Honey-the ultimate antibiotic?

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: crinkles
Does it help for white tip spiders?
I have some Yellow Box and Blue Gum honey at the moment. Almost picked up Manuka honey this AM.


We had dinner today with a horribly scarred local girl who was facing amputation over a decade ago due to a white tip...honey literally saved her arm...or caused a massive placebo effec which saved her arm.

Manuka honey has various "potencies" (bad word, there's a proper one that escapes me)...and the more active ones are way more expensive.

As the the "honey is sugar' crowd, honey is mostly sugar, but as pointed out by "honey is sugar" proponent, there ARE active ingredients in it which behave like drugs mimicking nature.

e.g. sugar is sugar, but cattlemen buy the molasses for nutrition rather than calories.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: spock1
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
after watching my poor burnt up friend heal his wounds with it I am inclined to agree.

Tell me Mr. Spock, is this all you do? Or do you have a day job?

Yes I do have a full time day job,and what does having a full time job have to do with honey?
Knowing about the antibiotic properties of honey could save your life or the life of a loved one in a survival situation.

Well, it seems you are the lead poster of this type of subject.

Your pure altruism impresses me.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: Silk
I just like my food closer to the source and less processed....because I can.


Same here. I wish more people would support local farmers.

 

[acceptablename]

Get that stuff regulated. J&J will buy a patent for $1 trillion and sell it for $50 an ounce.

 

[Silk]

Manuka honey was just bush honey in NZ, as manuka and kanuka are the predominant tree at native forest margins. Probably the most common tree in the country. We call it Tea Tree because Captain Cook brewed a tea from it to help with scurvy. Then it was discovered to have magical properties and is now the most expensive honey you can buy.

 

[IndyIan]

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: Silk
I just like my food closer to the source and less processed....because I can.


Same here. I wish more people would support local farmers.

Probably most folks in the US do have a local source of honey. If there's almost any agriculture going on there is a bee keeper with hives stashed all over the area.
We buy about $100/year in honey from our local bee keeper, our favourite is from the Purple Loosestrife hives, but the clover ones are OK too. We still use some sugar for baking, but I use honey even in my coffee.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Same here. You won't find a speck of processed sugar in my house.

Only raw honey from my local bees.

 

[Drew99GT]

The Ace Hardware store a few blocks from my house has local honey! I might try it instead of the heaping spoonful of white sugar I put in my coffee.

 

[greenaccord02]

I use some local, minimally processed honey on a lot of things. Sometimes it's better than sugar, sometimes not. I don't do it for health reasons, but for taste. Good enough reason for me.

 

[IndyIan]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
The Ace Hardware store a few blocks from my house has local honey! I might try it instead of the heaping spoonful of white sugar I put in my coffee.

You might as well try it, honey does have some of its own flavour so you can use less than sugar but still taste "sweet" so the cost might even out. In any case its good to give your Ace Hardware store some business too.