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A Review of Commonly Used Methodologies for Assessing the Antibacterial Activity of Honey and Honey Products

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2022
Honey, a naturally sweet and viscous substance is mainly produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera) from flower nectar. Honey exerts a plethora of biological and pharmacological activities, namely, antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activity ...
M. L. Hossain   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Honey: An Advanced Antimicrobial and Wound Healing Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Applications

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2022
Honey was used in traditional medicine to treat wounds until the advent of modern medicine. The rising global antibiotic resistance has forced the development of novel therapies as alternatives to combat infections.
Joel Yupanqui Mieles   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recent trends in the analysis of honey constituents.

open access: yesFood Chemistry, 2022
The main goal of this article is to present an overview of the analytical methodologies employed in recent years (2015-2021) to determine several honey constituents, and, specifically, those with health-promoting effects and nutritional value, like ...
Silvia Valverde   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using honey to heal diabetic foot ulcers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Diabetic ulcers seem to be arrested in the inflammatory/proliferative stage of the healing process, allowing infection and inflammation to preclude healing.
Molan, Peter C., Betts, J.A.
core   +1 more source

Why honey is effective as a medicine. 1. Its use in modern medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Honey has been used as a medicine for thousands of years and its curative properties are well documented. However, modern medicine turned its back on honey and it is only now, with the advent of multi-resistant bacteria, that the antibiotic properties of
Molan, Peter C., Peter C Molan
core   +1 more source

Honey as a Complementary Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesIntegrative Medicine Insights, 2017
The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly summarizes the best studied features of honey, highlighting it as an appealing alternative medicine.
Miguel, M. G.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Varroa destructor feeds primarily on honey bee fat body tissue and not hemolymph

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance Varroa destructor causes considerable damage to honey bees and subsequently the field of apiculture through just one process: feeding. For five decades, we have believed that these mites consume hemolymph like a tick consumes blood, and that
Samuel D. Ramsey   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Honey in wound healing: An updated review

open access: yesOpen Life Sciences, 2021
Wound healing is a complex process with many interdependent pathophysiological and immunological mediators to restore the cellular integrity of damaged tissue. Cutaneous wound healing is the repair response to a multitude of pathologies induced by trauma,
Hanaa Tashkandi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Honey: Antimicrobial actions and role in disease management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The ancient treatment of dressing infected wounds with honey is rapidly becoming re-established in professional medicine, especially where wounds are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Molan, Peter C.
core   +1 more source

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