The maggot therapy …..A new discovery

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td colspan="2">Allah almighty put some healing abilities in the flies to benefit the human…. Let us read…

Researchers
say that the surface of flies is the last place we would expect to find
antibiotics, yet that is exactly where a team of Australian researchers
is concentrating their efforts.

Working
on the theory that flies must have remarkable antimicrobial defenses to
survive rotting dung, meat and fruit, the team at the Department of Biological Sciences,
Macquarie University, set out to identify those antibacterial
properties manifesting at different stages of a fly's development.

"Our
research is a small part of a global research effort for new
antibiotics, but we are looking where we believe no-one has looked
before," said Ms Joanne Clarke, who presented the group's findings at
the Australian Society for Microbiology Conference in Melbourne this week. The project is part of her PhD thesis.

The
scientists tested four different species of fly: a house fly, a sheep
blowfly, a vinegar fruit fly and the control, a Queensland
fruit fly which lays its eggs in fresh fruit. These larvae do not need
as much antibacterial compound because they do not come into contact
with as much bacteria.

Flies
go through the life stages of larvae and pupae before becoming adults.
In the pupae stage, the fly is encased in a protective casing and does
not feed. "We predicted they would not produce many antibiotics," said
Ms Clarke.

They did not. However the larvae all showed antibacterial properties (except that of the Queensland fruit fly control).

"We
are now trying to identify the specific antibacterial compounds," said
Ms Clarke. Ultimately these will be chemically synthesized.

Because
the compounds are not from bacteria, any genes conferring resistance to
them may not be as easily transferred into pathogens. It is hoped this
new form of antibiotics will have a longer effective therapeutic life.

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The outer surface of the fly contains antibiotics which can be isolated and used in irremediable diseases

In Russia, Scientists from St. Petersburg
had reached the same result as they discovered that one of the
strongest therapeutic effects is that produced by some of the fly
maggots. The head of the research Sergey Chernysh says: "During the wars with
Napoleon it was noticed that soldiers left on the battlefields died of
blood poisoning but not if they had the maggots in their wounds. They
were healed because the maggots were eating the dead tissue while
secreting a certain recuperating ferment."

They
saturated the wound with certain antibiotics that facilitated the quick
healing. Famous Russian surgeon Pirogov used the maggots during the
Crimean War. They saved thousands of lives during the World War I as
well”.

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Also
in Germany, Dr. Wim Fleischman, head of the emergency department at
Petejehaim hospital had proved that larva of the fly can heal injuries,
also Dr. Martin Auster who is a surgeon at the same hospital says that
he used larva in healing wounds and in some cases of bones Chronic
inflammation.

Doctors confirm that larvae can efficiently heal diabetes, Bedsores and bones infection.

Today,
the International Textile Research Centre, Hohenstein Institute, is
working on wound dressings containing substances derived from maggots
which support the healing process. After flies lay their eggs, it will
be transferred to be placed on wounds to encourage the healing process.

In Qur'an Allah almighty says: (O
mankind! A similitude has been coined, so listen to it (carefully):
Verily those on whom you call besides Allah, cannot create (even) a
fly, even though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly
snatches away a thing from them, they will have no power to release it
from the fly. So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought.)(Sûrat Al-Hajj-verse73),
in this verse Allah wants us to understand how much this insect is
important and to know that He almighty didn't create it without purpose
as He says in another verse: (And has
subjected to you all that is in the heavens and all that is in the
earth; it is all as a favour and kindness from Him. Verily, in it are
signs for a people who think deeply.)(Sûrat Al-Jâthiyah-verse 13).

Also prophet Mohamed (Peace be upon him) tells us about the benefit of the fly: ("If
a fly falls in the vessel of any of you, let him dip all of it (into
the vessel) and then throw it away, for in one of its wings there is a
disease and in the other there is healing (antidote for it) i e. the
treatment for that disease.")( Narrated by Abu Huraira).

Let us think rationally, who told that illiterate prophet about this scientific fact 1400 years ago?
The answer is Allah, the knower of everything who says in His holy book: (Do
they not then consider the Qur'an carefully? Had it been from other
than Allah, they would surely have found therein many a contradiction.)(Sûrat An-Nisâ’-verse82)

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