The benefits of honey are almost too numerous to mention. There is a picture somewhere of a cave painting in Spain that is carbon tested to be about 10,000 years old. It shows two women gathering honey. I remember there is also a sort of wobbly ladder in the painting. I should have looked for that picture before I started writing this, but didn't. So honey has been used long before history was recorded in anything but symbols on a cave wall. I think that's an impressive report card for honey.
And another thing, in New Zealand hospitals are using a honey (from a specific plant) instead of stitches for surgery. It's working very well.
Part of the reason it's so good for healing is that the pH of honey is commonly between 3.2 and 4.5. This fairly high acidic pH level prevents the growth of many bacteria. It's about the only natural commodity we have that prevents or fights bacterial growth.
It's an excellent food, is known to help prevent ulcers and I read something recently about it being effective in treatment of diabetics, but didn't read enough to be able to say much about that aspect. At any rate, along with it being a healthy food source, it also seems to have wonderful and amazing healing powers. A lot of it depends on the flower it comes from, but even so, it still has those antiseptic qualities.
Your articles are always very informative, Magaret, and the best part is they make us think.
Thank you.
