Back in the 12th Century Mongolian warriors overcame much larger armies to establish the greatest empire the world had ever seen, but how?

For many years it was known their army suffered less fatalities, but we didn’t know why. Then in 1936 a Hungarian bio-scientist called Szent Gyorgy found some long lost Mongolian manuscripts describing a dressing for war wounds, using locally available natural ingredients such as citrus fruit, olives, and tree bark. Professor Gyorgy discovered that the dressing somehow sterilised a flesh wound, and then protected it from infection for several hours afterwards. The wounded soldiers recovered, returned to battle, and overcame their enemies eventually, with numerical supremacy.

His studies found a reaction between the three ingredients would create a natural antidote to infection, which he named ‘Bioflavenoids’, his work was recognised when, in 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sadly, although Professor Gyorgy had discovered the principles of Bioflavenoids, he never quite managed to recreate the recipe beyond theory into reality, and his ground-breaking work was sadly overlooked in the following years.

The story then moves to England when in the 1990’s three Professors from Middlesbrough University re-visited the work of Professor Gyorgy and managed to re-create the Mongols recipe, and discovered a set of results that are set to revolutionise the thinking of how to control disease and infection.

If you use chemicals to kill a bug, as is the traditional man-made solution, the packaging will say ‘kills 99.9% of all germs....’ but the 0.1% left in a 1 gram infected sample will contain at least 10 surviving bugs, they will re-group in a different form that over time becomes resistant to the chemical which used to kill them.  The chemical then either has to be revised, or made stronger to combat the ‘intelligence’ of the bugs.  This is why the medical world is so concerned about our over reliance on anti-biotics, the flu-bugs come back each time more resistant to the man-made immunisation treatment, but with each re-incarnation they are not only different, but also more complex, and therefore much harder to kill.

If you step back from the desire to kill a bug, all we really want is for it not to harm us, so why not simply keep the bug at a stage of immaturity where it is neutralised and cannot harm us, that is what probiotics does, that is what nature does, and that is what One hand gel does.  By harvesting the ability of citrus fruit, olives, and tree bark to prevent the growth of germs, they are rendered harmless to us, but are not being attacked, so do not re-group in a different, stronger, structure.  If you see a lion in a cage, you don’t shoot it, it has been rendered harmless to you by the cage, the same applies to a bug, good and bad bugs exist in perfect balance in nature, it is only man-made chemicals that upset the balance, so using nature to restore the balance has to be a powerful option.