can honey heal wounds?

Question

I know that honey can exterminate bacterias but can also heal wounds? can prevent scars?

Answer 1

I not really know. You can search for "Honey in Healing" and get some research. Here Mother Earth News;
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/1999-02-01/Healing-with-Honey.aspx
But, I will say it draw flies and they infect the wound. LOL!

Answer 2

The fact that honey can help wounds to heal is something that was known to the Ancient Egyptians several thousand years ago.
And in the last two world wars poultices with honey were used to assist the healing process in soldiers' wounds. However, the rise of the new antibiotics replaced this household remedy. 'In hospitals today we are faced with germs which are resistant to almost all the current anti-biotics,' Dr. Arne Simon explains. 'As a result, the medical use of honey is becoming attractive again for the treatment of wounds.'


Results of a three year clinical trial at the University Teaching Hospital in Calabar, Nigeria, showed that unprocessed honey can heal wounds when more modern dressings and antibiotic treatments fail. In 59 patients treated for wounds and external ulcers, honey was effective in all but one case. Topical applications kept sterile wounds sterile until they had time to heal, while infected wounds became sterile within a week. Honey was also shown to remove dead tissue from persistent wounds, helping some patients avoid skin grafts or amputations.

"Honey provides a moist healing environment yet prevents bacterial growth even when wounds are heavily infected," notes Dr. Peter Molan of the Honey Research Unit at the

University of Waikato, New Zealand. "It is a very effective means of quickly rendering heavily infected wounds sterile, without the side effects of antibiotics, and it is even effective against antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria."

Answer 3

I have been a nurse for over twenty years. Honey was one of those natural things that was used occasionally many years ago on people, especially to treat bedsores. Supposedly it prevents growth of bacteria and aided in healing. But like many natural treatments, honey as a healing item has stopped being used. Why? Well, because there are many things that work better with less side effects. Consider that in nature few things are really concentrated. Many medications come from plant material, but they must be taken, broken down and the useful portions extracted and used in a much stronger form than found in the origional plant. I believe this is the same for honey. It probably does have some mild benefits, but we now know there are many ointments produced that are much more effective in aiding healing, keeping the wound bed moist, and preventing infection. Honey has some obvious disadvantages, too. It becomes liquid and runny when warm, so it is almost impossible to keep in a wound or on a cut. Its sweetness attracts flies and other bugs. Because it is not oil based it washes off easily with sweat, rain and any type of moisture. I suspect that honey will not likely harm your horse's coronet band, but I also know you can find many other products that will be much more useful. At least its a step up from the older vet treatments of 100 plus years ago. Do you realize that it was common for turpentine and animal manure to be mixed together to apply on wounds? That animals and people had their blood "let" to treat everything from breathing problems to founder to mental health issues? That the sayings from Shakespear that say "Eye of bat and hair of newt" aren't jokes, but actual ingredients used for treatments? Talk to your vet before doing anything different, your horse will thank you!

Answer 4

Yes it can....of course not magically in 5 seconds, but yes. If you want to deal with the wound and stop a scar, crack and egg and peel som of the skin off the shell. Place the skin on the wound and you will have less chance of having a bad scar.

Answer 5

I know that the egyptians used it to cure battle wounds