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posted by CoolHand on Saturday April 04 2015, @02:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-there-is-something-to-old-witchcraft-potions-after-all dept.

The CBC has an article about a medieval recipe found in a 1,000-year-old book that can kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

The recipe's ingredients include: garlic, onion or leek, wine, and oxgall (bile from a cow's stomach). Oh, yeah, it's also supposed to be "brewed in a brass vessel, strained and then left to sit for nine days before use."

From the article:

A recipe for the potion, originally an eye salve, was found in Bald's Leechbok, a 10th-century book of Anglo-Saxon medical advice and recipes for medicines, salves and treatments found in the British Library.
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When tested in mice on wounds infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), it performed at least as well as conventional antibiotics, reported scientists at the Annual Conference of the Society for General Microbiology this week in the United Kingdom.

"We were absolutely blown away by just how effective the combination of ingredients was," Freya Harrison, the University of Nottingham microbiologist who led the study, said in a statement.

Apparently, this recipe is even effective against biofilms which modern antibiotics really struggle to combat.

More details from The University of Nottingham and BBC News.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 04 2015, @06:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 04 2015, @06:57AM (#166326)

    Its not the merchants I am so disappointed in... rather its the bankers.

    They loan out money they do not have, charge interest on it, then have rights to retake everything anytime they decide to pull in the reins and "dip" the system...

    On second thought, its US I am pissed at. We keep falling for this scam over and over and over.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 04 2015, @11:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 04 2015, @11:04AM (#166359)

    All the major religions outlawed usury millennia ago, but gullible people so love to get scammed by bankers, that they insist on continuing the practice.

  • (Score: 2) by TLA on Sunday April 05 2015, @03:36PM

    by TLA (5128) on Sunday April 05 2015, @03:36PM (#166678) Journal

    not only do the bankers *have* the money, they *control the money supply*. This is so completely wrong, some countries have realised how badly they've been fucked over and starting with Iceland (who JAILED the bankers for grand fraud years ago), some states have aggressively seized control of their own currencies back from the banks. I can't think of any other examples than Iceland, sorry, they may even be the only one - but the more countries that do this the better for everybody. Banks are the embodiment of evil and have no place in civilised society.

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