Active Manuka Honey is used
as a natural product both internally and topically on the skin. Apitherapy, the
name given to treatment with natural honey, has been used by many different
cultures throughout history. Such uses are now being rediscovered by a modern
world in light of new research into the properties and uses of Active Manuka
Honey.
Manuka Honey has enjoyed growing
acceptance by the academic and medical world of late, and reporting of the
Manuka honey's unique properties has proliferated in the press and media.
Manuka Honey is produced by bees that gather pollen from the flowers of the Manuka tree, which is
indigenous to New Zealand. The honey making process is enriched by the pollution
free environment of New Zealand. This special type of honey is been found to have some very powerful healing properties.
It is only thanks to clinical research, predominantly in the last
decade, that we are now able to explain many of the therapeutic effects of Manuka Honey when used for medical purposes.
Honey has been known for its healing properties for thousands of years. The
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians used it and so have many other cultures through the ages. Even up
to the second world war, honey was being used for its antibacterial properties
in treating wounds. With the advent of penicillin and other antibiotic drugs in
the twentieth century, doctors and other medical professionals were under the misconception that medicine was more effective than honey.
However, recent case studies have indicated that honey has been more effective
in treating certain ailments, even more so than antibiotics. In all honeys, there
is hydrogen peroxide produced from an enzyme that bees add to the nectar. It has
been discovered that Manuka Honey seems to have the most healing agents due to plant-derived components such as UMF and Methylglyoxal.
15 Reasons to use Manuka Honey for Medical
Purposes
1. Manuka Honey has no known side effects. 2. Manuka
Honey has natural antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiviral, antioxidant,
antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and antifungal properties. 3. Manuka Honey
creates a moist healing environment that allows new skin cells to grow across a
healing wound flush with the surface of the wound, preventing deformity of the
skin and scaring. 4. Manuka Honey rapidly clears infection by destroying
bacteria. 5. Manuka Honey repairs damaged skin and regenerates new skin
growth. 6. Manuka Honey hastens the healing process. 7. Manuka Honey
eliminates malodor by destroying the bacteria that cause it. 8. Manuka Honey
can heal Staph infections and destroy antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria
such as MRSA and VRE. 9. The viscosity of Manuka Honey provides a protective
barrier to prevent wounds from becoming infected. 10. Manuka Honey causes
scabs and dead skin cells to lift off the surface of the wound, leaving a clean
healthy wound bed in which re-growth of tissue can occur. 11. Manuka Honey
stimulates the growth of tissue involved in the healing process. 12. Manuka
Honey stimulates the formation of new blood capillaries and the growth of
fibroblasts that replace the connective tissue of the deeper layer of the skin
and produce the collagen fibers that give strength to the repair. 13. Manuka
Honey has an anti-inflammatory action that relieves pain. 14. Manuka Honey
has antifungal properties that cure ringworm and other fungal conditions.
15. Manuka Honey is all-natural and organic.
Unique Characteristics of Manuka Honey
Only Manuka Honey provides non-hydrogen peroxide antibacterial components;
Manuka Honey's antibacterial factor is unaffected by enzymes in the body that
destroy hydrogen peroxide components;
Manuka Honey is highly effective against antibiotic-resistant strains of
bacteria;
Manuka Honey maintains its potency even when diluted over 50 times as will
happen when used on the body;
Manuka Honey is unaffected by heat, light or aging;
Manuka Honey does not require moisture or oxygen to be effective;
Manuka Honey diffuses deep into skin tissue, making it possible to get to
effected areas.
Manuka Honey has an antibacterial activity due primarily to hydrogen peroxide
formed in a "slow-release" manner by the enzyme glucose oxidase present. Manuka
Honey can be diluted more than 100-fold and still halt the growth of bacteria.
It contains an additional antibacterial component found only in honey produced
from Leptospermum plants which has been called the "Unique Manuka Factor" (UMF).
There is evidence that the two antibacterial components have a synergistic
action. The establishment by research that there are bioactive components in
Manuka Honey has led to a general acceptance that it is an extremely valuable
therapeutic agent.
