1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA

[berdee]

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.

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA - BBC News

[ContrarianEcon]

nice

[Juram]

Originally Posted by berdee

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA - BBC News

Makes sense, both onions and garlic have antibacterial properties.

Manuka honey is another that has shown good results in inhibiting MRSA.

There's a lot of rubbish treatments that were used in medievel times but through the process of trial and error people back then discovered some still effective approaches such as the one described in the article.