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Honey helps problem wounds
www.eurekalert.org ^ | 07-27-06

Posted on 08/02/2006 3:55:47 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

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1 posted on 08/02/2006 3:55:48 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Bee poop! Who'd a thunk it?


2 posted on 08/02/2006 3:58:08 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (WARNING: Alcohol may cause you to think you are whispering when you are definitely not.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Some of the best stuff you can put in your body, besides garlic!


3 posted on 08/02/2006 4:01:35 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Moderate Bumper Sticker: Bush Lied, Terrorists Died!)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
Bee poop! Who'd a thunk it?

Isn't it more like bee "chaw?"

4 posted on 08/02/2006 4:03:00 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Muslims - The "flesh eating bacteria" version of humans.)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
As I recall, the ancient Egyptians used honed as a wound dressing.
5 posted on 08/02/2006 4:03:31 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

It really helps to spread honey over all exposed areas of your body before venturing outdoors.
Prevention.


6 posted on 08/02/2006 4:04:01 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: NaughtiusMaximus; leda

bee barf, actually.


7 posted on 08/02/2006 4:06:13 PM PDT by patton (LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
t really helps to spread honey over all exposed areas of your body before venturing outdoors. Prevention.

I tried that but quickly became coated with a layer of bugs....and the ants are still looking for me out there.

8 posted on 08/02/2006 4:09:42 PM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

As I recall, the ancient Egyptians used honed as a wound dressing.


Isn't that where the saying came from,
"You ain't nothing but a honed dog?"


9 posted on 08/02/2006 4:11:41 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Sweet!!!


10 posted on 08/02/2006 4:14:47 PM PDT by laotzu
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Bookmark for later printing. Good find.


11 posted on 08/02/2006 4:16:32 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: capt. norm
It works best in a group of people.
They will thank you.
12 posted on 08/02/2006 4:19:33 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: patton
bee barf, actually.

...and what's wrong with bee barf?? It's good, and when added to brewed iced tea...absolutely wonderful!

13 posted on 08/02/2006 4:21:36 PM PDT by guestfox01 ("The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed." - Jack Palance)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
It is also known today why honey has an antiseptic effect: when producing honey, bees add an enzyme called glucose-oxidase.

That's as may be, but there's a much simpler phenomenon at play, here. The high sugar content of they honey sucks the bacteria dry by osmosis. Plain old granulated sugar will work just as well.

14 posted on 08/02/2006 4:22:31 PM PDT by Physicist
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Two weeks ago I used "Sugar Dyne" on a dog's leg that had developed gangrene after a gunshot wound became contaminated and was unattended for three days before I saw it. I had to amputate the leg and the gangrene had spread but the "sugar Dyne" at the distal portion of the amputation kept the gangrene from spreading. It worked really well.

"sugar Dyne" is a mixture of sugar and betadyne.

15 posted on 08/02/2006 4:29:18 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: guestfox01
bee barf, actually.

...and what's wrong with bee barf?? It's good, and when added to brewed iced tea...absolutely wonderful!


My favorites are honey butter...mix 'bee barf' and butter (the REAL stuff) in equal parts and spread on toast or waffles. Too die for. Nothing wrong with a 'bee barf' and peanut butter sandwich, either.
16 posted on 08/02/2006 4:31:57 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Odd. Aren't you supposed to never give honey to a child because of botulism?

But it protects against other stuff.
Odd.


17 posted on 08/02/2006 4:36:07 PM PDT by djf (A short fence is mathematically the same as NO FENCE...)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I still remember the time my husband tried to convince me that honey would get rid of stretch marks. He had the last laugh on that one.


18 posted on 08/02/2006 4:37:14 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
"Bee poop! Who'd a thunk it?"

Not bee poop--Nectar gently sucked from flowers by the bee is returned to the hive, deposited in the comb, and reduced by evaporation with a breeze created by the delicate beating of their wings until that thick sugary solution called honey remains.

Now, philistine, take your comments and darken some other thread! ;)
19 posted on 08/02/2006 4:37:47 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Citizen Tom Paine
That's what it said in the article, but they used a Y instead of a D. ;)

Great article though.

20 posted on 08/02/2006 4:38:56 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses)
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