Honey Miracles Cure

People have known for thousands of years that raw honey has amazing healing properties, the ability to heal skin wounds and kill bacteria. But, science has been unable to understand what the active ingredient in raw honey is. Now, an Australian PhD student, Shona Blair believes she’s discovered the mechanism of how honey attacks bacteria so effectively.

She’s studied a particularly potent form of honey made by bees using leptospermum, or jelly bush flowers from Northern NSW and a related plant known as Manuka in New Zealand. Shona has found that even the notorious Golden Staph is helpless against the raw power of this honey. Most incredibly, bacteria don’t seem to become resistant to leptospermum honey. She set to work trying to find out why by doing what no-one else had. She looked at the effects on the bacteria’s own genes once in contact with honey.

What she found was incredible. Not only does the honey attack the bacteria, it attacks it on a multi faceted level. More than 100 genes are affected by the honey, 70 genes increase their activity as if they are trying to fight an acid attack. But 20 genes actually decrease their activity, disabling the reproductive capacity of the bacteria. It’s the first time anybody has had any idea on how honey kills bacteria. So is it time for honey to come out of the alternative medicine cabinet to be used as first aid, not a last resort.
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Narration: Honey; it’s been cherished for it’s sweetness for thousands of years, but could it also have the power to heal? Inside these hives is a special kind of honey, unlike any other; it’s future is not in the kitchen, it’s in medicine.

David Roots, Beekeeper: That’s it there, as you can see it’s quite a dark flavour… a very strong flavour. It’s a natural antibiotic and it’s wound healing powers are phenomenal.

Narration: This honey comes from bees using a plant called leptospermum, from isolated parts of New South Wales and New Zealand. It’s antibacterial activity is phenomenal, but even after 20 years of research, nobody knows what makes this honey so potent. Until scientists can find out honey will remain an alternative medicine, generally dismissed by the medical mainstream.

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