Probably not too OT since honey is medicinal.
But you are right on all counts. Sometimes the natural product has to be treated in such a way as to get the toxins out. Seems like salacin is one of them, comes from the willow tree and works like aspirin. I might have spelled that wrong, might be salicin. My computer tells me that they are both misspelled but that's the way they sound.
So yes, to all you say.
Sorry, Mindy. Even OT it's medicinal.
There is a type of honey that is being produced in New Zealand, from a specific plant found there. That honey is being used in their hospitals as a bandage after surgery. Fast healing. Not sure how it works, but I know it does.