Infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, an abscess in the armpit of a woman pouring long after it was drained. Nothing seemed to help, and the pain prevented them from working. This has remained for 20 years, but then in August 1999, he read the extraordinary healing properties of wounds in a particular type of honey found only in New Zealand, called Manuka Honey. " Asked their doctors to accept the dressing to the wound on his arm, and apply one month after injurymiraculously healed. Now it's back to work.
Novel as this treatment sounds, it would have bored some doctors in ancient Egypt, according to Frank Buonanotte, CEO of honey international brand, producing products Manuka honey for health care. "The honey used for centuries to treat a wide range of medical problems like wounds, burns, cataracts, skin ulcers and scrapes," he says. "And now various researchers worldwide are finding strong antimicrobial properties in ManukaHoney. "
Honey is disgraced as a wound dressing when antibiotics were developed during World War II boards. However, the results of new research and the increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria implementation of this drug chest of old-time folk medicine. Last year, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (the equivalent of about Food and Drug Administration) approved honey as medicine. Honey Mark was using this incredible natural resource in health careand surprising results.
Manuka Honey helps wounds in several ways, says Goodnight. Its thickness provides a protective barrier. The hydrogen peroxide it contains is released slowly, killing germs in the wound. It also reduces inflammation accelerates the growth of healthy tissue. Manuka honey from even the smell in the wounds, perhaps because when bacteria in wounds eat the sugars of honey, they give off a sweet-smelling gas. Dozens of studies have documented howAdvantages.
One of the most convincing reports in the 1998 edition of the magazine published Burns, tells how researchers from the Dr. VM Medical College in Maharashtra, India, Manuka honey compared to silver sulfadiazine, the standard treatment for superficial burns. The researchers first smeared with Manuka honey on gauze and used it to dress the burns of 52 patients. Other 52 patients received the same treatment but with silver sulfadiazine in place of honey. In the 52 treated patientswith honey, 87% healed within 15 days, compared with 10% of those treated with silver sulfadiazine. Patients treated with honey also experienced less pain, leaking of wound fluid and scar formation.
Molana Dr Peter, a biochemist at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and others have specific properties to kill bacteria found in Manuka Honey. In laboratory experiments, in November 1992 Journal of Applied Bacteriology, Molana and his colleagues reported that Manuka Honey foundIt has been particularly successful in killing Staphylococcus aureus. This so-called "Golden Staph" sometimes survived stronger antibiotics to kill their victims. "Manuka Honey in desperate cases where nothing else has worked, it works," says Molana.
Previous studies have found no negative side effects of Manuka honey. Experts warn that young children do not even have to eat honey, because the risk of botulism. "But it's still OK honey for children (and babies), cuts, burns or abrasions, use"Molana said.
