Rubbing Sugar Into Injury – The Tribal Way To Prompt Healing

A study has shown that a mere rub down with sugar could have remedial effect on agonizing bed sores.

The conventional African antidote is undergoing trail in hospitals in Britain subsequent to a study helmed by a senior nurse bought up in Zimbabwe.

During his childhood, Moses Murandu observed that his father applied squashed sugar cane to the injuries of the villagers and grew up believing that it was a commonly employed treatment. When he shifted base to England, he was astonished and in utter dismay to see that doctors didn’t use this beneficial method.

The study that spanned 6 months had 21 candidates from Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, having wounds that seemed to be showing no improvement despite the usual line of treatment. The study revealed that by sprinkling powdered sugar over bed sores, leg ulcers or amputated wounds prior to bandaging could help in killing the bacteria that impeded recuperation and led to acute pain.

Bacteria require water for their survival, but sugar is believed to sop up all the water present in the wound into the bandage.

43-year-old Moses Murandu is a firm believer of this technique that has been handed down since generations, would help save a lot of money. He stated that the village in which he was brought up was tiny and there was dearth of any kind of medicines. He further added that the British doctors have a tendency of forgetting that conventional medications have proven their efficacy for thousands of years.

The superiors at the Sally Oak Hospital, Birmingham are so stupefied by Murandu’s finding that they have gifted him twenty-five thousand pounds for treating nearly hundred patients employing just sugar.

Elated Moses, a medical lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton stated that it is the foremost time in the UK that the use of granular sugar on wounds would be done, though sugar paste has been earlier employed.

He stated that as salt could cause stinging and painful sensation in the wounds, sugar would on the contrary significantly allay the pain. Sugar is also definitely much cheap as compared to the costly medicines and has proven effectiveness.

If this line of treatment is widely adopted, billions of pounds which are presently being shelled out on medications could be saved.

This treatment is a boon for those patients with incapacitating and dreadful wounds that have meagre hope of improvement.

Moses would be using the twenty-five thousand pounds he received from Herve Le Lous – a French-based company to carry out a broader-ranging study that would treat nearly hundred patients from 4 different hospitals.

Though curing wounds using sugar has been a Granma’s tale since many years, however, this the foremost instance when there has been medical proof that backs its effectiveness.

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