{"id":659,"date":"2015-03-31T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:25:19","slug":"leek-and-garlic-against-mrsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/2015\/03\/31\/leek-and-garlic-against-mrsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Leek and garlic against MRSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;Take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together\u2026 take wine and bullocks gall, mix with the leek\u2026 let it stand nine days in the brass vessel\u2026&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The modern recreation of this Anglo-Saxon recipe from 9th century A.D., now housed in the British Library as part of the old English medical compendium &#8220;Bald&#8217;s Leechbook&#8221;, has proven to be indeed a remedy against MRSA. MRSA are antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can lead to deadly infections of patients in modern hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Since leek, garlic and onions were common in Mesopotamia as well, this research can give hints on how effective Mesopotamian recipes might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a title=\"Link Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn27263-anglo-saxon-remedy-kills-hospital-superbug-mrsa.html#.VRp32mOLfNw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marius Hoppe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together\u2026 take wine and bullocks gall, mix with the leek\u2026 let it stand nine days in the brass vessel\u2026&#8221; The modern recreation of this Anglo-Saxon recipe from 9th century A.D., now housed in the British Library as part of the old English medical compendium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}