---- Beekeepers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >I cringe whenever I read postings of these "home medical cures"
>
> Not a "home medical cure" in my view. There is a massive amount of well documented research and information about the healing effects of honey.
We're getting off topic, but allow me to say this. Very few people go to the trouble of understanding the amount of work involved in commercializing substances with medical properties (same applies to any chemical formulation used in food production or consumer use). No pharmaceutical company ignores home remedies - they are too cheap and have too much free marketing established already to ignore them. What people fail to understand is that companies are also looking for an ROI: how often does the substances work as it's advertised? What are the side effects? What is the actual cost of producing the substance? Then add a mountain of FDA and legal work to make sure that a a product has been tested every which way it's feasible to validate that it actually does what the company will advertise it will do most of the time.
So why isn't honey prescribed commercially as an ointment by dermatologists and other specialists? Because it doesn't check off all the requirements for a product that works consistently and without side effects. People will rather believe in conspiracies then something as prosaic as "well, it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't - therefore there's too much variation to commercialize it". And that could be all it takes to put it back on a shelf, in a catalog, waiting for someone else to come up with either a different method for its use or extracting/packaging the essential ingredient(s) into a viable commercial product.
So yes, while there's some research and information about healing effects of honey, it hasn't graduated to the level of consistency and commercialization and therefore a healthy doze of skepticism is called for such "cures".
Przemek
P.S.
Of course I realize that sometimes an ROI is just too small for a pharmaceutical company to invest in bringing a product to the market, even though the product works. Given the greater interest in the population of all things "natural", I seriously doubt that there isn't a company out there that hasn't looked at the cheap and plentiful honey and didn't think about its applications in medicine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3611628/
Extract from abstract from the above: "Fresh bee’s honey is used in treatment of eye diseases, throat infections, bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, hiccups, thirst, dizziness, fatigue, hepatitis, worm infestation, constipation, piles, eczema, healing of wounds, ulcers and used as a nutritious, easily digestible food for weak people. It promotes semen, mental health and used in cosmetic purposes."
The only conclusion to draw from the above - it's a miracle drug and we should all be stuffing ourselves with it, morning, noon and evening. I especially like that bit about sugar promoting semen. I have a bridge over the East River to sell to anyone who believes in that crap...
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