Why The Superbug-Killing Medieval Home Remedy Works
As billions are spent on highly powerful antibiotics that are ‘bigger and better’ than their predecessors, a medieval home remedy has been making headlines. As researchers from the US and Britain just found out, there’s something about this concoction that kills superbugs completely – without the use of pharmaceutical antibiotics, injections, or blood transfusions.
Dating back to the the 10th century, the recipe for the remedy demands garlic, onions, and leek combined with wine and the bile of a cow’s stomach. In other words, it’s known infection crushers mixed with an odd combination of bile. A weird recipe that actually works to not only clear up eye infections and styes at large, but kills MRSA superbugs.
Detailing her discoveries, it was Dr. Christina Lee, professor at the School of English at Nottingham University, who released her findings on the cure. From one report on Fox:
“Dr. Christina Lee, a professor at the School of English at Nottingham University, recreated the treatment to see if it could work as a modern-day remedy. To her surprise, it not only cleared up styes, but also worked effectively against the potentially deadly superbug.
The Telegraph reports that the mixture killed about 999 of 1,000 MRSA bacterial cells present in mice wounds. Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh of Texas Tech University, told the Telegraph that the 1,000-year-old remedy worked “as good, if not better than” traditional antibiotics.”
Why This Remedy Really Works
Lee’s report, as well as the media reports on the subject, go on to state that they simply have ‘no idea’ why the remedy works. The reality, here, however, is that the remedy most likely works largely in part because of its inclusion of onions and garlic. We have known for quite some time that special sulfur compounds in garlic are extremely capable of killing bad bacteria (and even preventing cancer).
In fact, the amazing properties of garlic are quite notorious among cultures who have been using garlic in their dishes for countless years. Scientists believe that the role of garlic in cancer prevention quite possibly has to do with the way that garlic boosts the production of something known as hydrogen sulfide. It is this very substance that also protects the heart. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that directly injecting hydrogen sulfide into mice almost completely stopped damage to heart muscles as a result of heart attack.
“People have known garlic was important and has health benefits for centuries,” said Dr. David W. Kraus
The recent findings regarding this medieval age remedy remind us to include powerful superfoods like onions and garlic in our daily lives in order to reap the benefits. No cow stomach bile needed.
Important article Anthony, especially the fact that it helps get people think for themselves, to do primary (as opposed to secondary) research, to challenge information with custom real-world experiments, and to commit to divesting away from the Medical-Insurance-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex! Having said this, please be advised everyone, that the vast majority of the world’s garlic comes from China (along with the vast majority of all supplements raw materials, herbs, and much of the produce in Wal-Mart). China has in the course of a couple decades, totally ruined most of its agricultural soils with accumulated heavy metals. Due to agricultural grow systems there, the heavy metal accumulation has reached such dangerous levels that it is no longer a viable solution to buy any food, herbs, or supplements made from materials grown in China. For the last year or so, major food and supplement manufacturing operations have been searching for alternate sources to wean ourselves off this contaminated food pipeline. I live in WA State which is within the largest Garlic Region in NA, so I am able to find domestic garlic and by-pass Wal-Mart’s great prices. The irony is that a month-long garlic cure for heavy metals is one of the best cleanses anyone can do, but not using Garlic sourced from China. I used to grow garlic commercially and still grow the off-beat varieties. However, garlic takes a long time to mature, and is an expensive set-up, so when you are in the need for a large supply for a medicinal healing program, I opt to invest my resources in other components of my de-tox program, such as pineapples for my Green Drinks!.
Another advantage of garlic to iconoclastic curmudgeons like me is that it keeps everybody away, thus prolonging life by avoiding needless aggravation and stress.. Prolific farting, belching, and BO are also helpful in this regard.
April fool’s!!!
Cow bile, he said…
Brilliant idea..and did you know…the story of an onion farmer? http://www.snopes.com/medical/swineflu/onion.asp