A fearful fact that the medicine transmitted from 1000 years ago has been effective to drug resistant multidrug-resistant bacterium "MRSA" turned out

penicillinSuch as methicillin, which is a type of multidrug-resistant bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) ". Although it is a harmless bacterium for healthy people, it is a terrible bacterium that the medicine for defeating bacteria will not work if infected, and it is often seen in hospitals often using antibiotics. I discovered that such MRSA can be sterilized by the treatment method of 1000 years ago when antibiotics were not discovered yet.

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A thousand years ago, the method that Anglo-Saxon people used as a cure for eye infections has proven to be suitable for sterilizing multidrug-resistant bacteria MRSA. Using the method that was already invented 1000 years ago, it seems that MRSA can be almost sterilized, and the expert commented "I was surprised".

Treatment regimen 1000 years ago to be useful for MRSA is stored in the British LibraryBald's LeechbookWhat was written in an old medical book called. According to Dr. Christina Lee of the University of Nottingham who is conducting the study of Anglo-Saxon people, the treatment was described in Bald's Leechbook as "eye ointment", and this recipe is actually translated and used for MRSA I found out that MRSA can be sterilized. According to Dr. Lee, the eye ointment seems to be made by mixing four kinds of garlic, onions, chilled wine, cow bile.


Bald's Leechbook is a record of experiments and observations carried out by Anglo-Saxon physicians, and things are written in procedures very close to modern scientific research law. In order to investigate how individual ingredients and methods of various medicines and treatments, including eye ointment, written in this book work against bacteria, a research team including Dr. Lee We conducted various tests and found an eye ointment that could kill nearly 90% MRSA.

Dr. Freya Harrison stated that the eye ointment had "a small antibiotic activity effect" and frankly "about the effect of this ophthalmic ointment" Our research team found out that the great effect of eye ointment due to the combination of ingredients I was touched by it. "


Dr. Lee becomes a treatment for existing bacteria and diseases in "past literature written on the treatment method" which exist in the world as the eye ointment written in Bald's Leechbook has been effective for MRSA He said that there might be things. The details of these survey results will be held in BirminghamAnnual Conference 2015It is scheduled to be announced at.