Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug
 

Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug
June 06, 2008
David Gutierrez

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(NaturalNews) Extracts from two Eurasian wildflowers are highly effective at killing the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland.

Researchers found that extracts from Inula helenium (commonly known as elecampane, horse-heal or marchalan) eliminated 100 percent of MRSA colonies upon exposure.

I. helenium and another wildflower, known as Pulsatilla vulgaris or pasque flower, were tested against 300 different varieties of staphylococci bacteria, including MRSA. P. vulgaris also proved "highly effective" against MRSA, according to an article in the "Irish Examiner."

MRSA is resistant to all first-line antibiotics, making it more likely that staph infections caused by the bug will proceed for longer without treatment and spread from the skin to other parts of the body. This makes MRSA correspondingly more lethal than other staph infections. The increasing prevalence and lethality of MRSA in hospitals, schools, prisons and other institutional settings across the United States has made the superbug an issue of increasing concern for health officials.............

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Wow! My father got MRSA infecting into his spinal cord fluid, after an op on his back, a major one, a few years back and was this BAD or what?

THANK YOU.

Also, you know, that form of New Zealand honey, that you can get in new age medicine type of shops? You can buy sterile tubes of it. Well , that will kill it in surface wounds too. I will look up the name of it, that honey, and post it. Also completely cures all sorts of boils and people with even chronic diabetic leg ulcers. The honey.

By the way Squeex. A Michaelmas Goose posted by was it not YOU on Duck's home page? Ba, ha, ha! How curious.

Max

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"Colonies" meaning in a petri dish. A lot of things that work in a lab environment never make it past mouse tests, because inside a mammalian body it is ineffective, or poisonous, or such. When it gets to double-blind human trials, then I'll get excited.

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i wonder how many natural/old home cures have been suppressed by Big Pharma ?

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There are lots of things that will easily kill MSRA. Doctors just act like if they haven't learned about it by Big Pharma, then it doesn't exist.

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And there are a lot of "Naturopaths" making huge claims about "cures" based on anecdotal evidence or sloppy science.

Ever notice how, despite their derivation from common plants, these cures cost WAY more than the "Big Pharma" pills they replace?

There's plenty of deception and bamboozlery on all sides.

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GARLIC has been a tried and trusted natural remedy for thousands of years.
And now researchers have found another use for the pungent bulbs � they kill MRSA.


Patients who have suffered for years with weeping, infected wounds have been cleared after a course of garlic pills and creams, recent trials at the University of East London have shown.
So far more than 250 people have been successfully treated.
Later this year a study detailing the results of the first 52 patients will be published in the journal Advances In Therapy.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...80_505734a.jpg Killer bug ... MRSA


Many of the volunteers had wounds which had refused to heal for several years � despite prolonged treatment with antibiotics.
Swabs confirmed they all carried the drug-resistant hospital superbug MRSA � but most were cured within eight to 12 weeks of treatment. Larger wounds took 18 weeks to heal.
Microbiologist Dr Ron Cutler, who headed the study, says: �It does take a little longer, but it�s an effective treatment, especially for those people with chronic MRSA lesions.�
He adds: �We have had patients on the trial who were due to have surgery to remove infected tissue, but after using the garlic preparation their wounds healed.�
The healing powers of garlic have been well documented over the centuries.
The ancient Egyptians believed it gave them strength, and in 1858 French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur demonstrated its ability to kill germs.
The bulb was widely used by medics in the First World War.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...80_505735a.jpg Healing ... garlic


And in the Second World War it was known as �Russian penicillin� and used when antibiotics were not available.
But it is only recently that scientists have begun to unravel how it works.
Garlic�s healing properties are down to a compound called allicin, which is created only when the clove is damaged and two compounds within the plant come together.
But allicin has a very short working life and until recently this made it difficult to use in medicines.
Dr Cutler�s work has focused on a form of stabilised allicin which has been �frozen in time�. It is sold on the High Street as AllicinMAX
Scoliosis sufferer Deborah Brown was the first patient to enrol on the University of East London trial.
Deborah, 38, a probation officer from Rainham, Kent, contracted MRSA after having surgery to place rods in her back to straighten it.
She says: �I was meant to be in hospital for three weeks but I ended up there for 17 weeks.
�The wounds in my back were gross. Pus would ooze through the dressings and soak the sheets. It was horrible.�
Doctors tried everything but eventually sent Deborah home saying there was nothing they could do except remove the rods � but they could not do that for at least 18 months to give her damaged vertebrae time to fuse.
She says: �I spent two years having stuff coming out of my back. I seriously considered taking my life at one point.�
Surprised

Then Deborah�s mother read a news report about Dr Cutler�s experiments and pleaded with him to help.
He admits: �At that time we didn�t even have a cream � we had to make one up.�
Within weeks, Deborah�s wounds began to heal and within 12 weeks she tested clear of MRSA.
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She says her doctors, who had initially been sceptical about the experiment, were �very surprised� by the outcome.
Dr Cutler believes allicin could prove equally effective against emerging superbugs which are even more dangerous than MRSA.
In the US, a �community acquired� form of MRSA has already killed fit young people who caught it from gyms and changing rooms.
Then there is VISA, a germ which can withstand all antibiotics.
Dr Cutler explains: �Microbiologists are convinced the community-acquired strain will develop the same sort of resistance as VISA � and when that happens we will be back to the 1930s again.
�Bugs are the best biochemists in the world � they constantly adapt and change their internal structure to become resistant to antimicrobial drugs.
�But resistance is unlikely to be a problem with allicin because it attacks on so many different fronts.�

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If someone gets MRSA, does it stay in their bodies forever? Can you catch it from someone that was treated for it and then they were supposedly cured?
My sister from Texas supposedly had it, and I shared a hotel room with her on vacation to our family reunion...just sorta wondering...sorta scary if they aren't completely rid of it, then I'm guessing maybe you COULD catch it? Yes? No?
Her husband and son never caught it. I'm guess I'm wondering how easily it is to get it, and how?

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the hell with manufactured garlic pills
go natural !!

1-2 cloves a day

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I work around it daily and have never picked it up. The main thing is being cautious about open cuts. I also think most people who pick it up either have been on antibiotics, been sick or have a weakness into heir immune system.
Many people carry MARSA in their bodies already. It just gets out of balance and takes over.. You will be fine..

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Most all of them!

You gotta love naturalnews.com Mike Adams is one A+ guy!

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i try and catch him every time he's on the Nutrimedical Report after Alex Jones

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Because you can't get sick if no one will come within ten feet of you! :bear_w00t:

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Garlic and honey are both fine bug killers for open wounds, lots of natural antibacterial plants out there, walnut leaves and wormwood are two that quickly come to mind. The trick with all these hospital "superbugs" is to hit them with something they have never seen before. Every kitchen has cloves and that is some BAD stuff, too!