• Oil sold in 20Litre Quantifies
• KOLYMPARI Extra Virgin Olive Oil – (0.1-0.7% Acidity)
• PARNON (Peloponnese) Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• All Varieties of Olives Sold – 2Kg Minimum Purchase applies
• Olivital - Olive Leaf Extract

NATURE AT WORK
The Olea Europaea (Olive tree) produces oleuropein, a phenolic compound that naturally occurs in its foliage, fruit, bark and roots. This part of the compound makes it naturally resistant to bacterial and insect damage and has been found to have vast healing properties in the human body. The phenolic compound is largely responsible for the extract’s therapeutic benefits. Research studies have found that within oleuropein is a chemical agent called elenolic acid, which has been shown to assist the body’s natural immune system. It therefore helps the body to balance levels of friendly bacteria and maintain a healthy immune system.

The book “Olive Leaf Extract” written by Dr. Morton Walker makes reference to many other ailments to which the use of olive leaf extract can be beneficial.

These include symptoms associated with:

• arthritic inflammation
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• fungal infections and parasites
• various sexually transmitted diseases
• food-borne illnesses (food poisoning)
• hepatitis (A B C) just to name a few

Olivital acts as a strong antioxidant and free radical scavenger and is recommended to:

• help maintain a normal healthy cardiovascular system
• assist in the maintenance of normal heart function
• provide a mild astringent property for the skin
• traditionally help relieve fevers
• assist in the maintenance and improvement of general well-being

NATURE’S ANTIBIOTIC CAN
HELP IMPROVE YOUR GENERAL HEALTH
Olives are well known for their diversity, from their fruit and their oil. For thousands of years the olive leaf extract has been used as a folk remedy. Only recently has scientific research started to recognise the wide range of health benefits available from the olive leaf extract and trace minerals contained in Olivital.

THE OLIVE AND ITS OIL AS A MEDICINE

A writer in ancient times known as Aelianus (3rd century AD), claimed that olive oil and the olive tree flowers were medicines that could be used even on elephants so as to pull out arrows if hunters had succeeded in hitting them:
"When an elephant is injured by many arrow heads, it eats olive tree flowers or oil and then whatever has hurt it can be removed. It is at once again strong".

It is well known that olive oil was believed to be a cure for all wounds and this knowledge continued in folklore medicine for many centuries, Doctors in ancient times and in the Byzantine world mention an array of prescriptions which use olive oil as a basic ingredient. It was mainly used against fever by being rubbed onto the body of the person who had a temperature and also as a neurological me¬dicine. Many doctors in ancient times recommended bathing in lukewarm olive oil for those who suffered from neuralgia.

There are many ancient prescriptions which use olive oil as a basic ingredient. In general we could say that there were hardly any illnesses that could not be cured with olive oil. It was used against poisoning, for oral health and in keeping teeth white, against stomach problems, dermatitis and leprosy which was a disease that continually appeared in the sub tropical areas up until quite recently.

The best oil for therapeutic reasons was the oil taken from the oil lamps of the icons. Fr. Richard, who visited the island of Chios in 1650, wrote that the abbot of the New Monastery, gave out threads, which had been dipped in the oil of these lamps, to the faithful!