natures antibiotic

[Sharons7]

Not sure where the best place to post this is but here looks ok. Honey is naturally anti-bacterial and bacterial stat. This means it creates a barrier as well as inhibiting any growth in present bacteria. Archaeologists discovered that the ancient egyptians used honey like we now use Neosporin. Just some FYI that some may find helpful. I have used it on a dog we had with a bad deep cut. She healed up very well and we did combine the honey with keeping it washed out and stitches.

Another benefit of honey is it's with allergies. Local honey is best to get. Local to wherever you are. It makes sense. Local honey made from the bees pollinating your local flora which is often the causes of your allergies. Consuming the honey from your area helps with pollen /plant allergies. It is not a one time dose or use cure either. Honey is delicious!!!
blessed bee

 

[Mahonri]

Makes sense... when my boy was treating our white rock for bumble foot, he used sugar and iodine... I said, you know this would probably work just as well with honey and iodine...we tried it and it did.

 

[hearthnsoul]

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Absolutely! I make a salve with buckwheat honey,..so dark and full of goodies and olive oil, bee pollen, propolis and bees wax and I slab the stuff on everything and highly recommend it to people who are diabetic to treat their cuts that are so difficult to heal.
I just ordered some manuka honey that one is the queen bee of honeys.

 

[catwalk]

Really! You just smear honey on cuts? This is why God is so wonderful; He thinks of everything! How would I keep myself, I mean my animals, from licking it off?

 

[gardenak]

What about feeding it to the chicks? Any benefits there?

 

[twzlrwho]

No you shouldn't feed honey to cchicks or human babies because of the bacterial qualities.

 

[chicknmania]

We have a hen who has a chronic respiratory thing that we think is a result of mold or dust, bacteria maybe in our barn, where she roosts every night. She developed a nasty respiratory infection which we resolved with antibiotics, and the help of the Chicken Doctor, but she is developing sympoms again which seem to lessen when she is outside,. She is healthy in all other respects, and not contagious. Would honey work for her if we fed it to her in some form? And what would that be, anyone know? (keeping her out of the barn is not really possible, that's where all the flock roost and she would be very unhappy if we kept her elsewhere)

 

[GreenEggsHam]

My fear would be attracting ants and other bugs toward the wound.

 

[Sharons7]

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You know I have heard this to, but doesn't it contradict the antibacterial and bacterial stat qualities of honey? I need to look this up.

 

[wohneli]

I use honey for almost everything!!! I love it.