Honey and Medicine: Past, Present and Future

[Guest guest]

Honey and Medicine: Past, Present and Future

 

P C Molan, Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Honey

Research Unit University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

 

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[Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of abstracts from the

1st International Conference on the Medicinal Uses of Honey (From Hive

to Therapy) held by Universiti Sains Malaysia in August of 2006. The

abstracts have been published by the Malaysian Journal of Medical

Sciences (Vol.14 No.1, January 2007).]

 

 

 

…It is predicted that in the future it will be widely used

prophylactically to prevent infection of patients with

" superbugs " in hospitals, and will come into use as standard

treatment for: leprosy; for all surgical wounds to prevent infection,

prevent scarring, and speed healing; for burns, to prevent infection and

prevent further damage to tissues caused by inflammation resulting from

the thermal damage; to minimise burning from radiotherapy for cancer; to

minimise effects on the gut of chemotherapy for cancer; and will be

fully accepted by the medical profession as a legitimate modern

medicine.