Oldie But Goodie
Great news if it can be duplicated: 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA
Scientists recreated a 9th Century Anglo-Saxon remedy using onion, garlic and part of a cow’s stomach.
They were “astonished” to find it almost completely wiped out methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA.
Their findings will be presented at a national microbiology conference.
These were laboratory findings, which is great, but can it be used internally with the same efficacy?
It makes sense that not having seen this treatment for centuries, the bacteria wouldn’t be selecting for resistance, as they probably did a millennium ago when it was used for eye infections.
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Darwin Award Winner
The BBC reports on two aspirants – NSA shooting: One dead after car rams security gate.
These two fools disguised themselves as women and attempted to enter the NSA compound. The civilian NSA Police opened fire when they refused to follow orders to leave. One died at the scene, and the second went to the hospital. If they had gotten through the gate and managed to get to the building with the tires on their car shredded by the spikes, the internal force would have probably blown them to kingdom come. The force that guards NSA didn’t include an ‘Officer Friendly’ when I was there in 1960s, and it is unlikely they have gotten any nicer after 9/11.
March 30, 2015 3 Comments
