BEEKEEPING: Natural healers sweet on health benefits of honey

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BEEKEEPING: Natural healers sweet on health benefits of honey

Aug 27, 2008
By Marge Tubalkain-Trell

WAX: The clever little insects can make all sorts of good stuff.

TALLINN - “Honey includes more than 500 useful ingredients — it’s impossible to write it all in 600 words” says beekeeper Irene Mahlak. Honey can do a lot more than cure a sore throat. In a three-year clinical trial, doctors at Calabar, Nigeria, treated wounds with honey instead of medicines. The results were amazing: in 59 patients treated for wounds and external ulcers, honey was effective in all but one case. It is a very effective way to sterilize heavily infected wounds without the side ...

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