He recounted : ‘The word has got around about how this substance from pig bladders has got this wizardry capability to grow new tissue.

We think that it draws cells in the body that have the facility to multiply and gives them a chemical signal to make new tissue. ‘

Professor Wolf – boss of medical tests at the North American Army’s Institute for Surgical Research is going to start a formal trial using ‘pixie dust’ on bomb victims after the successful treatment of a few blast victims last year.

Corporal Hernandez, a 25-year-old sea, was hurt in 2008, in a situation in which a co-worker died.

‘Before I had the sheets made of pigs bladder put into my leg I could barely use it. I had to creep upstairs or take the lift and I was either on sticks or in a wheelchair. It was just about pointless.

Now my leg is back to 35 percent strength and I am ready to get out on my mountain bicycle and I’ll walk as far as I desire.

He had a gaping, crater-like wound, in his thigh down to the bone and doctors had no method of replacing the muscle and other tissue that had been blown away.

Magically over a period of one or two weeks new tissue and muscle grew until the wound was filled.

It was sort of a sight to see the body regenerate in this fashion because during the past we haven’t managed to replace muscle and tissue once it’s been lost. ‘

The Additional Cellular Matrix grew nerves, standard tissue and muscle where there had been none.

It is extraordinary stuff I suspect it is a great name for something that appears to work like wizardry.