Susan Jordan wrote: > Honey has the power to heal wounds because it releases hydrogen peroxide at > a slow enough rate not to damage the skin tissue. I recently tried honey instead of my normal neosporin for a fairly bad cut and after that, treated two bad burns. The cut was a knife cut to the bone on my thumb. Normally the cut would heal open, since even if I closed it, eventually water immersion or normal use would open the wound. I dressed the wound with honey and a common bandaid. I changed the dressing twice a day or every time I got it wet (washing dishes. I am domesticated). After three days, the wound had healed closed and I stopped treatment. It never reopened. I can barely see the scar, some two months later. Did the same with a bad burn, but had to use gauze pad and tape. Same results after three days. Got a samll burn on my finger yesterday (no I am not accident prone) and treated it. I did not cover the burn completely. When I removed the bandaid to retreat, the honey treated part was pink while the untreated part was red and ugly. Honey works. It really does not cause a problem with stickiness or is messy in any way. A quick wipe around the applied dressing gets rid of the excess. The honey was unheated and a mix of spring and summer nectars- clover predominant. Which leads me to a question I already know the answer to- if it works so well and is so cheap and abundent, why is it not being used in this country to treat burns and other wounds? Bill Truesdell Bath, ME