Really? I'll have to go rent it and find out myself.
Posted on 12/26/2007 1:04:55 PM PST by decimon
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature's original antibiotic — honey — is making a comeback.
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He said the Medihoney dressing can also prevent the dangerous drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA from infecting open wounds.
"It's been used on wounds where nothing else will work," said biochemist Peter Molan, a professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand who has researched honey and other natural antibiotics for 25 years.
He's found manuka honey can kill the toughest bacteria even when diluted 10 times and recommends it especially for people with weak immune systems.
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Ah, you found tea tree oil. That stuff is a wonder. I love these cheap, natural remedies when they really work. I first learned this as a kid when I found that squeezing a broken aloe vera leaf onto a burn works a lot better than anything from the store. We always have a plant in the house.
Some more: Forget sleeping pills, drink valerian root tea (not too much, as that will have the opposite effect). Stressed/depressed, take St. John's wort. Upset stomach, go for chamomile, peppermint and/or ginger root in tea. There are hundreds more.
You have to look hard, but you can find a good doctor who will tell you to take these things when they'll be effective, but who's not a new-age quack and will give you a Big Pharma prescription when necessary.
A lot has been done for some. St. John's wort extract or tea passed clinical studies for depression and anxiety treatment, and is commonly prescribed in Europe.
I don't think clinical evidence for valerian root as a sedative and pain reliever has been conclusive. But the anecdotal evidence is pretty overwhelming, enough that it is also commonly prescribed by doctors. You'll often find it in effective "sleepy time" teas.
I get to sleep sooner with a little melatonin.
Two Guinness’ before bedtime.
If you have a clear run to the head. ;-)
Maybe we should give these natural remedies a chance to work. God made nature. God provides. Nature provides. It’s elementary.
See the second result that has a green bar across the top. That means the whole article is a FReebie at the source, IIRC. If you see orange and green, it's a FReebie at PubMedCentral, IIRC.
Tooth paste is nothing but flavored detergent.
My wife and I both tried melatonin. Seemed to cause a slight confusion, and forgetting the names of common things. Cleared up when we quit melatonin....
Good find, pandy. Just the stuff for you.
My two Irish Setters wake me up when it is time! A couple of low wisperd “woofs woofs” and a nudge of a cold nose on my arm at 2am remind me and the amazing thing is, they get to go out too! LOL
My great grandpa was a T-totaller. He didn’t get sick with a cold/flu often, but, when he did, he used a Hot Toddy recipe like most of the “old folks” did in those days.
We tease my son-in-law that the reason he asked our daughter to marry him was because my hot toddy recipe cured his flu symptoms when they were dating. lol.
See the second result that has a green bar across the top. That means the whole article is a FReebie at the source, IIRC. If you see orange and green, it's a FReebie at PubMedCentral, IIRC.
Can there be a worse word than "leptospermum?"
I saw but one result with a green bar.
It usually comes in tablets of 3 Mgs and that is usually too much. I break the tablets into smaller amounts.
Uhm, it’s not really a tree hugger and paranoid late-night radio topic. The population of honey bees has diminished by a significant amount.
>> Tooth paste is nothing but flavored detergent.
Yes! It often gives me a bellyache and only traces get down that far. Baking soda doesn’t taste like chocolate, but it does the job.
Just saying though, if honey can deal with MRSA and other big league biota, it ought to be good for oral hygiene. If not, then maybe somebody’s fibbing to us, maybe to sell manuka honey at exotic prices.
Medihoney dressing
Yup. Local honey is supposed to be good to eat for resistance to the local allergens. We get our honey and honeycomb from a beekeeper just up the road from us. In fact, I think we see some of his bees in our garden, collecting pollen from our blooms just so he can sell it back to us once they process it.
The word was in the article you posted. Are you a feminazi?
I saw but one result with a green bar.
How many free articles do you think you get from the professional literature? The rest with just a few lines are abstracts, i.e. summaries sometimes called extracts. Blank yellow rectangles are just titles, authors, source, volume, date, etc. If I want to look up something about medicine, this is where I go. If this is too technical for you, go here. Save it.
Beware of what you find out on the "net."
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