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

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Elegran Tue 31-Mar-15 00:13:44

This sounds wonderful - but I found the report in the early hours of April 1st. I do hope that it is true.

AlieOxon Tue 31-Mar-15 17:22:57

Wasn't there also a thing about using Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) to completely sterilise hospital rooms? what happened to that?

Juliette Tue 31-Mar-15 18:44:41

Thanks for that AO
It was very successful on my neighbours DH too. Months of conventional treatment were going nowhere. I know that they used +12 and that is what I always buy.
My neighbour's DH did not have MRSA as far as I know, just very stubborn ulcers which so many older people suffer from.

AlieOxon Tue 31-Mar-15 19:26:48

MRSA diagnosed in May - gone by July.....

I do wish people knew about this especially when I see old people with
bandaged legs....

The first I heard of it was the story of Prince Hal (Henry V) who at 16 received an arrow near his eye - it was removed and honey was part of the ointment used to sterilise the wound. Gory story here if you want to look it up!
But at the time I was using it, the Dermatology Dept at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford was trying it out, quite separately - and the latest is that it's also being tried out as a mouthwash. Must tell my dentist that.

rosequartz Tue 31-Mar-15 20:15:48

Tea tree oil is supposed to be good against Golden Staph.

janerowena Tue 31-Mar-15 20:28:41

I love tea tree oil. I used to use it for all sorts of things - I don't so much nowadays because I always had copious quantities to keep the nits away from the DC's hair - and mine. It's brilliant in the bathwater if you have scratches and grazes from gardening.

Soutra Tue 31-Mar-15 21:04:07

I believe one of the reasons bacteria have become so resistant is not just our over-dependence on antibiotics but also the widespread if not overuse of "anti-bacterial" products in the home -anti-bac chopping boards, cloths, and yes, even tea tree oil. Careful washing and scrubbing are much more effective and won't run the risk of bacterial resistance.

POGS Tue 31-Mar-15 21:40:01

When I first saw this I thought of MP David Treddinnick, is this homeopathy or not?

loopylou Tue 31-Mar-15 21:52:23

Drug-Resistance is due to the over-use and misuse of antibiotics- patients' expectations that GPs will prescribe antibiotics for viral (pointless) and minor illnesses and patients not finishing the whole course.
In hospitals the situation is then compounded because the patient is really unwell and there are fewer effective antibiotics to choose from - the 'strongest' ones have often got side effects too.
Natural remedies wouldn't as far as I can see, cause resistance, they've been used for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Honey was used by the Ancient Egyptians!

Elegran Tue 31-Mar-15 22:18:25

Pogs Homeopathy would be if they made up the mixture and put one part of it into a hundred parts of water and shook it up well, then put one part of that into a fresh hundred parts of water and shook it up again, then repeated that a third time.

I think this remedy is meant to be used at full strength.

POGS Tue 31-Mar-15 22:42:35

Elegran

I think I understand, thank you for replying.

I admit I have never really studied homeopathy , I should find out more as Treddinnik is my MP and he has had a lot of stick lately, as I am sure most GN's know, after all there was a thread on GN recently that followed that line of thought.

I must try harder grin