In October 2008, my young colleague Antoine Bonfès happily went to climb Mount Everest, but returned without a smile. Because five toes of his right foot were frostbitten and necrotic, he had to be amputated by surgery. Antoine was admitted to the hospital in Paris after returning home. The doctor suggested that the injured foot should be flattened so that there was enough skin to cover the wound. Otherwise, the wound healing would be a very long and extremely painful process. It was a nightmare for the young athlete. Antoine refused to operate again, "by chance I learned that Professor Bernard de Cotte can use honey to perform a different repair operation." He immediately gave Deco, who works at the Limoges Hospital (France) Professor Te called and described his condition to him. A few days later, he received a bottle of thyme honey and an instruction manual from the doctor. The young disabled man is very happy now, he said, "I started the treatment on January 1st, and the wound was completely healed on March 1st! It only took two months, and there was no pain, which is really surprising."
Believe It's not just Antoni that honey can heal. In recent years, the medical community has found that honey can sterilize, promote wound healing and have anti-inflammatory effects. In fact, honey has been used in medicine for a long time. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Chinese, Greeks and Romans had long used honey to treat wounds and abdominal pain. Prophet Muhammad also taught people to use honey to treat diarrhea. In AD 50, the Greek Theoskolid claimed that honey could relieve sore throats, relieve coughs and soften tight foreskins. Today, honey is still used in many traditional medicines. In Ghana, honey is used for infected foot ulcers; in Nigeria, honey is used for earaches; in Mali, honey is used for measles; in India, honey is used for eye diseases...
Only Westerners have forgotten honey, especially after the advent of antibiotics. With antibiotics being used indiscriminately, honey was not taken seriously until microbes became resistant to antibiotics. In the past 20 years, honey has become the object of more and more scientific researches, and studies have proved that honey can indeed destroy microorganisms, even the most toxic microorganisms. In the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, many clinics and hospitals have begun treatment with honey. Professor Bernard de Cotte is the director of the transplant department of the University of Limoges Medical Center in France, and is the only doctor in France who uses honey for treatment. However, as early as 1984 he was already well-known. He introduced, "One day, a girl came to see a doctor, and her wounds after having her appendix removed were slow to heal. I asked the nurses to treat it with honey. The nurses all looked at me and thought their director was crazy. But three days later, the girl The wounds healed. After that, I managed to heal more than 3,000 patients.” Now Professor de Cotte, president of the Francophone Association for the Treatment of Honey, has tested the efficacy of hundreds of honeys from all over the world. Tests have shown that various thyme honeys and honeydew work best. Honeydew is a sugary substance secreted by insects that suck on plant sap, especially the sap of conifers. With thyme honey or honeydew, wounds heal twice as fast as the usual course of treatment. And, no matter whether it treats wounds or burns, ointments that cost a hundred times more cannot compete with honey!
The secret of honey sterilization is that honey can produce hydrogen peroxide! Bees use an enzyme to process nectar, which promotes the production of hydrogen peroxide . Enzymes are quite abundant, and with just a little water, new chemical reactions can be carried out: sugars are broken down into hydrogen peroxide and glycolic acid. We all know the bactericidal power of hydrogen peroxide, but acidic substances can also inhibit the growth of microorganisms. As for the healing properties of honey, it comes from both sugars, which dry out wounds, and organic compounds that promote the release of cytokines and the scarring agent interleukin, and the two interact.
The medicinal properties of bees continue to amaze people. Not long ago, Tobias Olofsson of the Microbiology Laboratory in Helsingborg, Sweden, discovered Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium in the stomachs of honeybees. Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria protect bees from certain diseases when they ingest food and secrete honey. These beneficial bacteria are present in honey, thereby enhancing the bactericidal ability of honey. However, honey must be kept fresh.
Honey can be used for more than just bacteria. Now living in New York, the Dubai-American Dr. Nouri Weili has published more than 160 scientific papers, demonstrating that honey is also effective for many diseases. For example, after he inhaled "honey vapor" in diabetic and hypertensive patients, the blood sugar and blood pressure of the patients dropped. He also used honey to reduce the symptoms of genital herpes and oral herpes in patients, shortening the time of onset, and finally, he also claimed to treat an elderly woman with AIDS with 80 grams of honey a day, and now the patient's blood test and biochemical test results were significantly improved. Other researchers have also confirmed that "honey medicine" has a good effect on treating ulcers, dermatitis, psoriasis, and improving liver and kidney functions. On January 12 this year, a study published by Professor Fukuda Miki from Kyoto University in Japan showed that honey collected in the Nigerian jungle was used to test mice, and the results found that honey can improve the immune function and anti-tumor ability of mice. In addition, several other studies published in scientific journals have also confirmed that honey has a good effect on the treatment of certain cancers.
.jpeg)
