Since the beginning of time, humanity has been able to make use of the environment for resources, techniques and ideas to protect themselves from diseases and to be responsible for their health. While the effectiveness of definite ancestral practices has been shown and approved by modern medicine, the reasons behind several traditional medicines remain a mystery.
Moonmilk, a crystallization commonly found in different forms such as pasty, dry or liquid in limestone caves, is a speleothem (geological formation of mineral deposits) most often seen in the form of a soft rock depending on its hygrometry.
As reported by Sébastien Rigali, a molecular microbiologist at the Centre for Protein Engineering-CIP (InBios/Faculty of Science) of the University of Liège, there is a great deal of archaeological proof for its use as an anti-infectious agent, mostly in the Swiss and Austrian Alps.
Rigali’s laboratory decided to examine the microbial flora of moonmilk to discover the reasons for its use in human and animal therapy.
The first step was to go into the caves of the Condruzian plateau to
search for deposits of moonmilk and to isolate filamentous
actinobacteria, the bacteria that are winners in the production of
antimicrobial agents. The scientists found several of them, both in
number and diversity....<<<Read More>>>...
