(OrganicJar) Bees feeding off tea trees native to New Zealand, produce a type of honey that’s known as “Jelly Bush Honey” in Australia and “Mankuta Honey” in New Zealand. Now, scientists at the University of Sydney’s School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences have found this particular type of honey has some amazing curative properties.
Until now, Manuka Honey has been sold in health food stores as a natural medicine. That is probably about to change. New research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at it, including the antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ plaguing hospitals and killing patients around the world.
Professor Dee Carter is one of the research team that made the discovery. She said a compound in the honey called methylglyoxal is the key ingredient to the effectiveness of the honey. However, methylglyoxal on its own is toxic but when it combines with what are, as yet, unknown compounds it causes “multi-system failure” in bacteria.
Manuka Honey Unique to New Zealand
Honey bees collect nectar from Manuka bushes (also known as Tea Trees) which grow in remote areas of New Zealand. According to Manuka Health the discovery of the anti-bacterial properties of methylglyoxal was made by Professor Thomas Henle at the University of Dresden, Germany.
The curative properties of various types of honey have been known to indigenous cultures for thousands of years, and dressing wounds with honey was common before the advent of antibiotics.
Source: theaustralian
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Sarah Wiliams | Jun 27, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for getting this information out there! Do you know if I can buy this honey?
Manuka Honey | Jul 21, 2009 | Reply
Manuka Honey is very effective and should be taken seriously as a natural healing agent.
calceolaria aka Michaela | Sep 6, 2009 | Reply
What gets me down is that the pharmaceutical lobby have managed to persuade both the UN and the EU powers-that-be to introduce legislation such as the Food Supplement Directive which stipulates “safety” criteria that the truly natural and healthy products simply cannot meet. European shops are soon to be devoid of tried and tested remedies like aloe vera, arnica, witch hazel, st john’s wort and tea tree. Stop the world, I want to get off!
Dimple | Oct 19, 2009 | Reply
Would be interesting to know how it affects viruses. Really hoping that study’s underway!
vitamin b | Jun 10, 2010 | Reply
This just sounds WAY too good to be true. if it is indeed that curable, then I suppose that you would have to find the components in the honey that turn the toxic element into a bacteria-killing element.
On top of that, I wonder if it’s potentailyl possible that it can kill good bacteria in your body? Wouldn’t that be even worse?
At least, that’s what I think. I will keep an eye on this to be sure.