Irish Churchyard Soil Healing

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Ireland Churchyard

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People claim the soil from this Irish churchyard has healing properties and it turns out they're right

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A small churchyard in a hamlet called Boho in northern Ireland has soil that is rumored to have magical healing powers.

A local folk healer supposedly said on his death bed that the soil would cure anything that he was able to cure when he was with you when I was still alive.

The soil contained Streptomyces, a bacteria that’s found in alkaline environments, which is responsible for producing two-thirds of all antibiotics we currently use.

“Our discovery is an important step forward in the fight against antibiotic resistance,” wrote Quinn and Swansea microbiologist Paul Dyson in an article in Newsweek . “The discovery of antimicrobial substances will help in our search for new drugs to treat multi-resistant bacteria, the cause of many dangerous and lethal infections.” The Swansea team is currently identifying strains of bacteria from the soil and testing them against other multi-resistant pathogens. Lesson learned: Sometimes old wives tales aren’t “tales” at all—they can actually save lives..

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