LOL, 1,000-Year-Old Onion and Garlic Eye Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

A 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, experts have said.
Scientists recreated a 9th Century Anglo-Saxon remedy using onion, garlic and part of a cow’s stomach.

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They were “astonished” to find it almost completely wiped out methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA.
Their findings will be presented at a national microbiology conference.
The remedy was found in Bald’s Leechbook – an old English manuscript containing instructions on various treatments held in the British Library.
Anglo-Saxon expert Dr Christina Lee, from the University of Nottingham, translated the recipe for an “eye salve”, which includes garlic, onion or leeks, wine and cow bile.

Experts from the university’s microbiology team recreated the remedy and then tested it on large cultures of MRSA.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

Incredible.

Imagine the royalties they could reap if alive today!

Especially if incorporated in a garden variety tax-haven...

:I buy!:

LOL, 1,000-Year-Old Onion and Garlic Eye Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

LOL, 1,000-Year-Old Onion and Garlic Eye Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

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