All we know about saliva is that it is a watery substance secreted in the mouths of animals. Now it's time for us to know a few facts about the human saliva.....
- It has been found in a new study that an enzyme present in human saliva acts as a natural painkiller. It is six times more effective than the regularly used ones.
- Human saliva is a natural antiseptic . It has been proved by scientists that licking an wound would lead to faster healing.
- Saliva can be used to determine your age. The DNA in your saliva keeps changing as time rolls over. Our DNA's age ie., the biological age does not always match up with our chronological age so the recorded age is narrowed down to a five year gap.
- This is really important..... your saliva can be really dangerous to birds. This is because it could be toxic to birds such as parrots.....so please don't attempt to feed them food that you chewed or kiss them, etc this could make them really sick.....
- And also please don't bite others...wanna know why here you go.... Our saliva contains certain elements that when comes into contact with any part of a human body causes swelling, discoloration and also local pain. Causing healing of wounds is different from this so never ever attempt to do this.
- A vampire bat's saliva can be used to treat strokes. It contains an enzyme called desmoteplase which can be used to treat stroke patients.