MUSHROOM BANDAGE

Combining alternative medicine and recycling brings us a new age of medical products.  Filipino scientists invented a cheap bandage with healing properties, using agro-industrial waste with indigenous mushroom:

Santiago and Flores said the chitosan compound in volvariella volvacea induces the repair of tissues while inhibiting microbial growth. It is also non-toxic, non-allergenic, biodegradable, hydrophilic and permeates oxygen.

This invention goes beyond alternative medicine as it opens new opportunities for business and intellectual property, as well as it creates new ways to use agro waste.