Science of Manuka

Why Manuka Honey?

Manuka Honey is gain­ing world­wide recog­ni­tion for its amaz­ing heal­ing abil­ity and can be taken orally as well as top­i­cally on the skin, as long as it comes in con­tact with the affected area, it will pro­duce instant results.

What makes manuka honey so unique and effec­tive is the level of antibac­te­r­ial effi­ciency to fight bac­te­ria com­pared to a stan­dard anti­sep­tic and is being con­sid­ered an out per­former to antibi­otics and tra­di­tional forms of medicine. 

Manuka Honey even tack­les antibi­otic resis­tant strains of bac­te­ria which are a grow­ing prob­lem the world over. One of the most wound – infect­ing species of bac­te­ria, staphy­lo­coc­cus, is most sen­si­tive to Manuka Honey.

There are doc­tors and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als that are of the belief that the major­ity of health issues are caused by types of infec­tious micro organ­isms such as bac­te­ria, virus, fun­gus or par­a­sites. What makes Manuka so unique is that it com­bats all of these lit­tle microbes.

Not only as an effi­cient and effec­tive every­day immune booster, Manuka honey is used as a lead­ing treat­ment for wounds such as leg ulcers and pres­sure sores. Manuka Honey doesn’t stop there as it acts as an anti-inflammatory as well and there­fore does more than just con­trol­ling the bac­te­ria in the wound.

Manuka Honey helps heal­ing after surgery and is becom­ing a pop­u­lar treat­ment for can­cer suf­fer­ers as an appli­ca­tion to wounds and ulcers result­ing from radi­a­tion or fun­gat­ing wounds where the can­cer has bro­ken through the skin.

Being a nat­ural ingre­di­ent – it has found to have no neg­a­tive side affects. Even the most resilient bac­te­ria are no match for manuka honey’s unpar­al­leled antimi­cro­bial prop­er­ties, such as MRSA and VRE.The antimi­cro­bial activ­ity of Manuka Honey has been observed in many stud­ies around the world. 

It has been dis­cov­ered that Manuka Honey is effec­tive in destroy­ing the fol­low­ing bac­te­r­ial and fun­gal microorganisms:

• Escherichie (E. coli) 
• Staphy­lo­coc­cus aureus (Staph infections)
• Cit­robac­ter freundii
• Pro­teus mirabilis
• Pseud­monas aeruginosa
• Sal­mo­nella typhimurium
• Strep­to­coc­cus faecalis 
• Strep­toc­cus pyogene
• Heli­cobac­ter Pylori (H. Pylori, stom­ach ulcers)
• Methicillin-resistant Staphy­lo­coc­cus aureus (MRSA)

Research also indi­cates that Manuka Honey inhibits enzymes called cys­teine pro­teases, which have been impli­cated in muscle-wasting dis­eases such as mus­cu­lar dys­tro­phy, viral repli­ca­tion, tumour inva­sion and metastasis

Manuka Honey is also one of the best treat­ments on the mar­ket avail­able for wounds and burns. This is because Manuka Honey pro­vides a moist, ster­ile envi­ron­ment for the regen­er­a­tion of the tis­sue. Manuka destroys the bac­te­ria that cause the infec­tion in the wound. It also pro­vides a soft bar­rier between the wounds and ban­dages, pre­vent­ing new tis­sue from being torn away when the dress­ing is changed.

Manuka Honey is extremely suc­cess­ful in treat­ing the per­sis­tent, hard-to-heal wounds that do not respond to con­ven­tional and tra­di­tional forms of treat­ments and antibi­otics such as bed sores, ulcers, radi­a­tion sores, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns.

Some of the most com­pre­hen­sive research of the med­ical usage of Manuka Honey has been done by the Waikato Uni­ver­sity in New Zealand headed by Doc­tor Peter Molan.

Their find­ings and research can be found at the fol­low­ing link:
http://bio.waikato.ac.nz