article_snippet: A thousand year-old potion made out of onions, garlic, wine and bile from a cow's stomach can kill hospital superbugs, scientists claim.
article_snippet: The potent 10th century brew - used by Anglo Saxons to treat a stye (an abscess on the eyelid) destroyed 90 per cent of the bacteria on scraps of skin taken from mice with MRSA.
article_snippet: A thousand year-old potion made out of onions, garlic, wine and bile from a cow's stomach, has been found to kill off the MRSA superbug .
article_snippet: After using the solution on lab animals with MRSA - one of the most antibiotic-resistant bugs costing modern health services billions - the researchers described their results as 'astonishing.'
article_snippet: The garlic family of plants make chemicals than interfere with bacteria's ability to damage infected tissues.
article_snippet: The remedy was tested on cultures of the commonly found - and hard to treat - bacteria Staphylococcus aureus in both synthetic wounds and in infected wounds in mice.
article_snippet: Only about one bacterial cell in a thousand survived.
article_snippet: Copper and bile salts can kill bacteria and the garlic family of plants make chemicals that interfere with bacteria in the lab's ability to damage infected tissues. '
article_snippet: we tested it in difficult conditions too; we let we artificial "infections" grow into dense,
article_snippet: mature populations called "biofilms", where the individual cells bunch together and make a sticky coating that makes it hard for antibiotics to reach antibiotics. '