Doctors Turning Sweet on Healing With Honey
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March 8, 2000
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By Charles Downey
Molan, a biochemist at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and other researchers have found special bacteria-killing properties in honey made from the nectar of the tea tree (Leptospermum). In laboratory experiments, reported in the November 1992 Journal of Applied Bacteriology, Molan and his colleagues found that it was particularly effective in slaying staphylococcus aureus.
This so-called “Golden Staph” — which infested the English woman’s 20-year-old wound — sometimes survives the most potent antibiotics, killing its victims. “Manuka honey has worked in very desperate cases where nothing else has worked,” says Molan.
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