honey as medicine

[Guest guest]

I have a friend whose father kept bees. Recently, he also started

some beehives and started producing honey using traditional methods

which do not heat the honey during extraction.

I was surprised at the claims that he made about raw honey, so I

decided to do a little searching. It turn out that raw honey has some

enzymes that kill bacteria, fungi, and yeasts. Studies such as the

following show that raw honey even kills MRSA.

Medical-grade honey kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria in vitro and

eradicates skin colonization. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Jun

1;46(11):1677-82, PMID: 18433338

Some of the studies have used Revamil, a trade mark for raw honey

collected under controlled conditions. A web site for this product is:

http://www.bfactory.nl/vision.htm

There seems to be a lot of research supporting the antibiotic

properties of honey. Of course, since sugary solutions ferment so

quickly to make beer and wine, the bees have methods of preserving

their sweet honey from getting spoiled by fungi and bacteria. They

have several million years of evolution on their side.

Tony

http://scientificpsychic.com/blog/2008/10/14/antibacterial-properties-of-raw-hon\

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