Thursday, December 27, 2007
SWEET RELIEF: Honey Heals
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and non-healing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature's original antibiotic - honey - is making a comeback.
More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., began selling the first honey-based dressing this fall after it was approved by the FDA.
Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Manuka honey comes from hives of bees that collect nectar from manuka and jelly bushes in Australia and New Zealand.
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More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., began selling the first honey-based dressing this fall after it was approved by the FDA.
Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Manuka honey comes from hives of bees that collect nectar from manuka and jelly bushes in Australia and New Zealand.
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Labels: antibiotics, honey, manuka honey, natural therapy
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