Cut yourself? Tribal remedy of sprinkling SUGAR on wound heals it faster

Rubbing sugar into wounds could cure painful infections including bedsores, research shows.

The traditional African remedy is being trialled in British hospitals after a study led by a senior nurse raised in Zimbabwe.

As a child, Moses Murandu watched his father put crushed sugar cane on villagers' wounds and grew up thinking it was a widely used treatment. When he moved to England he was surprised to find doctors did not use it. His six-month study involved 21 patients at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham whose wounds had not responded to conventional treatment.

It showed that pouring granulated sugar on to bed sores, leg ulcers or amputations before dressing can kill the bacteria that prevents healing and causes chronic pain. Bacteria need water to survive but sugar draws water from the wound into the dressing.

Mr Murandu, 43, believes the technique, which was passed down from his great-grandfather, could save the NHS billions.

'The village where I grew up was very small and we didn't have a great deal of medicine available to us,' he said. 'Doctors here tend to forget the traditional medicines that have been working for thousands of years.'

Source - Daily Mail