It could be a grandmother’s recipe of rough efficiency, but on the contrary, honey is a great healing tool. So much so that medicine is interested in it and that some hospitals have used it for a long time to treat extensive wounds. How does honey work? How to use it on a daily basis?

Honey is adorned with all the virtues, especially in winter. Irritated throats often thank him. It is even believed that honey is more effective on sore throats than syrups. Be careful, however, never give honey to ingest babies under 1 year old.

The whole body also benefits from the benefits of other bee products (pollen, propolis, royal jelly) to boost its immune defenses. But we know less about the virtues of honey on the epidermis.

Thanks to its particularly rich and complex composition, honey acts on all phases of healing. Honey generates an enzyme which then produces hydrogen peroxide, which therefore makes honey antiseptic. It thus makes it possible to accelerate and fight directly against inflammation thanks in particular to its prostaglandins, hormones which are derived from unsaturated fatty acids.

The Egyptians already used honey to heal small wounds and wounds. They also used honey to embalm their dead.

At the Limoges University Hospital, or in other services throughout France, honey is a real medical tool. We can even talk about medicine.

Indeed, its therapeutic virtues are not limited to small wounds. In these hospitals, caregivers use the honey for more serious cases, such as large wounds that have difficulty healing or pressure sores.

The treatment with honey for very deep burns has also proven to be highly effective in the latest clinical studies. This is to say if honey is indeed a fundamental healing substance.

In the hospitals that use them, they are most often medical honeys, developed for this purpose and cleaned of any toxins. But some services use classic food honeys.

Soothes and heals burns

In the event of a serious burn, you must of course immediately consult your doctor or the emergency room. But for small burns and sunburns, you can perfectly apply honey in thick layers, protecting the poultice with gauze. In addition to the healing and anti-inflammatory effect, honey immediately soothes the skin.

Honey cleanses the skin and heals acne

A honey mask to treat acne? It is hard to believe so much all the homemade tricks, often eccentric, flourish on the web. But a daily honey mask, to be left on for more than an hour at least, for 3 weeks, offers progressive and very clear results on acne-prone skin. As with recent acne scars.

For this, use pure honey and do not add anything that could modify its composition; no lemon, no essential oil.

Against irritation

If you have any flakiness or irritation, honey is great for soothing and nourishing. In the same way, you can use it as a mask on the face or in small touches on the affected areas.

All honeys are generally healing. So there are no more results with thyme honey or manuka honey. The latter is a fashionable honey but it is not more sanitizing and healing than any other.

While each honey has the same healing power, be sure to choose good quality honey with a well-established provenance. In other words, do not use industrial honey which is a mixture – sometimes even a sweet liquid that has nothing to do with honey – and whose origin is unclear. The best is to use honey from local producers with all possible guarantees. This also applies to the honey you eat.

However, quality honeys are much more expensive. And this for two reasons, the first being the very worrying scarcity of bees. The second: the strong enthusiasm for this product which is, it is true, very effective.