Whole Food Honey Speeds Up Wound Healing

By Kyle J. Norton

The wound can be internal or external. It is a cut or open of skin or injury of tissues caused by the physical impacts.

Human all have the experience of an open wound at some point in their life. Most wounds are minor. However, if the opening wound that lasts more than 20 minutes and causes a loss of a large pool of blood can be an emergency.

Wounds can be classified into 4 types

* An abrasion is a wound caused by rubbing or scraping the skin against a rough or hard surface.

* A laceration is a cut or tearing of your skin in most cases caused by knives, tools accidentally.

* Puncture is a hole caused by a sharp object, due to its strong impact, puncture has been found to induce tissue damage

* An avulsion is the most serious case of wound that induces a partial or complete tearing away of skin and the tissue beneath.  

Not all wounds are the same if the wound cause bleeding longer than 20 minutes and deeper than 1/2 inches, you have to go to the emergency right the way.

In some cases, longer wound bleeding is also associated with the intake of certain medications such as blood thinner.

Treatment of a wound in conventional medicine is to reduce pain and prevent infection. Do not expect the doctor to provide you with medicine that speeds up the wound healing.

Honey, the rich golden liquid is the miraculous product made by bees using nectar from flowers.

The liquid is considered one of the healthy food for replacing the use of white sugar and artificial sweetener by many people.

On finding natural products for speed-up wound healing, researchers examined the honey in the contribution to its beneficial properties, especially in the wound healing process.

Stingless bee honey exerted a significant activity in breaking down the chain of free radicals that cause a detrimental effect to the wounded area through its antioxidant property.

The stingless bee honey sped up wound healing by protecting the wound against bacterial contamination through its antimicrobial property.

Furthermore, the tested honey also protected the wound dealing process by inhibiting the inflammation induced cytotoxicity.

Moreover, the tested honey promoted angiogenesis and oxygen circulation by its moisturizing properties.

Based on the results, researchers wrote, "The application of honey to the wound has been widely used since ancient times. As a result, it is essential to understand the pharmacological mechanism of the honey towards the physiology of the wounded skin in order to optimize the healing rate in the future".

Additionally, in order to learn more information about honey wound healing effects, researchers evaluated the effects of honey in the healing of skin wounds and particularly chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers.

Amongst the five tested honey, BL1 and BL5 honey showed the most promising healing properties due to the presence of flavanol that is already known to possess interesting biological activities.

Taken altogether, honey processed a high amount of flavanol may be considered a functional remedies for the promotion of wound healing with no side effects, pending to the confirmation of large sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

References
(1) Stingless Bee Honey, the Natural Wound Healer: A Review by Abd Jalil MA1, Kasmuri AR, Hadi H. (PubMed)
(2) Evaluation of the In Vitro Wound-Healing Activity of Calabrian Honeys by Governa P1, Carullo G2, Biagi M3, Rago V4, Aiello F. (PubMed)