Book Description
New scientific findings from around the world demonstrate honey heals chronic wounds, beats antibiotic-resistant superbugs, eliminates tissue scarring, reduces brain damage, improves memory and minimizes the harmful side-effects of cancer treatments. An easily assimilated antioxidant, honey proves more effective than over-the-counter cough medicines, acts as a natural laxative, stimulates good intestinal flora, and alleviates spring allergies. This ancient remedy has recently been rediscovered by the medical community. As conventional therapies increasingly failed to clear infected wounds, doctors started applying honey dressings with astounding success. Chronic wounds that refused to mend for many years using standard medical care costing over $300,000 suddenly started healing when treated with honey. In 2007, the FDA approved medical honey for diabetic foot ulcers, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, 1st and 2nd degree burns, donor sites, traumatic wounds and surgical wounds. Two Million Blossoms lets you discover the remarkable healing properties of honey.
About the Author
KIRSTEN TRAYNOR, M.S. is a honey bee biologist and science writer, who spent several years researching the medicinal benefits of honey. As a German Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she spent eighteen months in Europe working at the Institute for Bee Research in Celle and communicating with honey researchers and medical doctors around the world. An inaugural speaker at the International Symposium on Honey and Human Health, she detailed the historical and modern uses of honey. She is currently pursuing her PhD in biology at Arizona State University, studying how to improve honey bee health and pollen foraging using a natural pheromone signal. As a 2011-2012 Fulbright recipient, she is continuing her honey bee research in Provence, France.
Honey: Current Research and Clinical Applications
Book Description: In the last few years, with increasing frequency, modern medicine directs attention to natural products with biological and therapeutic properties and their use in clinical practice. The major arguments for implementing natural products, such as honey, are low cost and the absence of antimicrobial resistance risk. This book presents original current research and clinical results on the leading edge of honey research. Topics discussed include the antimicrobial and anti-biofilm properties of honey; possible anticancer and anti-diabetic properties of honey; immunomodulatory effects of honey on cutenous and immune cells during wound healing process; topical applications of honey and the use of honey in the treatment of burns, non-healing wounds and eye diseases. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical) |
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1. Selected topics on honey volatile organic compounds research
(Igor Jerković)
Chapter 2. Honey melanoidins: Emerging novel understanding on the mechanism of antioxidant and antibacterial action of honey
(Katrine Brudzinsky)
Chapter 3. Anticancer activity of honey and its phenolic components
(Saravana Kumar Jaganathan and Mahitosh Mandal)
Chapter 4. Honey and microbes
(Laïd Boukraâ and Yuva Bellik)
Chapter 5. Antibiofilm activity of honey
(Juraj Majtan, Jana Bohova, Miroslava Horniackova and Viktor Majtan)
Chapter 6. Effect of honey on immune and cutaneous cells
(Juraj Majtan)
Chapter 7. Possible anti-diabetic effects of honey
(Karsten Münstedt and Philipp Teichfischer)
Chapter 8. Honey and male reproductive health
(Mahaneem Mohamed)
Chapter 9. Topical application of honey
(Biswa M. Biswal and Rajan Sain)
Chapter 10. Honey in treatment of burn wounds
(Mutya Subrahmanyam)
Chapter 11. The efficacy of honey dressing on chronic wounds and ulcers
(Kamaruddin Mohd Yusoff, Zainabe Syed Akka, Anwar Suhaimi, Mohd Razif Mohd Ali and Mohd Yassim Mohd Yusoff)
Chapter 12. Honey for treating eye diseases
(Juraj Majtan, Martin Cernak, Nora Majtanova and Andrej Cernak)
0 comments:
Post a Comment