HONEY — ITS SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC EFFECT (TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA)

Posted: April 9th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Herbal | No Comments »

A doctor wrote in a medical journal about having successfully used honey in the treatment of diphtheria. A 25 per cent addition of honey to another remedy was found to act as an antiseptic and prevented the diphtheria bacilli from propagating.

This experiment is without doubt proof of the fact that honey deserves attention as a folk medicine of long-standing. It is certainly no coincidence that years ago honey was prescribed as a remedy for exactly this disease. In those days, unlike today, there were no effective treatments for diphtheria, and honey, together with other remedies, no doubt was beneficial to the patients and may have helped to save many lives.

As regards natural remedies in general, I am sure that scientific research would find many an old piece of folk wisdom to be true. The Bible’s recommendation, ‘My son, eat honey, for it is good’, is clearly well founded. Honey is indeed good for us because it has healing properties.

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