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January 16, 2004:
Honey And Leeches As Real Medicine
Interview
with Robert Root-Bernstein, author of Honey,
Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels
Mike
Carruthers:
Some of the old ways of dealing with cuts and wounds may have
some medical validity, particularly now with people becoming more
and more resistant to antibiotics. Honey for instance…
Robert
Root-Bernstein:
Two physicians in particular have reached the point where
they said, you know we tried everything medicine has to offer,
what do we do now? In each case a nurse said, "well, when
my grandmother was faced with a bad cut or something she put
honey on it." And they said, "well, what the heck."
Robert Root-Bernstein,
co-author of the book Honey,
Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels.
You know,
we have nothing to lose, nothing else has worked, they put honey
on, and very often they'd have literally miracle cures. People
who have been infected for years would be up and walking around
and totally cured in six weeks. Large scale clinical trials
now have shown that oftenly the honey in a wound will not only
cure it, but cure it at three times the rate the standard antibiotics
and antiseptics will. So, people are getting very excited about
this.
Leeches
have made a big comeback, says Robert. For example, if you lose
a finger and it has to be reattached...
The surgeons
can do a great job of reattaching a few of the blood vessels,
but they can't reattach all of them, and they certainly can't
reattach the tiniest of them. So, when that happens they will
call in a little tiny guy named Hirudo Medicinalis, this is
the medical leech. He will be attached to the limb and he will
simply suck blood through it, which helps the blood flow and
help the blood vessels reform.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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