Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat infections. The root of tormentil ( Potentilla erecta ), a small yellow wildflower that grows across Ireland, the UK and Europe, was used for centuries in Irish and European traditional medicine . It was used to treat wounds, sore throats, diarrhoea and gum disease. These traditional uses suggested that tormentil could contain compounds powerful enough to kill microbes. Our latest

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