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TheGrange

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:22 pm Post subject: MRSA curing honey
A shortened linky. ï¿½7 a drop eta: well a teaspoon

dpack

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:36 pm Post subject:
honey has a long history of use as a wound dressing ,it need not be anything fancy to kill staphs and many other nasty bugs

Nick

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:39 pm Post subject:
And, likewise, Universities in Wales have a long history of 'alternative' treatments. I don't mean crystals and reiki, but they do a lot of work with maggots on wounds and such. Fascinating (and cheap) work.

jamanda
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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:41 pm Post subject:
What is supposed to be so special about mankuna honey over and above normal honey?

joanne

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:46 pm Post subject:
It's the anti-bacterial properties - old story about it here - I believe its related to the teatree https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3787867.stm

jamanda
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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:47 pm Post subject:
Hmm - but I thought all honey had anti-bacterial qualities. Seems like a bit of good marketing to me.

dpack

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:52 pm Post subject:
the maggot to clean green wounds is another very old method

Nick

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:55 pm Post subject:
It is. And with the addition of modern science it's becoming very useful.

joanne

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:55 pm Post subject:
I think its got even better properties than other honey's and I think that has been scientifically proven

TheGrange

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:58 pm Post subject:

they are going on about its amazing qualities at chelsea flower show.

I know when an 18.2 showjumper i owned nearly lost his leg to an unfortunate wirecut incident, through to the bone, along with maggot therapy we used manuka with surprisingly good results, granulation of the wound site was almost non-existant the final would was vastly reduced and he is totally sound.

the vets prognosis at the time was to have him shot immediately on site, he is currently 13 and was then 4, hes sound as a pound now

Tavascarow

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 4:59 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Hmm - but I thought all honey had anti-bacterial qualities. Seems like a bit of good marketing to me.

Couldn't agree more.
Manuka is the local Kiwi name for leptospermum which is a common garden shrub here. Link.
I suppose any single source honey taken from a plant with antibacterial properties might have a stronger effect to a mixed flower honey but I can't see manuka being any better than say Australian eucalypt or mediteranean Lavender & rosemary honeys.

jamanda
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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 5:02 pm Post subject:

jocorless wrote:

I think its got even better properties than other honey's and I think that has been scientifically proven

Nothing in that article suggests that. Unique Manuka Factor doesn't do it for me. Needs a fair bit of peer assessment I I think.

Nick

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 5:02 pm Post subject:

TheGrange wrote:

Course, to make this valid, you'd have to cut his other leg and use regular honey. And a third one with no honey, and possibly the last one, and use, Bovril.

jamanda
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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 5:03 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

TheGrange wrote:

Course, to make this valid, you'd have to cut his other leg and use regular honey. And a third one with no honey, and possibly the last one, and use, Bovril.

Exactly

TheGrange

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Posted: Tue May 19, 09 5:07 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Course, to make this valid, you'd have to cut his other leg and use regular honey. And a third one with no honey, and possibly the last one, and use, Bovril.

you mean you havenï¿½t heard of the bovril healing qualities for empty tummy ache .. u smear it on toast liberally and devour

well yes, but i would imagine any honey would have done equally as good a job it was the one we were directed too.. it worked so we stuck with it

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