Woman Cures Herself of Disease by Eating Tree Bark

In the "don’t try this at home" category -- Marlene Barnes, a 72-year-old grandmother in Wales, claims she healed herself of a disease with no known cure by eating tree bark. Barnes started munching on wood chips after suffering for 48 years with the bowel condition Crohn’s disease, reports the U.K. tabloid The Sun.

Marlene may be barking up the right tree. Ten years have gone by and her doctors confirm that she no longer has any trace of the illness. Barnes, who had part of her colon removed after being diagnosed with Crohn's at age 14, explained, "I'd tried everything to stop it but nothing worked. Then I read of bark's medicinal properties and felt it was worth a go."

She started peeling bark off trees, then dried and ground it up before consuming it. She said, "I ate hazel bark first and it felt like a dozen ferrets fighting in my stomach. I thought I'd die, but I began to feel better than I'd done in ages. I then tried lots of trees to work out which were the real miracle cures. It was just trial and error. I nearly poisoned myself so many times but now I feel wonderful."

POSTED BY: Marilyn