Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Healing Power of Honey

"The Healing Power of Honey" is about how a certain type of honey that can heal ulcers that refuse to heal. For diabetics a cut on the foot can lead to an ulcer that will fester for months. One diabetic, who instead of receiving a skin graft on her foot where the ulcer was, treated her ulcer with a honey-infused bandage and after a month the foot ulcer was gone. More and more scientists are willing to give honey a try because a lot of bacteria becomes increasingly immune to conventional antibiotics.
Honey can affect the way doctor’s deal with patient’s wounds. Honey could become an easy way out of a nasty looking ulcer so you don’t have to have an operation. This is definitely a change for the better because it provides us with an easier way to heal certain wounds without going through such an extensive process. Honey could very likely become a new medical practice.

1 comment:

L. Baker said...

This is a very interesting article because I've never heard that honey can heal ulcers for diabetics. This shows how technology keeps on improving throughout the years.