I can attest to a product called MediHoney. It's got incredible healing potential. Both NICUs my preemie girls ended up in used it on skin tears and wounds from IV sites. It works miracles. Honey does have some very strong healing capabilities when you use the correct products. Everyone is gonna have their own opinions on natural products and remedies. I use a lot of them in my house. I've had people literally call me "crazy." But we see results and that's what matters to me.
Your post is music to my ears. Time and again, I post regarding using natural methods and the gifts from Mother Nature, like Manuka honey, Terramin clay, activated charcoal and it's mostly met with either silence or retorts or rebuttals that some chemical is the only way to go.
Manuka honey, viral, bacterial, inflammatory, GI healing and stabilization, etc., ... I rarely find any posts on this site that promote using natural approaches. Mother Nature has several extremely beneficial and healing gifts, Manuka Honey, hardwood activated charcoal, Terramin Clay, cold-pressed coconut oil, and several supplements that are effective as antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, are all mainstays in my animal care and healing regiments. Decades of using these and an encyclopedia volume of success stories, I then wonder why so little attention or practice is given to a more natural approach. I stepped into animal care and rehabilitation only knowing the Western medicine and Big Pharm route. Then I learned otherwise through much research and application. Sometimes, one has to reach for Western medicine immediate response in acute cases. However, the natural route is so much better for the chicken (any animal...) in the long run.
Additionally, I rarely see emphasis on supportive care, such as ensuring the chicken is eating, drinking, staying warm and clean, and how to ensure these, such as using electrolytes/vitamins like Grogel. If folks are going to pump their peeps full of chemicals, what about using probiotics? For sure, the body suffers from the imbalance and killing off of all that is good from using chemical antibiotics. And what about addressing nauseau and stomach upset? The chicken is already not feeling well, then pumping them full of chemicals, there is then nauseau/stomach/GI upset to address as secondary considerations.