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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Saw that this morning but I’m having a bit of a problem getting past the oxgall in the recipe.
And so does garlic stuffed olives and vodka ....
But even so it is gentle enough to be an eye ointment and it does a job the biggest hairiest anti-biotics can’t, pretty amazing stuff!
Won’t lots of substances kill MRSA in a petri dish?
Garlic is a powerful antimicrobial and anti-fungal. It acquired the reputation that it has for good reason. The wine I’d imagine acts as a preservative. Oxgall, no idea other than to make it seem more ... potent, lol?
Is this a thread about haggis?
well, i know garlic is a potent antimicrobial, used for thousands of years, used to control infections during ww1, safe obviously because we eat it, but the problem is it can’t be patented, so it’s usually relegated to the, you are a quack, category.
Does this text have a remedy for Progressives? Maybe something that would double their IQ, that would bring it up to 100...
Anglo Saxons? What have THEY ever done to advance progess?! The whole thing is racist!
Wonder how it would work on my big toe nail. I've had fungal problems with it for years.
Is this the same article that was on FB?
I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong, but isn’t part of the problem with antibiotics due to their precise formula? It doesn’t take much of a mutation for a virus to resist the “key” that unlocked and destroyed it.
Things like garlic, wine and oxgall (yikes!) vary in their composition from plant to plant and animal to animal so that a slight mutation in a virus doesn’t make it resistant to the antibiotic formula.
They lose me when they they use science to determine who is a witch - if she floats she is a witch but if she drowns she was innocent...
We had a tech who was a BIG fan of garlic, big doses to help control his blood pressure. I suppose it worked, but you didn’t want to spend a lot of time downwind.
2x for x=0 is still not going to reach 100.
Problem is not one of IQ level, but mental disease. I’d use garlic not to heal them, but to keep them away.
Either all our ancestors up until the discovery of penicillin were a bunch of superstitious ignoramuses, or they discovered some natural remedies that were effective for many ailments.
I believe they discovered many natural remedies that worked and modern scientists should evaluate them objectively, particularly as more bacteria have become resistent to existing antibiotics.
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Marinade it in garlic like a steak and see if it helps.
“Either all our ancestors up until the discovery of penicillin were a bunch of superstitious ignoramuses, or they discovered some natural remedies that were effective for many ailments.”
Probably a little of both.
A lot of drugs are, or are derived from, natural products.
Garlic and onions are a life saver, add some coconut oil and you are good to go!
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