Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by notgood on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:01PM
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[deleted: sorry my bad, I thought it was a sarcastic comment]
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Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by alisson on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:22PM
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It wasn't my intention to be sarcastic, english is my second language so maybe it was that, but anyway my main source is that its a tradicional and indigenous use of banana peel (thanks for pointing out its not skin. I never tried to search for the science behind it, I found this:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-86502013000100006&...
Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by SmellTheGlove on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:24PM
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You didn't come off as sarcastic. It sounded to me that you were matter of factly pointing out something that you use as a skin remedy, in an entirely unoffensive way. Don't worry about it, your English is fine.
Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by ChristianGeek on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:32PM
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Your English is fine...I also took it as sarcasm because it sounded so implausible.
Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by jen_h on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:17PM
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There's actually a lot of research behind what you're talking about -- you'll find more looking for plantain or "Plantago Major L" and search NIH (restrict the search using site:nih.gov if you're using Google or DuckDuckGo).