Health nuts high on healing power of honey - but does it
really work?
By HAILEY EBER, NY Post, 8/14/2013
Earlier this year, Laurel Carroll was diagnosed with H.
pylori, a type of bacteria that infects the stomach. Her doctor broke out his
prescription pad, but Carroll had her own remedy in mind: honey, specifically
manuka honey.
“The doctor said I could do a really hard-core course of
antibiotics. I was like, ‘There’s no way,’ ” recalls the 39-year-old
acupuncturist, who lives in Windsor Terrace. “I was determined to cure it
naturally.”
Carroll is one of a growing number of people, in New York
and elsewhere, looking to manuka honey to treat everything from acne to ulcers.
Imported from New Zealand and long popular there and in Great Britain, manuka
honey is thought to have unique healing properties thanks to a high
concentration of methylglyoxal, an antibacterial agent, in the nectar of manuka
bush flowers…
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