A 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon remedy has been found to kill superbug methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, according to research conducted at The University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
Researchers recreated a 10th century potion for eye infections from Bald's Leechbook, an Old English volume in the British Library. Testing of the potion has shown remarkable effects on MRSA, a highly antibiotic-resistant infection.
The U.K. team also asked United States collaborators to test the recipe using an "in vivo" wound model, and it yielded the same potent results, according to a CNN report. The team says that its data shows that the remedy kills up to 90 percent of MRSA bacteria in "in vivo" wound biopsies from mice, the report notes.