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HONEY REMEDY COULD SAVE LIMBSBy Brandon KeimWiredOctober 11, 2006http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/medtech/1,71925-0.htmlWhen Jennifer Eddy first saw an ulcer on the left foot of her patient, anelderly diabetic man, it was pink and quarter-sized. Fourteen months later,drug-resistant bacteria had made it an unrecognizable black mess.Doctors tried everything they knew -- and failed. After fivehospitalizations, four surgeries and regimens of antibiotics, the man hadlost two toes. Doctors wanted to remove his entire foot."He preferred death to amputation, and everybody agreed he was going to dieif he didn't get an amputation," said Eddy, a professor at the University ofWisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.With standard techniques exhausted, Eddy turned to a treatment used byancient Sumerian physicians, touted in the Talmud and praised byHippocrates: honey. Eddy dressed the wounds in honey-soaked gauze. In justtwo weeks, her patient's ulcers started to heal. Pink flesh replaced black.A year later, he could walk again."I've used honey in a dozen cases since then," said Eddy. "I've yet to haveone that didn't improve."Eddy is one of many doctors to recently rediscover honey as medicine.Abandoned with the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s and subsequentlydisregarded as folk quackery, a growing set of clinical literature anddozens of glowing anecdotes now recommend it.Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food.