Naturkraft discovered garden bacteria against allergies and atopic dermatitis

Bacteria contain substances that cure diseases. For example, probiotic bacteria help fight inflammation of the intestines, and probiotic drugs open up perspectives against allergies, atopic dermatitis, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.

Deadly bacteria
Bacteria are considered as pathogens, and even serve as a weapon for biological warfare: plagues such as salmonella, the plague and anthrax, tuberculosis, botulism or snot put the microorganisms in a deadly light.

Bacteria in the soil of large cities offer untapped potential for drugs against multiple diseases (Dr.Utz Anhalt)

Useful bacteria
The vast majority of bacteria are harmless and many are vital. Bacteria attach themselves to our skin as a living shield, digesting our food in the gut and decomposing our garbage.

With bacteria we make sourdough as well as sauerkraut, yoghurt, cheese, wine and vinegar, hormones like enzymes.

soil bacteria
Bacteria enable plant life. A compost heap is a bacterial factory. The microorganisms decompose dead material into humus soil, which provides plants with access to nutrients.

Likewise, bacteria cleanse wastewater.

Remedies on the doorstep
New York scientists now found out: Medically valuable bacteria cavort in Central Park. The researchers discovered bacterial genes for eleven medicinal drugs in the parks of New York City. These include antibiotics, fungicides and anticancer agents.

Only the beginning
The samples of New York researchers are just the beginning. They almost certainly indicate that quantities of beneficial bacteria are waiting to be discovered - in parks, gardens, compost heaps, and urban brownfields.

Soil bacteria in medicines
Soil bacteria have been used in medicine for a long time: medicines for malaria or parasites, antibiotics such as fungicides are originally derived from bacteria in the soil.

Scientists are optimistic
The New York researchers are hoping for a lot. The head of Charlop-Powers says: "Our analyzes demonstrate the existence of enormous biosynthetic diversity in urban park floors."

Grow bacteria in the garden?
Can Urban Gardening help to multiply such helpful bacteria in the gardens of the big cities? Are allotments becoming a medical laboratory? The practice of medicinal gardens: application and meaning are facing a paradigm shift.

Such bacteria are not pathogens, but they fight disease, and they are most likely to be found in front of the house - in the compost pile. (Dr Utz Anhalt)