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> On 2/2/2019 4:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 12:14:09 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> I take some solace in the knowledge that any bee that ever stung me paid
> >> the ultimate price for the privilege. Maybe the reason he was never
> >> diagnosed with arthritis was because he had had all those preventative
> >> stings. I have heard that stinging nettles is also good for arthritis,
> >> but I will need more proof before I try it.
> > He may have been diagnosed with arthritis, but I can't say because I don't know. When I knew him, there seemed to be no signs of that.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7JqkJ2nc0
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> * One of the reasons we keep so much honey here is because it's good
> for our allergies . My wife adds a tablespoon to her daily morning tea ,
> I eat more in the spring than any time , that's when my allergies kick
> up . That only works though if the honey was harvested in your own area
> ... local pollen and all that . Honey also has other medicinal benefits
> , I've read about it being used as a kind of antibiotic ointment .

Manuka honey is used under medicinal prescription (by the NHS) in the
treatment of hard-to-heal wounds and abcesses. Don't use smkt manuka
honey for this; get the medicinally validated and purified prescription
treatments.

manuka homey is from a specific tree "Leptospermum, "tea tree", whose
leaves also have medicinal uses. I grow tea trees in my garden.

Last summer our vet prescribed medical-quality Manuka honey as one of
the applications for healing our greyhound's big open wounds. During a
dog attack he lost a palm-sized area of skin from his side (and a chunk
of underlying muscle) were bitten off him.

Not for the squeamish; in the vet car park before treatment.

https://ibb.co/7CMPxNv

Some of the surrounding skin was unsavable so surgical closure proved
impossible. The wound was left open and treated by daily cleaning and
dressing for the five months it took to heal and grow new skin. I used
two types of (prescribed) topical dressing, one of them manuka honey.

Manuka honey was highly effective from the POV of preventing infection
and tissue healing, but less so from the practical nursing angle as Dog
loved honey so much he could only think about licking it off. I used the
other stuff by day and the honey one at night.

He made a full recovery and as soon as the hair finishes growing in on
the last tiny bald patch of new skin he'll be as good as new.

Janet UK