[Sca-cooks] Honey

[Anne duBosc]

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I did a quick Yahoo search on the antibacterial properties of honey and came up with something over 4670 sites.  Whew!
Apparently, honey not only fights bacteria through physical means (osmosis) but through chemical means as well.  The flavinoids from honeys from differing pollen sources fight different bacteria.  Apparently Mankuto honey from New Zealand and "honeydew" honey from Western Europe are two with the widest range of efficacy.
See http://www.honeycouncil.ca/healing.html for some information on this process in layman's terms.
Mordonna
 SableSwanHerald at aol.com wrote:--
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Hi all -

Doc posted something about honey attracting bacteria, putting it on wounds,
etc. -
actually, honey has natural antibacterial properties and some funky naturally
occurring clusters of stuff that promote healing. It was heavily mentioned
for use on wounds in ancient Egyptian medicine over a quite lengthy time
period; while not modern medicine and having numerous erroneous concepts, the
ancient Egyptians did manage to treat a number of conditions rather
successfully for the era, and I doubt this particular practice would have
survived as long as it did without some rate of success that wasn't
accidental.

I'm sorry, I used to have a link for a site about this, with the exact
numbers of antibiotic compounds, on my other computer - which quit working.
I know it's kind of sucky to post such a vague cite, but it was sent to me by
friends who were researching natural healing compounds and we discussed it at
length at an event. We haven't switched over to it in a kitchen setting for
handwashing :-), but there was some method to the madness.

Berengaria
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Lady Anne du Bosc
Known as Mordonna The Cook
Atenveldt, Atenveldt
mundanely Pat Griffin
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