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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: Pandora on September 23, 2013, 04:58:00 PM

Title: Medicinal use -- honey
Post by: Pandora on September 23, 2013, 04:58:00 PM

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Doctors compared the effects of raw, unheated honey to numerous antibiotics on 28 different strains of pathogenic, multi–drug resistant bacteria associated with burns. Only three of the strains were inhibited at all by any of the 11 antibiotics used in the study; every single one of the 28 strains was inhibited by a 25-percent concentration of honey. Plain, simple, raw honey worked.
David Williams at drdavidwilliams.com

http://www.woodpilereport.com/ (http://www.woodpilereport.com/)

Title: Re: Medicinal use -- honey
Post by: Glock32 on September 23, 2013, 05:40:34 PM

In Eastern Europe an old folk medicine was to use spider webbing as a type of covering or bandage for wounds. There's a particular type of spider there that produces larges masses of silk and people have collected it for centuries. Modern testing confirmed that the proteins in the spider silk have an antibacterial property which is why it worked so well at promoting wounds to heal.

Title: Re: Medicinal use -- honey
Post by: RickZ on September 23, 2013, 06:08:07 PM

IIRC, honey is the only natural food that does not go bad/spoil.  Another reason for it being used for so many millennia.

Title: Re: Medicinal use -- honey
Post by: Libertas on September 24, 2013, 07:01:47 AM

So, if I trip and fall into a patch of stinging nettles I can just slather on the honey and heal quicker?