Sugar or Honey for Woumd Healing

[Guest guest]

Dr.n Whitaker,MD in his newsletter Health & Healing of August 2010

gives an illustration of the counterintuitive use of topical sugar dressings

to heal open sores and wounds. His specific illustration is for treatment

of diabetic ulcers of the legs that are difficult to heal. The therapy can

be self administered and is readily available to anyone.

At first blush, you might be shocked to think that sugar which is so

commonly denigrated as at best useless and at worst a cancer promoter is an

unlikely choice to attain good health. But it has been used for many years for

wound healing. Dr.Whitaker writes that " sugar dissolves in the fluid of an

open wound and creates an osmotic environment in which no bacteria can

survive....as sugar draws fluid from deep within the wound it reduces edema.

This stimulates the growth of granulation tissue to fill in the wound and the

formation of new skin cells to cover and repair the lesion. The end result

is rapid, consistent and predictable healing of any type of open wound

with minimal scarring. "

This little known and rarely used therapy was written about by Dr.

Knutson,MD in the Southern Medical Journal, a peer reviewed medical

journal, in 1981;Nov ;74(11):1329-1335 " Use of sugar and providone-iodine to

enhance wound healing:five years experience " it also appeared in Medical World

News, which at the time was a leading medical magazine widely distributed to

physicians. Although Knutson used it on over 7,000 patients and tried to

promote it, it was never taken up by most doctors.

The wound must not be currently bleeding. Sugar encourages more bleeding.

The wound must be open.Do not use on Abscesses or pustules that are covered

with skin.

To treat any open wound-burn or laceration, scrape or ulcer.

Mix a couple of tablespoons of white sugar with enough glycerin to form a

thick paste with the consistency of peanut butter.(The glycerin just helps

the sugar stay in place), Honey can be used instead of sugar and yo don't

need glycerin.

Take a 4 " x4 " piece of gauze, pull it into a long strip, coat it with

vaseline, and place it around the outside of the wound(it will act as a dam to

contain the sugar.

Put a thick layer of the sugar/glycerin paste over the wound and cover with

a sponge gauze. Secure with a cling dressing that holds the sugar in

place, but does not constrict it.

Change the dressing every four to six days by removing the gauze, rinsing

the wound with water, saline , or hydrogen peroxide, drying it and applying

fresh sugar/glycerin.

Glycerin, also called glycerol, is sold in drugstores or may be ordered in

bulk on line.

Honey (without glycerin) may be used to substitute for sugar. But Honey is

more expensive than sugar, and sugar works.

Dr.Whitaker has slide illustrations of a lecture he gave on sugar

dressings in the Subscriber Section of his website _www.drwhitaker.com_

(http://www.drwhitaker.com)

But these are password protected.

Arnold