There was an amazing TV show on PBS about maggots and wound care a couple years ago. The folks who were using them were faced with losing a foot or a leg. Often they were diabetics whose micro-circulation was poor or for some other reason the needed blood levels of antibiotics was just not getting to the site of infection. DMSO and CS would, however, be my first choice.
Speaking of the "old ways" leeches are also still used, a European variety, not the domestic species. They are also used in hard to heal wounds. All I can remember at the moment is that they secret an anti-coagulant substance that facilitated the process. Here's to the forgotten ways being remembered. Garnet On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:18, Sally Khanna wrote: > Really? I thought that had died out, but did hear of it for things > like osteomyelitis when I was a kid. It sounds like a good way of > getting rid of necrotic tissue. > > Sally > > Garnet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:52, himagain wrote: > > > Hi Paul and folks, > > Even when they have a lot of water available ( in towns) > they only drink > > what they NEED. They are amazed at how silly we are. Mind > you, they are > > using a much more advanced form of medicine than us. The > Arabs got it from > > India ( like mathematics and the fabled "Arabian" zero) and > it passed ( no > > pun) into folklore. Like using maggots in an infective > wound. > > > Maggots are still used to clean infected wounds, here in the > US. > > Garnet > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal > Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: > http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-T! opic messages to: > [email protected] > OT Archive: > http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do?
