Honey applied topically on the sore will heal the sore
very fast.

I can't think of a better choice then honey for that matter.

Manuka honey, wild flower honey etc.

Perl Molson

The Healing Power of Honey
   

   As an infant hidden away in a cave, the Greek god Zeus was kept
alive by bees that fed him honey. In return for their hospitality,
Zeus gave bees high intelligence. But honey is not just mythological
nourishment for the gods. Actual Egyptian medical texts dating from
2600 to 2200 BC mention honey in at least 900 remedies. Many early
cultures hailed honey for its sweetness, nutritional value, and its
topical healing properties for wounds, sores, and skin ulcers. During
wartime, honey was used as an antiseptic for wounds by ancient
Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Chinese, and modern Germans as late as
World War I.

   

   Today, people use honey for cough preparations, to induce sleep,
cure diarrhea, and treat asthma. From a scientific standpoint, there
have been numerous studies over the last 20 years verifying the power
of honey to heal wounds and topical ulcers. An analysis of 40 cases
showed that honey used on wounds had a positive effect, with an 88
percent healing rate. Other studies demonstrate the effectiveness of
honey in treating Helicobacter pylori, bums, and senile cataracts
among others. A recent study showed that commercial honey applied to
surgical wounds in mice appeared to impede tumors that researchers
attempted to subsequently implant in the mice for cancer research.



   Three key ingredients in honey are responsible for its
wound-healing capabilities. Honey has high sugar content. Sugar
absorbs moisture in wounds, making it difficult for bacteria to
survive.

Many kinds of honey are high in hydrogen peroxide, a common household
disinfectant. Honey also contains propolis, a compound in nectar that
can kill bacteria.

   

   Honey is not just useful as a topical. Manuka honey, produced when
bees feed on a type of flower in New Zealand, appears to kill the
bacteria that causes stomach ulcers. Honey may also treat diarrhea.
Doctors have traditionally used sugar to treat diarrhea as it replaces
fluids and essential minerals. A honey solution may prove to be more
efficacious because it may also be able to kill problem bacteria.

http://www.naturetech.com/healthyes.html

Facts Supporting the use of Honey in Wound Care
The antimicrobial property of honey has been recognised for over 80
years, and has been studied by numerous microbiologists since then7.
The high sugar content of honey is itself sufficient to inhibit the
growth of bacteria and fungi, but this action is lost when the honey
becomes diluted, as when lymph seeps out from a wound or ulcer into a
honey dressing. But honey contains other antimicrobial components as
well. In most honeys the major antimicrobial activity is due to
hydrogen peroxide. This is produced by the action of an enzyme in
honey. The enzyme is inactive until honey becomes diluted as honey
contains an inhibitor of this enzyme. Thus levels of hydrogen peroxide
never get high enough to cause any harm to the wound tissues. It is
not possible to get too high a level of hydrogen peroxide produced
from honey – the rate of production is near flat over a very wide
range of concentrations of honey solutions due to the strong
inhibition in high concentrations of honey. Honey also effectively
gives a "slow-release" delivery of hydrogen peroxide, as the enzyme
keeps on producing hydrogen peroxide over at least 24 hours.

The glucose oxidase enzyme in honey that is responsible for the
production of hydrogen peroxide, is very easily inactivated by
exposure to heat. Even prolonged storage of honey in warm conditions
will cause substantial inactivation. The enzyme is also inactivated by
exposure of honey to light. There may additionally be some
plant-derived antimicrobial action from components of the nectar
sources of the honey, but this is usually minor. However, research in
New Zealand and Australia has found that some Leptospermum species
give honey a high level of antimicrobial activity due to an as yet
unidentified plant-derived component8. This is potentially very
useful, as an enzyme present in serum and tissues, catalase, breaks
down hydrogen peroxide. Thus some (maybe a lot) of the hydrogen
peroxide produced from honey on a wound may be rendered ineffective,
making the other antimicrobial components of greater importance.
Microbiological research on this antimicrobial component has shown
that it is particularly effective against Staphylococcus aureus, the
most common wound-infecting pathogen. A typical Leptospermum honey,
with catalase added to remove all hydrogen peroxide, could be diluted
more than fifty times and still completely halt the growth of
Staphylococcus aureus9. A similar effectiveness was seen with a
typical Leptospermum honey when tested against a collection of strains
of multi-resistant S.aureus, and a 10 to 20-fold dilution gave
complete inhibition of twenty strains of Pseudomonas isolated from
infected wounds11.

Very large differences have been found to occur in the potency of the
antimicrobial activity of honeys12. This has been found to be mostly
due to differences in the amount of hydrogen peroxide that is
produced. But in Leptospermum honeys, very large differences also
occur in the plant-derived antimicrobial component8. Therefore, it is
important that honey to be used as a wound dressing, has had its
antimicrobial activity tested to ensure that it is at a high level.

http://www.medihoney.com.au/the_antimicrobial_activity_of_honey.htm

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