TIL a medieval English recipe was found to cure MRSA, an infection characterized by a resistance to antibiotics. It consists of wine, garlic, leek, and oxgall standing in a brass vessel for nine days. Each step "was crucial for its efficacy".

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)During our eyesalve study, chemist Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of a new therapy for malaria after searching over 2,000 recipes from ancient Chinese literature on herbal medicine.Is another "Silver bullet" for microbial infection hidden within medieval European medical literature?Are the results of this medieval recipe representative of others that treat infection? Were practitioners selecting and combining materials following some "Scientific" methodology for producing biologically active cocktails?Further research may show that some medieval medicines were more than placebos or palliative aids, but actual "Ancientbiotics" used long before the modern science of infection control.Our team will then examine how these patterns may help us to use medieval texts as inspiration for lab tests of candidate "Ancientbiotic" recipes.The database could direct us to new recipes to test in the lab in our search for novel antibiotics, as well as inform new research into the antimicrobial agents contained in these ingredients on the molecular level.Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: medieval#1 recipe#2 infection#3 ingredient#4 database#5Post found in /r/todayilearned and /r/Health.NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here. via /r/autotldr https://ift.tt/2pOsWxN