LONDON, UK (APR / 1 / 2015). - A natural remedy for eye infections, described in a manuscript dating back a century, could be the key to ending superbugs resistant to antibiotics, British specialists estimate.
Scientists create a medieval recipe using onion, garlic and a stomach of a cow, and found that this remedy "almost completely annihilate" the bacterium Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
The remedy is embodied in the Bald's Leechbook, a book of ninth-century Anglo-Saxon medicine containing several curative treatments, which is under guard of the British Library.
The expert Saxon University of Nottingham, Dr. Christina Lee, translated the recipe for a "balm eye," including garlic, onion, wine and cow bile, and specialists in microbiology he was drafted for testing with large crops bacteria.
The experts, from the same university, found that this natural remedy virtually "kill" MRSA (90 percent), which became resistant to penicillin and methicillin later.
The effect of the recipe all the ingredients involved, "not one" say the specialists, who will present their findings at the next national conference of microbiology.
The Bald's Leechbook is one of the first examples of what might loosely be called a medical textbook, it contains important lessons to combat microbial diseases, accurate British broadcaster BBC news.
Apparently, the Anglo doctors had actually practiced much like the modern scientific method, with its emphasis on observation and experimentation, he adds.
Dr. Lee says that there are many similar medieval books with natural treatments against bacterial infections, suggesting that people of that time were conducting detailed studies long before bacteria were discovered.
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