The Value of Honey

Honey has been used medicinally for thousands of years. From the ancient Sumerians to the present, honey has been valued for its flavor, its health properties, and its versatility in cooking. Information about the healing properties of honey can easily be found. Just type "healing properties of honey" in Google and you will probably be drowned in information about honey. Be careful of information overload. There are many great sites about honey so pick your favorite three or four for all your information. To save you some time, try theses links. There is sufficient information there to keep you well informed about the different types of honey, its nutritional spectrum, recipes, medicinal uses and values, all sorts of things and some you may not be aware of.

The National Honey Board J is a great place to start! You can subscribe to their newsletter for all the latest info, tips, and recipes. There is technical information and research data and sources of producers, importers, and packers. http://www.honey.com/.

For a web site that is very comprehensive go to http://www.honeyo.com/honeyhealing.shtml. It has research and information from all over the world. Anything that can be done with honey is here along with medicinal applications which are extension and fascinating. You could save money on some over-the-counter preparations after you learn what you can do with honey.

Googling "honey medicine" brought 7,980,000 hits. You know they can't all be good. But, the second link on the page is a good site by Dr. L. B. Groffe, MD. (http://www.drgrotte.com/honey-medicine.shtml)Here is a lot about medical applications such as wound dressing, dealing with allergies, even the reduction of side-effects of chemotherapy. There are clinical observations and animal studies about the effectiveness of honey in treating animals. The sidebar has links to traditional medical uses of honey in other parts of the world.

One site I found quite amusing but important to know is how the status quo medical community is still reluctant to acknowledge the medicinal value of honey in the face of published evidence supporting the effectiveness of honey in certain applications replacing antibiotics and antiseptics.
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200802/1203022719.html

To add some support to that link from Free-Press, here is some information from MSNBC reporting on honey as an antibiotic and specifically about "Manuka Honey" from New Zealand which the Free-Press link highlights. The specific product MSNBC discusses is called "Medihoney." Read for yourself. It does not make the headlines. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22398921/