GERMAN RESEARCH COULD BOOST HONEY NEUTRACEUTICALS
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS from Bonn University, Germany, have staged medical trials proving that certain honeys have strong medicinal qualities. It has fused two special honeys to treat skin injuries on children whose immune systems have been weakened through cancer therapies. Claiming the honey has hastened healing in these cases, Kai Sofka, wound specialist at the university's children's clinic said: "Dead tissue is rejected faster, and the wounds heal more rapidly." Bonn's 'medihoneys' include one rich in the enzyme glucose-oxidase, which converts ...
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