beatadje

Honey applied topically on the sore will heal the sore
very fast.

I can't think of a better choice then honey for that matter.

Manuka honey, wild flower honey etc.

Perl Molson


The Healing Power of Honey


As an infant hidden away in a cave, the Greek god Zeus was kept
alive by bees that fed him honey. In return for their hospitality,
Zeus gave bees high intelligence. But honey is not just mythological
nourishment for the gods. Actual Egyptian medical texts dating from
2600 to 2200 BC mention honey in at least 900 remedies. Many early
cultures hailed honey for its sweetness, nutritional value, and its
topical healing properties for wounds, sores, and skin ulcers. During
wartime, honey was used as an antiseptic for wounds by ancient
Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Chinese, and modern Germans as late as
World War I.

Today, people use honey for cough preparations, to induce sleep,
cure diarrhea, and treat asthma. From a scientific standpoint, there
have been numerous studies over the last 20 years verifying the power
of honey to heal wounds and topical ulcers. An ****ysis of 40 cases
showed that honey used on wounds had a positive effect, with an 88
percent healing rate. Other studies demonstrate the effectiveness of
honey in treating Helicobacter pylori, bums, and senile cataracts
among others. A recent study showed that commercial honey applied to
surgical wounds in mice appeared to impede tumors that researchers
attempted to subsequently implant in the mice for cancer research.

Three key ingredients in honey are responsible for its
wound-healing capabilities. Honey has high sugar content. Sugar
absorbs moisture in wounds, making it difficult for bacteria to
survive.

Many kinds of honey are high in hydrogen peroxide, a common household
disinfectant. Honey also contains propolis, a compound in nectar that
can kill bacteria.

Honey is not just useful as a topical. Manuka honey, produced when
bees feed on a type of flower in New Zealand, appears to kill the
bacteria that causes stomach ulcers. Honey may also treat diarrhea.
Doctors have traditionally used sugar to treat diarrhea as it replaces
fluids and essential minerals. A honey solution may prove to be more
efficacious because it may also be able to kill problem bacteria.

http://www.naturetech.com/healthyes.html


Facts Supporting the use of Honey in Wound Care
The antimicrobial property of honey has been recognised for over 80
years, and has been studied by numerous microbiologists since then7.
The high sugar content of honey is itself sufficient to inhibit the
growth of bacteria and fungi, but this action is lost when the honey
becomes diluted, as when lymph seeps out from a wound or ulcer into a
honey dressing. But honey contains other antimicrobial components as
well. In most honeys the major antimicrobial activity is due to
hydrogen peroxide. This is produced by the action of an enzyme in
honey. The enzyme is inactive until honey becomes diluted as honey
contains an inhibitor of this enzyme. Thus levels of hydrogen peroxide
never get high enough to cause any harm to the wound tissues. It is
not possible to get too high a level of hydrogen peroxide produced
from honey – the rate of production is near flat over a very wide
range of concentrations of honey solutions due to the strong
inhibition in high concentrations of honey. Honey also effectively
gives a "slow-release" delivery of hydrogen peroxide, as the enzyme
keeps on producing hydrogen peroxide over at least 24 hours.

The glucose oxidase enzyme in honey that is responsible for the
production of hydrogen peroxide, is very easily inactivated by
exposure to heat. Even prolonged storage of honey in warm conditions
will cause substantial inactivation. The enzyme is also inactivated by
exposure of honey to light. There may additionally be some
plant-derived antimicrobial action from components of the nectar
sources of the honey, but this is usually minor. However, research in
New Zealand and Australia has found that some Leptospermum species
give honey a high level of antimicrobial activity due to an as yet
unidentified plant-derived component8. This is potentially very
useful, as an enzyme present in serum and tissues, catalase, breaks
down hydrogen peroxide. Thus some (maybe a lot) of the hydrogen
peroxide produced from honey on a wound may be rendered ineffective,
making the other antimicrobial components of greater importance.
Microbiological research on this antimicrobial component has shown
that it is particularly effective against Staphylococcus aureus, the
most common wound-infecting pathogen. A typical Leptospermum honey,
with catalase added to remove all hydrogen peroxide, could be diluted
more than fifty times and still completely halt the growth of
Staphylococcus aureus9. A similar effectiveness was seen with a
typical Leptospermum honey when tested against a collection of strains
of multi-resistant S.aureus, and a 10 to 20-fold dilution gave
complete inhibition of twenty strains of Pseudomonas isolated from
infected wounds11.

Very large differences have been found to occur in the potency of the
antimicrobial activity of honeys12. This has been found to be mostly
due to differences in the amount of hydrogen peroxide that is
produced. But in Leptospermum honeys, very large differences also
occur in the plant-derived antimicrobial component8. Therefore, it is
important that honey to be used as a wound dressing, has had its
antimicrobial activity tested to ensure that it is at a high level.

http://www.medihoney.com.au/the_antimicrobial_activity_of_honey.htm


http://www.google.ca/search?q=honey+are+high+in+hydrogen+peroxide&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1

angela

To those of you that are newly diagnosed with herpes and reading Perl's
messages for the first time ... remember that honey has not been proven to
heal a visible and active herpes outbreak. Also, honey has not been proven
to reduce shedding or transmission when it comes to treating herpes.

Angela
http://www.yoshi2me.com

m.l.s.

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:28:08 -0600, "Angela"
<no_reply@zippetydoodah.com> posted:

For the best healing properties, the honey Perl cited, which comes
from New Zealand and Australia, should be combined with phyllo dough,
spices, a few nuts, and some lemon juice, to make a nice baklava.
Eat one piece every day and you'll feel better all over.

Mike Soja

grant

Hi Mike,

Just thought I'd let you know that I, personally, don't like baklava and
really resent your bad information and your bad advice that it will make you
feel better all over.

Just kidding. Well, not about the part where I said I didn't like baklava.
I really don't. Blech.

ar

tim fitzmaurice

Not me - Id be face down worshipping the porcelain alter for about a
week..some pleasant antibodies on my gut lining tend to kick off around
honey so its a personal thing >

Tim
--
When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart
ICQ: 5178568

m.l.s.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:19:00 +0000, Tim Fitzmaurice
<tjf11@cus.cam.ac.uk> posted:

Wow, I don't know that I'd ever heard of that. What kind of
antibodies? What are they attacking?

I was wondering, is most honey pasteurized these days? Maybe you get
a less refined product in England and the continent? There must be
all kinds of variable things in raw honey. Bee parts, comb parts,
honey equipment processing parts.

Can you drink Mead?

Take care,

Mike

m.l.s.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:46:44 GMT, "Grant" <hatetheviruses@hiding.com>
posted:


AR! Not like Baklava??? Oh, my. There goes our big fat Greek
wedding. ;-)

Actually, I like it, but it makes my teeth hurt. Too sweet. So I
don't eat it. It was all I could think of on the spur of the moment
that used a lotta honey. I'm more of a maple syrup kinda person.

Did you know that maple syrup from certain kinds of trees (maple
trees, I think) has been used for hundreds of years to treat an
affliction called morning hunger? Yep, put it on your pancakes.

And, if this cold wave keeps up, the syrup harvest might even add up
to something this Spring.

take care,

Mike

tim fitzmaurice

Gut IgA is the type of antibody. It causes a assive but local response in
the smooth muscle of the gut with predicatable results from the
spasms...why it last s so long is a bit vague but having sat down with 3
postdocs and one prof in my last year of Bachelors study when I was doing
immunology that was the conclusion they reached. The length could be due
to certain cytotines that kick off and remain or longer term binding by
the antibody. Skin contact doesnt affect me at all, nor theoretically
would iv or wound contact since the reaction is strictly localised.

THe most likely allergens are pollen and the big sugars Im told. Since I
dont have hayfever or grass/pollen allergies at all this leaves the
sugars - which may also act as superantigens they say....

It takes a pretty predicatble 90mins to 2 hours to build up and it has an
unmistakable feel to it which usually lets me get home if Im not
distracted by anything.

All in all they called me weird.....

Now there is a story there.....a very messy night where seeral people
didnt believe me on the issue and slipped me some - didnt believe me when
I started going slightly out of it later (I had been on the organic
scrumpy which they decided was what was affecting me) - but did beleive me
the next morning as I was still being ill at 20 minute interval and
remained that way for 48hrs and slowly recovered over the next 4 days....

THe answer is no - and I had swallowed a mouthfull of mead in the example
above....its pretty sensitve now and gets worse each time it kicks off
either longer recovery, more violent reaction or less needed to get it
going.

Tim
--
When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart
ICQ: 5178568

m.l.s.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:00:06 +0000, Tim Fitzmaurice
<tjf11@cus.cam.ac.uk> posted:

Sounds really horrible. Do you have to be careful about breads and
cereals where sometimes people use honey in place of some of the
sugar?

You're not allergic to bee stings, are you?

Mike

angela

Ha - Ha - Ha!!!

I should pull out our family's baklava recipe and share it with you guys!!!


Did I ever tell you guys that I have Greek blood flowing through my veins?

*Hugs*

Angela
http://www.yoshi2me.com

PS That would be Angeliki in Greek!