{Disarmed} Manuka: A New Cure in Honey

[Guest guest]

DEAR MODERATOR,

IF the honey was already being used by the native people

of the country where this honey was " discovered " , no matter what the use

was, then my answer would be a loud, YES!!

I not only find this patent disturbing but totally

shameful. Patenting is a form of greed IMO.

Josephine

 

Moderator's Note: Does anyone else find patented honey a disturbing idea?

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Manuka: A New Cure in Honey

 

Sunday Business Post (Ireland), 6/10/2007

 

.[Manuka] honey's unique antibacterial qualities were brought to

the attention of the modern world in 1982 by Professor Peter Molan, a

professor of biological sciences and now director of the Honey Research

Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

 

Since then Molan says the honey has been patented for use in clinical

dressings in hospitals in New Zealand, Australia and Britain, and is

used by doctors down under to treat many stomach ailments, including

gastro oesophageal reflux disease...

 

 

 

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