Overview of Honey's Health Benefits to be Published

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Home Remedies: Honey for Wounds

By Keith Hopcroft, The Times (UK), 2/4/2006

 

SEE: www.apitherapynews.com

 

A reader writes that honey is excellent for healing wounds and

preventing infection.

 

This reader is probably right. Honey has been used as a wound

treatment for centuries, applied either directly or via a dressing.

 

Honey stimulates tissue growth and tends to draw moisture into the

area, both of which promote healing. Also, it seems to speed up the

destruction and removal of dead tissue, while its antibacterial

properties may help to prevent infection.

 

The Cochrane Library, the bible of evidence-based medicine, is

preparing the definitive overview of all the relevant science on

honey's purported benefits and should publish soon. . .