Honey Used as Emergency Wound Treatment

Vanilla Guerrilla
Lulu Sturdy, The Independent (UK), 7/13/2006

Then there was an attack with a panga (machete) on my new farm manager, Monday, when he disturbed a thief in his house. It left a chunk out the back of his head like a quarter-slice of apple. We learnt to dress the wound every other day with wild honey and gauze. The effect was phenomenal: it protected the wound from bacteria at the same time as it promoted growth of new flesh over the bone…