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European Chestnut Leaf Extract Disarms Staphylococcus aureus [and MRSA]
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| 2015 August 23
| Sci-News.com
Posted on 08/25/2015 7:41:16 PM PDT by CutePuppy
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The European chestnut (Castanea sativa), also known as the sweet chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fagaceae, native to Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. The tree attains a height of 100 feet (30 m). It has rugged, grooved bark and glossy, serrate, oblong-lanceolate leaves up to 11 inches (28 cm) in length. Image credit: Willow, Germany / CC BY-SA 3.0.
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posted on
08/25/2015 7:41:16 PM PDT
by
CutePuppy
To: CutePuppy
Ok, mix that with some honey, onion extract .... sounds like the old alchemist may have been ahead of their times.
To: taxcontrol
To: CutePuppy
Excellent. I figured it was only a matter of time.
Sure makes you think about clearing the rain forest and things like that.
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posted on
08/25/2015 7:47:55 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: CutePuppy
Chestnuts were widespread here. Then the blight killed most of them.
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posted on
08/25/2015 7:55:09 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: CutePuppy
[[Rather than killing Staphylococcus aureus, the chestnut leaf extract rich in oleanene and ursene derivatives (pentacyclic triterpenes) works by taking away bacteria’s weapons, essentially shutting off the ability of the bacteria to create toxins that cause tissue damage.]]
Ok fine- but now we’ve got staph lying dormant in our bodies? What happens when the extract is stopped?
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posted on
08/25/2015 8:14:17 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: stars & stripes forever
if you’re talking about colloidal silver- watch out- it can and has turned people’s skin a real ugly blue- permanetly
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posted on
08/25/2015 8:16:16 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: CutePuppy
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posted on
08/25/2015 8:16:21 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
That would be the American Chestnut. The European Chestnut is another species.
To: CutePuppy
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posted on
08/25/2015 8:31:18 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(The hell with DEFUND- PROSECUTE the planned parenthood baby butchers!)
To: CutePuppy
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posted on
08/25/2015 9:28:15 PM PDT
by
dadfly
To: Bob434
Silver Sol is a nano silver. We used the gel on my mother when she had an acute case of MRSA. The doctors were astonished it healed. We used the gel liberally, but it got the job done. She also was on antibiotics.
http://www.guardian-silver.com/silver-sol-uses/
To: stars & stripes forever
Great for more superficial stuff but doesn’t work on deep tissue infections like I’ve had. No topical formulation does. Silver taken orally is worthless.
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08/25/2015 9:44:03 PM PDT
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steve86
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08/25/2015 9:48:16 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: steve86
[Great for more superficial stuff but doesnt work on deep tissue infections like Ive had.]
The MRSA infection was to the bone.
We had a lot of people praying for her.
To: stars & stripes forever
We had a lot of people praying for her. Which is probably the correct explanation for the recovery.
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posted on
08/25/2015 9:55:51 PM PDT
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steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: CutePuppy
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:02:14 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Smokin' Joe
thanks for the ping. bttt.
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:54:31 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: matthew fuller
It's well known that Copper and Silver have antimicrobial properties (in particular, silver is widely used in dressings of wounds when antibiotics are counter-indicated or not effective) but their uses have certain side effects and are limited mostly to contact surface of skin and wound, and they are expensive, while this chestnut extract could be synthesized and cheaply made, and safely used with disinfectants as well as applied directly to patients.
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posted on
08/25/2015 11:01:09 PM PDT
by
CutePuppy
(If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
To: Bob434
[[
— works by taking away bacterias weapons, essentially shutting off the ability of the bacteria to create toxins that cause tissue damage.]]
The presumption is that the biochemical change of bacteria is permanent or long-lasting enough, when it no longer poses a serious threat to a healthy immune system. In which case the "dormant" would not really be the proper adjective anymore. There are plenty of harmless and even useful bacteria and viruses in human bodies.
[[The extract does not lose activity, or become resistant, even after two weeks of repeated exposure.]]
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08/25/2015 11:01:36 PM PDT
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CutePuppy
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