Use of medical honey: I visited a rather sick guy on Saturday,...

Use of medical honey: I visited a rather sick guy on Saturday, has had multiply surgeries for a problem heart value. He is now being treated at home daily by a community nurse from a large Sydney hospital by instilling medical honey into a surgical wound in his chest region that had been healing poorly. The surgical wound in healing.

There have been a number of published reports in medical related journals regarding the antibacterial and wound healing properties of Manuka honey. The big pharmaceutical companies are not interested in honey as a treatment as they as ' not in the honey business' and it competes with their own pharmaceutical products.

As bacterial resistance in man and animals increases to traditional antibiotics the use of medical honey will increase. It use for animals is problematic as daily applications is inconvenient.