I don’t buy it. If honey based cures were really so effective then the death rate in medieval times for poor fools would have been much lower than it was.
The elitist scum that currently rule America want us to be happy with attempting to treat disease with food ingredients like ignorant peasants and dying like flies.
Winnie the Pooh has never been sick once.
...attempting to treat disease with food ingredients like ignorant peasants and dying like flies.
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There is an interesting scientific research article on line that replicated a Medieval potion for infections and found it was better than current antibiotics for staph.
It contained garlic, onion, ox gall and wine. Maybe honey, too, I don’t honestly recall.
You can likely find it without too much effort.
Personally, I am happy we have antibiotics and easily obtainable antiseptics. However, many problems _can_ be effectively treated with simple remedies that often, but not always, utilize foodstuffs or contain elements of them. We use them in our home all the time. We have had great results, often for issues for which modern medicine has nothing much to offer. We have survived to our 70s with minimal recourse to modern medicinals. We have often discussed this with clinicians who can usually explain why any particular such treatment works.
Enzymes, preservatives, elements found in the portions of vegetables we normally discard, weeds, plant matter that isn’t normally eaten, minerals,commonly available by-products (like charcoal)...all of these were used by our ancestors to good effect and is likely why the human race thrived to this very day.
It’s an interesting study and could stand us all in good stead in the event civilization does collapse, for whatever reason.
The ruling class and their associates get better treatment.. while the working class goes into medical bankruptcy.
It was the lead cups they were drinking out of that killed them.