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Important information about Manuka Honey
15 Reasons to use Manuka Honey for medical purposes.
Active Manuka Honey is used as a natural, therapeutic agent, both internally and topically on the skin. Apitherapy, the name given to treatment with honey and other bee products, 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 Manuka Honey.
Manuka Honey has enjoyed growing acceptance by the academic and medical world as of late, and reports of Manuka honey's unique healing properties have 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 medical grade honey has been found to have extremely 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.
Why Honey?
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 certain types of honey (such as Active Manuka Honey) have been more effective in treating certain ailments, even more so than antibiotics. In all kinds of honey, hydrogen peroxide is produced from an enzyme that bees add to the nectar. It has been discovered that Manuka Honey seems to have the most healing properties due to plant-derived components such as UMF and Methylglyoxal.
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Active Manuka Honey has been considered a remedy for many health conditions since ancient times. Manuka Honey is unique to New Zealand and contains non-peroxide antibacterial agents which can inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause slow healing wounds.
Medical Research
Dr Peter Molan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Waikato, has proven the natural antibacterial properties of Active Manuka honey during a decade of research at the university's Honey Research Unit.
In laboratory tests, UMF Active Manuka Honey inhibited the growth of bacteria which causes many skin infections including antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria such as MRSA and VRE. Recent clinical trials at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, showed skin infections and wounds infected by "Golden staph" and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria responded well to Active Manuka Honey dressings.
The leading authority on medical research on UMF rated Manuka Honey is the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. The director of the unit is Dr. Peter Molan, who has devoted the majority of his career to understanding the properties of Manuka Honey and its varied applications.
The Honey Research Unit has a very informative website which is essential reading for anyone interested in the applications of this incredibly diverse natural resource. http://bio.waikato.ac.nz/honey/
15 REASONS TO USE MANUKA HONEY FOR
MEDICAL PURPOSES [Available at our online store here]
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.
Antibacterial Properties of Manuka Honey
Manuka Honey has an antibacterial activity due primarily to hydrogen peroxide formed in a "slow-release" manner by the enzyme glucose oxidase. 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 or UMF. There is evidence that the two antibacterial components have a synergistic action.
Please note that due to FDA regulations, we are restricted as to what we can claim about honey's medical uses. Because Manuka Honey is a purely natural product, rather than an FDA recognized drug, medical claims are limited. However, we are permitted to include links in our website to external third-party sources of information on the benefits and research of Manuka Honey's medical use. [Available at our online store here]
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