influence of climate, season and soil on the composition of the essential oil is greater than the difference between various species.

Oregano is high in antioxidant activity due to a high content of phenolic acids and flavonoids. It has also demonstrated antimicrobial activity against food-borne pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes. Both of these characteristics may be useful in both health and food preservation.

In the Philippines, oregano (Coleus aromaticus) is not commonly used for cooking but is rather considered as primarily medicinal plant, useful for relieving children’s coughs.

Main constituents include carvacrol, thymol, limonene, pinene, ocimene, and caryophyllene. The leaves and flowering stems are strongly antiseptic (discourages the growth of microorganisms), antispasmodic (prevents muscle spasms), carminative (prevents or relieves flatulence or gas in the gastrointestinal tract and, in infants, may help in the treatment of colic), expectorant (bring up mucus and other material from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea), stimulant, and mildly tonic (improves health).

Aqueous extracts, capsules, or oil extracts of oregano are taken by mouth for the treatment of colds, influenza, mild fever, fungal infections, indigestion, stomach upsets, enteric parasites, and painful menstruation. It is strongly sedative and should not be taken in large doses, though mild teas have a soothing effect and aid restful sleep. Used topically, oregano is one of the best antiseptics because of its high thymol content.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, used oregano as an antiseptic as well as a cure for stomach and respiratory ailments. A Cretan oregano (O. dictamnus) is still used today in Greece to soothe a sore throat.

Himalayan oregano has recently been found to have extremely effective properties against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), showing a higher effectiveness than 18 currently used drugs.

INTRODUCING DOSTO-OIL BASED PRODUCTS
Dostofarm GmbH, an innovative and dynamic company in Hansacker, Westerstede, Germany, has developed the following oregano-based products for the growing global livestock and poultry industry:
1. Dosto Green (7.5% oregano oil) -feed additive for poultry, calves, foals, goats, swine and rabbits.
2. Dosto Liquid (100,000 mg/kg oregano oil) – water-soluble supplement for poulry and swine and for hatching eggs.
3. Dosto Special 8% and Dosto Emulsion – control for E. coli and coccidiosis, and improve gut microflora, appetite and intake.

Aside for being environmentally friendly. pure and natural, Dostofarm feed additives, which exclusively imported and distributed by Broadchem Corporation in the Philippines, exhibit the following salient properties:
1. strong enteric bactericidal effects;
2. only. local reactions;
3. no withdrawal periods;
4. no residues in meat, milk or eggs;
5. no influence on taste of meat, milk or eggs; and
6. no antibiotic resistance.

Dosto products are now widely used in Europe and elsewhere as natural growth promoters; natural coccidiostats in swine and poultry; diarrhea prevention in animals; prevention in respiratory problems; and disinfectants for hatching eggs

EFFICACY DOSTO EMULSION AGAINST PIGLET DIARRHEA
The Dosto emulsion has been found to be effective against piglet diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli and coccidia (Eimeria spp). Compared with other products, the measurable results are reached after 36-48 hours. With Dosto emulsion, treated piglets do not show any sign of dehydration and recover without signs of weakness.

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APPLICATIONS AND BENEFITS

Layers (grams/ton of feeds)

Laying Product Dosage

Laying start-laying peak Dosto Green 500

(week 20-35) Dosto Special 8% 450

Laying peak end Dosto Green 150

Dosto Special 8% 135

Broilers(grams/ton of feeds)

Period Product Dosage with

Coccidostatic Medication

Starter 1+ 2 Dosto Green 500

(day 1-18) Dosto Special 8% 450

Fattening Dosto Green 150

(day 19 – end) Dosto Special 8% 135

Benefits for layers and broilers are better feed intake, better health status, reduced medicine costs, fewer problems with diarrhea, and improved egg shell quality for older animals.

Swine (grams/ton of feeds)

Liveweight (kg) Feed Type Dosto Green* Dosto Special 8%*

Up to 7 Prestarter 1,000 900

7-12 Starter 1,000 900

13-28 Grower 500 450

29-60 Fattening start 300 270

60-until end Final feed 200 180

of fattening

Sows Continuously 300 270

*In order to have the maximum effect do not interrupt this system.

Benefits for swine are stimulation of appetite, increase in weight gain, improve in eight consumption, stabilization of digestion, and positive effect on dysentery.

FEATURES AND HEALTH BENEFITS

Oregano has an aromatic, warm, and slightly bitter taste. It varies in intensity; good quality is so strong that it almost numbs the tongue. But the cultivars adapted to colder climates often have unsatisfactory flavor. The influence of climate, season and soil on the composition of the essential oil is greater than the difference between various species.

In the Philippines, oregano (Coleus aromaticus) is not commonly used for cooking but is rather considered as primarily medicinal plant, useful for relieving children’s coughs.

INTRODUCING DOSTO-OIL BASED PRODUCTS

Dostofarm GmbH, an innovative and dynamic company in Hansacker, Westerstede, Germany, has developed the following oregano-based products for the growing global livestock and poultry industry:

1. Dosto Green (7.5% oregano oil) -feed additive for poultry, calves, foals, goats, swine and rabbits.

2. Dosto Liquid (100,000 mg/kg oregano oil) – water-soluble supplement for poulry and swine and for hatching eggs.

3. Dosto Special 8% and Dosto Emulsion – control for E. coli and coccidiosis, and improve gut microflora, appetite and intake.

1. strong enteric bactericidal effects;

2. only. local reactions;

3. no withdrawal periods;

4. no residues in meat, milk or eggs;

5. no influence on taste of meat, milk or eggs; and

6. no antibiotic resistance.

EFFICACY DOSTO EMULSION AGAINST PIGLET DIARRHEA

The Dosto emulsion has been found to be effective against piglet diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli and coccidia (Eimeria spp). Compared with other products, the measurable results are reached after 36-48 hours. With Dosto emulsion, treated piglets do not show any sign of dehydration and recover without signs of weakness.