Honey has been used as a wound dressing for thousands of years, but only in more recent
times has a scientific explanation become available for its effectiveness. It is now realized …

There has been a renaissance in recent times in the use of honey, an ancient and traditional
wound dressing, for the treatment of wounds, burns, and skin ulcers. In the past decade …

Aims: To determine the sensitivity to honey of Gram‐positive cocci of clinical significance in
wounds and demonstrate that inhibition is not exclusively due to osmotic effects. Methods …

The antibacterial action of honey in infected wounds does not depend wholly on its high
osmolality. We tested the sensitivity of 58 strains of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus …

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Both honey and sugar are used with good effect as dressings for wounds and ulcers. The
good control of infection is attributed to the high osmolarity, but honey can have additional …

The effectiveness of honey as a therapeutic agent has been unequivocally demonstrated in
the literature reviewed in Part 1 of this article published in 1999, but the biochemical …

Why were a handful of Spaniards able to overthrow the Aztec Empire? The dramatic
destruction of the Aztecs has prompted historians, anthropologists, demographers, and …

Dressing wounds with honey was standard practice in past times but went out of fashion
when antibiotics came into use. There has been a renaissance in its usage now that …

Chronic wounds are a major global health problem. Their management is difficult and costly,
and the development of antibiotic resistance by both planktonic and biofilm-associated …