Sugar Heals Wounds Faster
“A British-based scientist has won a $37,000 grant to develop an African tribal remedy of healing wounds – with SUGAR. Zimbabwean-born Moses Murandu, 43, stunned doctors when he sprinkled granulated sugar on infected cuts to heal them earlier this year. Incredibly, the ancient remedy cured 21 patients quicker than conventional medicines. Bosses at the Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham have been so impressed that he has been awarded $37,000 to treat up to 100 more patients with sugar. Delighted Moses, a medical lecturer from the University of Wolverhampton, said: ‘Using granulated sugar in wounds has never been done in the UK before, although sugar paste has been used. ‘When I was a child, my father used sugar or salt on wounds and I grew up without realising that not everybody else uses it. ‘While salt is painful, sugar is not and it reduces the pain drastically. Sugar is also much cheaper than expensive medicines and it has proven to be just as effective.’ Moses learned the treatment after seeing wounded warriors regularly cured with sugar in the Zimbabwean village where he grew up. He was baffled when he arrived in the UK to find that sugar was not used in any hospitals and funded a six-month pilot study himself.” w/ photo
