Honey!

MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
Bees produce an impressive healing agent, but doctors are sceptical.

Honey, it shrinks the pain
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'There is no way I would let anyone treating me or my loved ones put anything except honey on our wounds," says Dr Shona Blair, a post-doctoral microbiology researcher at the University of Sydney.

Blair, who has been researching the properties of honey for more than six years, says there have been a large number of worldwide clinical trials showing that honey applied to various wounds has impressive healing properties.

Blair found that some types of honey are highly effective in killing many bacteria, including golden staph, (Staphylococcus aureus) - a major problem in hospitals because it is resistant to most antibiotics.

Honey also leaves infected wounds very clean, because of its ability to break down the "biofilm" found in many wounds. It also has anti-inflammatory properties, reducing pain, particularly in burns and ulcers. It also can reduce scarring.

Dozens of clinical trials and more than 150 medical journal articles have been published, involving thousands of patients using honey as a wound dressing. Findings have shown that honey is effective in quickly clearing existing infection, protects wounds from further infection, minimises scarring and also reduces wound odours.

Various studies show medical honey to be effective in treating a huge range of injuries, including surgical wounds, burns, infectious wounds, ulcers and pressure sores as well as eczema, dry eye, dental wounds and even nappy rash.

"One of the reasons that I think honey is not more widely accepted in conventional medicine is that it's seen as an 'alternative' treatment," Blair says.

"And despite the good research that does exist, more is still needed. Because no one can patent or 'own' honey, it is less attractive to the big pharmaceutical companies," she says.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/nutrition/honey-it-shrinks-the-pain/2006/06/21/1150845238976.html
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    MrBrian wrote:
    Bees produce an impressive healing agent, but doctors are sceptical.

    Honey, it shrinks the pain
    Email Print Normal font Large font Fran Molloy
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    'There is no way I would let anyone treating me or my loved ones put anything except honey on our wounds," says Dr Shona Blair, a post-doctoral microbiology researcher at the University of Sydney.

    Blair, who has been researching the properties of honey for more than six years, says there have been a large number of worldwide clinical trials showing that honey applied to various wounds has impressive healing properties.

    Blair found that some types of honey are highly effective in killing many bacteria, including golden staph, (Staphylococcus aureus) - a major problem in hospitals because it is resistant to most antibiotics.

    Honey also leaves infected wounds very clean, because of its ability to break down the "biofilm" found in many wounds. It also has anti-inflammatory properties, reducing pain, particularly in burns and ulcers. It also can reduce scarring.

    Dozens of clinical trials and more than 150 medical journal articles have been published, involving thousands of patients using honey as a wound dressing. Findings have shown that honey is effective in quickly clearing existing infection, protects wounds from further infection, minimises scarring and also reduces wound odours.

    Various studies show medical honey to be effective in treating a huge range of injuries, including surgical wounds, burns, infectious wounds, ulcers and pressure sores as well as eczema, dry eye, dental wounds and even nappy rash.

    "One of the reasons that I think honey is not more widely accepted in conventional medicine is that it's seen as an 'alternative' treatment," Blair says.

    "And despite the good research that does exist, more is still needed. Because no one can patent or 'own' honey, it is less attractive to the big pharmaceutical companies," she says.

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/nutrition/honey-it-shrinks-the-pain/2006/06/21/1150845238976.html

    I also read somewhere that bee stings where effective in treating arthritis.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I wonder what they mean by "medical" honey. Is it sterilized differently or just packaged differently?
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  • sicnevolsicnevol Posts: 180
    justam wrote:
    I wonder what they mean by "medical" honey. Is it sterilized differently or just packaged differently?
    http://www.medihoney.com/

    ask them
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    mammasan wrote:
    I also read somewhere that bee stings where effective in treating arthritis.

    Yeah, "bee venom". http://www.beevenom.com/beevenomtherapy.htm
  • LesbelgesLesbelges Posts: 434
    If my wound were covered in honey, I'd lick it, wouldn't you?

    So honey cures dry eye?? I think it would feel pretty weird to have honey in your eye, unless it's some really really diluted form of honey.
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Honey helps problem wounds

    Medihoney more effective than antibiotics -- Bonn-led study to start soon

    This press release is also available in Germany.
    A household remedy millennia old is being reinstated: honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than the most modern antibiotics. For several years now medical experts from the University of Bonn have been clocking up largely positive experience with what is known as medihoney. Even chronic wounds infected with multi-resistant bacteria often healed within a few weeks. In conjunction with colleagues from Düsseldorf, Homburg and Berlin they now want to test the experience gained in a large-scale study, as objective data on the curative properties of honey are thin on the ground.

    The fact that honey can help wounds to heal is something that was known to the Ancient Egyptians several thousand years ago. And in the last two world wars poultices with honey were used to assist the healing process in soldiers' wounds. However, the rise of the new antibiotics replaced this household remedy. 'In hospitals today we are faced with germs which are resistant to almost all the current anti-biotics,' Dr. Arne Simon explains. 'As a result, the medical use of honey is becoming attractive again for the treatment of wounds.'

    Dr. Simon works on the cancer ward of the Bonn University Children's Clinic. As far as the treatment of wounds is concerned, his young patients form part of a high-risk group: the medication used to treat cancer known as cytostatics not only slows down the reproduction of malignant cells, but also impairs the healing process of wounds. 'Normally a skin injury heals in a week, with our children it often takes a month or more,' he says. Moreover, children with leukaemia have a weakened immune system. If a germ enters their bloodstream via a wound, the result may be a fatal case of blood poisoning.

    For several years now Bonn paediatricians have been pioneering the use in Germany of medihoney in treating wounds. Medihoney bears the CE seal for medical products; its quality is regularly tested. The success is astonishing: 'Dead tissue is rejected faster, and the wounds heals more rapidly,' Kai Sofka, wound specialist at the University Children's Clinic, emphasises. 'What is more, changing dressings is less painful, since the poultices are easier to remove without damaging the newly formed layers of skin.' Some wounds often smell unpleasant – an enormous strain on the patient. Yet honey helps here too by reducing the smell. 'Even wounds which consistently refused to heal for years can, in our experience, be brought under control with medihoney – and this frequently happens within a few weeks,' Kai Sofka says.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uob-hhp072706.php
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    its only a matter of time before Big Pharm lobbytists convinve congress to outlaw honey :D
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    justam wrote:
    I wonder what they mean by "medical" honey. Is it sterilized differently or just packaged differently?

    it just costs 10x's more.
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Fri May 4, 5:36 PM ET



    MADISON, United States (AFP) - Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say.

    A doctor at the University of Wisconsin who helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputation has launched a controlled trial to promote the widespread use of honey therapy.

    The therapy involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed.

    The honey kills bacteria because it is acidic and avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics, Jennifer Eddy, a professor at the University's School of Medicine and Public Health, told AFP.

    "This is a tremendously important issue for world health," Eddy said.

    Honey therapy is already used to treat bed sores in New Zealand and as an alternative form of medicine in Europe, but has largely been relegated to history books in the United States.

    Eddy first heard of it in medical school when a professor commented that of all the ancient remedies, honey actually seemed to work when he tried it out in the laboratory.

    She tried honey therapy as a last resort six years ago with a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had developed foot wounds resistant to standard treatments.

    "I tried it only after everything else had failed and... we had essentially sent him home to die," she said. "All antibiotics were stopped when we started honey, and his wounds rapidly healed."

    Eddy hopes to have the trial completed and the results published by 2008 or 2009.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070504/hl_afp/healthscience_070504213618
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    what ya do is this.
    get a jar of honey.
    take your lady friend by her hand.
    lead her to ya'lls love den.
    pour this jar of honey all over her body, unclothed body.
    then dig in, its time to eat.
    she'll be cured of what aisles her.
    and so will you.
    bees rock, bring on the bees.
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