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They Found a Medicine Recipe From the Dark Ages and Made a Stunning Realization (Video)

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(N.Morgan) In light of all of the advances in modern medicine, it’s hard to imagine finding answers in the past to the medical conditions faced today, however, scientists just found something amazing in an old medieval text.

Microbes have evolved to become antibiotic resistant, which makes finding new antibiotics a never-ending job as our current ones become ineffective. Due to this, around 700,000 people die worldwide every year from drug-resistant infections. The number of deaths may even increase to tens of millions by 2050.

These statistics are what motivated a Ancientbiotics team — made up of medievalists, microbiologists, medicinal chemists, parasitologists, pharmacists, and data scientists from various universities and countries — to begin researching medical history in the hopes of finding cures that actually work to treat infections.

The team tested a 1,000-year old recipe from an Old English medical text called “Bald’s Leechbook, in 2015.” The treatment, called Bald’s eyesalve, was supposed to kill the bacteria that causes a sty, which is an infection of the eyelash follicle.

The simple recipe called for wine, garlic, a species from the onion genus, and oxgall to be mixed together and left in a brass vessel for nine nights.

When the team made this concoction in their study, it ended up killing bacteria commonly known to cause styes.

It also killed Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is not only known to cause severe and chronic infections like sepsis and pneumonia, but is also antibiotic-resistant.

They are now hoping to make more medical breakthroughs by studying and testing pre modern European medicine, especially recipes that are associated with recognizable signs of infection.

The video below is a true portrayal of the surgery performed on Prince Henry in 1403 to remove an arrowhead from his face. The surgeon recreates the actual operation on film and includes references to Roman surgery and ancient remedies.

Medieval Surgeon

References:

https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/AMR%20Review%20Paper%20-%20Tackling%20a%20crisis%20for%20the%20health%20and%20wealth%20of%20nations_1.pdf

http://www.viralnova.com/medieval-medicines/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/health/medieval-medicine-antibiotics-partner/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSLMNxxix7Bn1tiEELRcpQ

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    • Man

      no one will use that concoction…

    • Mick

      I read the Romans knew of and gave opium to wounded soldiers to ease the pain of surgery for battle wounds and they inhaled the smoke as a powerful analgesic and pre-operation relaxant. It’s one of those things which history had forgotten, mostly because in the Dark Ages (so-called because it was an age of ignorance), when the Church ruled Europe and they didn’t want people educated. The Church only wanted the priest-caste to know how to read and write in what was a fundamendalist totalitarian state.

      Historians also rediscovered that the Romans knew what caused the plague, as explained in a couplet which translates loosely as;

      Plague is not caused by the rats
      but by the beasts that ride their backs.

      • dakota

        Opium also opens gateways in the brain to the abyss. Beware.

      • 2QIK4U

        They also knew all about Magic mushrooms and chewed on cocoa plants that’s what the druids were really for and gave the illusion they had a magical /spiritual connection to thier gods

    • holycow

      it has been known for many years now, that Master Mineral Solution (MMS) kills resistant bacteria, viruses and parasites. No need to brew medieval concoctions, just take MMS three weeks and you are like reborn. Guaranteed. Easy, cheap and 100% effective.

      http://healersgold.nl/mms-shop.htm

      • holycow

        Anyone can better go to Jim Humble’s own website on MMS for information http://genesis2church.is
        I’m not an international supplier, sorry.
        Here’s the suppliers list: http://waterpurificationsuppliers.is/
        They call it ‘Water Purification’ only for legal purposes.
        One of the suppliers in in jail now, cause Big Pharma and FDA are not amused with this miracle solution of Jim Humble, of course.

        But if you need anything as an emergency, or even for cancer cure, leukemia, anything – take MMS!
        It’s a cure for 97% of all diseases, including animals and plants.

        Why? Simple: any malevolent micro organism is anaerobic and MMS is an oxidizer. Therefore, it’s 100% efficient and it doesn’t touch the benevolent (aerobic) micro organisms. This is true, no hoax. We sell for low prices, etc. just to benefit humanity and screw the establisment.

        • Safffff

          I agree and have tried it but is extremely powerful in killing gut bacteria like antibiotics do. I was maintaining a glucose level of 90 no mater how much sugar I ate and one day after taking MMs it jumped 20 points. I suspect the mms killed off some bacteria in the gut that help me digest sugar. It has not returned in 9 months.

    • 2QIK4U

      Cool. I found an old recipe but it includes 5 pounds of crushed human skull. Pass. They’re finding the plant life under the ice at Antarctica is also killing modern bacteria

    • Andy

      baking soda
      sodium bicarbonate
      bicarb

      kills ALL bacterium, is anti-fungal and anti-viral and has about another 40 medicinal uses, including fixing ulcers, tinea, preventing foot odor and the list goes on

      any time i get cut or scratched, sprinkle a little bicarb to prevent infection, or if already infected, remove the scab and dust it with bicarb

      then there’s iodine,,, which is even better

      • 2QIK4U

        Your right except bicarbonate soda aggravates ulcers. I know by finding out the hard way. It makes the ulcer start and you start having pain and spitting out acids. But it is an excellent oxidizer

      • ehecatl

        I cured myself of stage 4 colon cancer (and chronic hemmorids) a year ago using sodium bicarbonate and potassium iodide enimas. I was full of tumors and the doctor said it was as bad as he had seen and I was scheduled to be operated on, but at the last moment I tried a daily enima with 1tbs baking soda and 1000mg potassium iodide per liter of warm water, and in a week all the tumors and hemmroids had dissappeared and my energy returned and months later I returned to the doctor for a checkup and was totally clear of cancer through several methods of exam.

      • NWO for Dummies.

        Bicarbonate will cure most cancers when used with magnesium. Best and easiest method of accessing bicarbonate for this treatment is to buy alkaline water ph 9-10

    • Pink Slime

      Hello Angle#3,

      Charlie here. Funny you mentioned a recipe book because I was just thinking the other day of writing a book called, The Fine Art of Master-Baking, or How I Learned to Love Myself.

      Yes, a Zen-type book and also a recipe book. Will have all my favorite doughnut recipes inside. Even the creme filled ones. :idea: :arrow: :neutral:

      I think the world must first learn to love itself before going on to greater achievements. I believe learning the art of master-baking will be a start. Or do you think this is what the problem is? :wink: :wink:

      Please let me know in the suggestion box at the office when you come by for your doughnuts. :lol: :lol:

      Signed,

      Charlie (what the world needs now is love sweet – doughnuts!) :lol: :lol:

    • Boo

      Looks like we haven’t come as long a way baby as we thought. How humbling, we actually had some better cures for what ails us today 1000′s of years ago. We probably had the double helix figured out too. Looks like the only thing we do know now is we’ve probably been progressively dumbing ourselves down and devolving through the centuries.

    • Muggles

      This is what we need, natural remedies, not the vile chemical crap from Pharmaceutical Companies.

    • Sulletje

      This coming from doctors who believed in bloodletting. Get real.

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