Most of us just throw our head back with some tissue in our nose.

Researchers say that "cured salted pork" can cure innumerable ailments including depression, unwanted skinnyness, and food boredom. It's long been a folk cure for bloody noses but is it true?

The Guardian reported, "Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, at Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan, treated a girl who had a rare hereditary disorder that brings prolongued bleeding. Publishing in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, they pack the essential details into two sentences:

"Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and packed within the nasal vaults successfully stopped nasal hemorrhage promptly, effectively, and without sequelae … To our knowledge, this represents the first description of nasal packing with strips of cured pork for treatment of life-threatening hemorrhage in a patient with Glanzmann thrombasthenia."

So basically it will work but how many of us suffer from prolongued nose bleeding?

The most compelling part of the bacon cure is that once your nose bleed is gone you can cook the bacon and make a BLT. Yes, I'm kidding. (c) tPC