Applications

How-to-use

For Gen­eral Well Being and Energy:

Manuka Honey can be taken inter­nally for gen­eral well being by tak­ing three tea­spoons (21g) per day.
It has no addi­tives and is safe to have as much as you like when­ever you like 

For Sore Throats and Colds:

• When the first feel­ing of a cold is felt take a tea­spoon of Manuka Honey from every few hours.

For Diges­tive Care, Duo­de­nal and Stom­ach Ulcer Relief:

• Take a tea­spoon to a table­spoon of Manuka Honey three to four times a day, ide­ally one hour before meals and again at bedtime.
• Try have noth­ing to drink imme­di­ately after hav­ing the honey so as not to dilute the honey .
• Hav­ing the honey on bread, toast or a cracker holds the honey in the stom­ach for as long as possible.
• It is pure honey so it does not inter­fere with reg­u­lar medications.
• Adjust your amount and fre­quency to suit your own needs. Most peo­ple start off with a gen­er­ous amount of honey ini­tially and then reduce it as they feel it warranted. 

For Wound Care such as Burns, Cuts, Grazes, Ulcers and Infections:

• Spread the honey gen­er­ously and evenly on to a clean dress­ing pad ensur­ing there is enough honey for a gen­er­ous cov­er­age of wound sur­face and any sur­round­ing inflammation. 
• Apply to the full sur­face of a clean wound. Cover well.
• Use about 1 table­spoon of honey to a 5cm wound.
• The dress­ing should extend beyond the edges of the wound and any sur­round­ing inflamed area.
• It is best to apply the honey to the dress­ing to avoid dam­ag­ing the wound.
• For skin ulcers and large wounds a dress­ing with a water­proof back­ing is preferable.
• Change the dress­ing at least once a day, if pos­si­ble. Change more fre­quently (up to three times a day) if the wound is weep­ing a lot. The exu­da­tion of fluid (weep­ing) reduces as the wound heals, so less fre­quent dress­ing changes may be needed later when there could be a few days between changes.
• If the dress­ing sticks to the wound this usu­ally indi­cates that more fre­quent changes of dress­ing are needed or that not enough honey is being used. Be sure to use plenty of honey. 
• Water­proof dress­ings are bet­ter as they keep more of the honey in con­tact with the wound. Absorbent dress­ings soak the honey away from the wound. Adhe­sive tape or ban­dages can be used to hold the dress­ings in place.
• Pres­sure ban­dag­ing is used over the honey dress­ing for vari­cose ulcers.
• Abscesses, cav­i­ties and depres­sions in the wound bed are filled with honey before apply­ing the honey dressed pad, so that there is honey con­tact with the wound bed.
• Some­times tran­sient sting­ing may be expe­ri­enced after honey is applied. This is due to the acid­ity of the honey. The acid­ity is part of the way in which honey stim­u­lates heal­ing. Usu­ally the sting­ing is tran­sient and soon sub­sides. Use of honey should be dis­con­tin­ued if the sting­ing is severe. Some peo­ple have stopped using the honey for a short while and then find no prob­lems when they recom­mence using the honey.
• Be sure to use a clean and ster­ile spat­ula for spread­ing the honey and clean, ster­ile dressings.
• Heal­ing results may be slowed by under­ly­ing con­di­tions such as poor blood cir­cu­la­tion or diabetes.