1000-year-old onion and garlic remedy kills drug-resistant superbug

 

In an astounding finding, an 1000-year-old recipe made from onion, garlic, wine and part of a cow’s stomach has proven more effective than modern-day medicine in killing antibiotic resistant infections.

 

According to reports, the 10th-century 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. This may hold the key to wiping out the modern-day superbug MRSA acccording to research.  

Scientists at University of Nottingham have translated the ancient manuscript and with the help of microbiologists tried to see if the remedy really worked. 

 

 

The University went on to say " early results on the 'potion', tested in vitro at Nottingham and backed up by mouse model tests at a university in the United States, are, in the words of the US collaborator, “astonishing”. The solution has had remarkable effects on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which is one of the most antibiotic-resistant bugs costing modern health services billions. "