Modern medicine could learn a lot from the the past if they took the time to learn from old age wisdom. The University of Nottingham is doing just that. Their recreation of a medieval medicine shows extreme promise and progress against modern-day superbug MRSA and is proving to be more effective than conventional antibiotic treatment.
According modern day translation, the medieval potion is made from garlic, onion (or leek), oxgall (bile from a cow’s stomach), and wine that is aged in a brass vessel for 9 days before straining.
While researchers are not quite sure why it works, they’re confident it does. According to microbiologist Freya Harrison “I still can’t quite believe how well this 1,000-year-old antibiotic actually seems to be working,”
Harrison adds, “We were going from a mature, established population of a few billion cells, all stuck together in this highly protected biofilm coat, to really just a few thousand cells left alive. This is a massive, massive killing ability.”
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