Posted on 03/31/2015 5:42:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It might sound like a really old wives' tale, but a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon potion for eye infections may hold the key to wiping out the modern-day superbug MRSA, according to new research.
The 10th-century "eyesalve" remedy was discovered at the British Library in a leather-bound volume of Bald's Leechbook, widely considered to be one of the earliest known medical textbooks.
Christina Lee, an expert on Anglo-Saxon society from the School of English at the University of Nottingham, translated the ancient manuscript despite some ambiguities in the text.
"We chose this recipe in Bald's Leechbook because it contains ingredients such as garlic that are currently investigated by other researchers on their potential antibiotic effectiveness," Lee said in a video posted on the university's website.
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Onions and garlic both contain something similar to each other that works. I have found that as soon as I even suspect that I may have a cold coming on (the little ‘itch’ in the back of the throat), or know I’ve been exposed, I will start eating a few raw cloves of garlic a day. It always works so long as I get on it immediately and am consistent for at least 2 days, preferably 3. I’ll avoid the bug while the people around me turn into human Petri dishes.
wow - index bump
I now crave onions when cold season arrives! I like garlic in cooked foods and some types of salad but I cannot tolerate large amounts raw with a problem arising related to diverticulitis, which my cousin cured years ago by feeding me salsa three meals a day for a week. He made the salsa , even roasting the various peppers in the oven to remove the skins. He made the best salsa I had ever eaten! And yes, he included raw garlic in it. ... And a little red wine is very good for the gut.
This may be why garlic was such a big part of the diet in much of Europe such as Italy and still is. Garlic is a well known natural anti-viral/anti-bacterial cure and preventative. Red wine has resveratrol which we know to be a very good immune system enhancer. I have been taking it twice a day for a year or two now with great results. Even when I do catch a bug; it doesn’t last near as long or have near the effects as before I started taking it. The trick is finding a good quality brand without a lot of fillers and other junk.
I get it through Amazon and pay around $35 for a 3 month supply.
From the garlic? Probiotics? Bleach water?
Haven’t had that experience...yet ;)
Allicin
Which brand and can you smell it on your skin?
Yep! That’s the name, thanks!
“Which brand and can you smell it on your skin?”
No smell on the skin. Resveratol has no side effects that I know of.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003NR33OW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Note: this topic is from . Thanks MinorityRepublican. Seems like an apropo history topic to re-ping. :^)
My favorite unpatentable is sunshine. It kills or prevents colds and seasonal influenza. I suspect it may mitigate the WuHan flu. I would love to see a study comparing the symptoms of lack there of between outdoors people who expose skin to the sun a lot and office workers.Sunshine is also probably the only effective medicine for clinical and other Depression. I know for a fact it has ended manic depression in three people I have induced to “get out in the sun every day!” one being my daughter. One woman was severe with cycles of increasing amplitude and believed by all her family to be headed to suicide.The third took my advice then told me six months later that it made her feel so good she stopped taking her methadone. I had not known anything about the methadone. But no government person or pharma person will say anything but “old wives tales” that will only cause skin cancer.”
I ended my toe rot by dabbing tea tree oil on it daily. It seems to take a long time because you don’t see results until the nail grows out but it is probably effective pretty quickly. The irritation did stop in a couple of days. Now I go barefoot a lot. That is the best preventative, I think.
If she floats it is because Satan preservers her. If she drowns, well, she goes to Heaven so that is a good thing.
Modern scientists cannot get patents for these things for the benefit of their employers and bureaucrats at the FDA cannot regulate them so they cannot be accepted or spoken of except in denigration.
That remedy sounds delicious but sunshine daily(or vitamin D supps in the winter in northern climes) is a surer preventative and cure.
And mucking about on Free Republic?
The alkaline quality probably goes far to make it effective.
Vitamin D. If a cold or flu has already started take 900 units per pound of body weight in one dose. That works out to 27 little tiny 5000 iu size gelcaps for me. First time for me I was very sick and everyone else was laid out for 3-4 weeks. My MIL handed me the D3 and said take it. I was fixed and fine in 8 hours. Now I take one of those things daily and have not had a virus in 16 years. No flu shots either.
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