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Honey is not only good on crumpets but can heal wounds and burns.

Researchers at the Queensland Department of Primary Industries’ Centre for Food Technology in Brisbane have discovered an especially potent jelly-like honey that comes from leptospermum trees in northern New South Wales.

This honey has amazing healing effects for a variety of wounds and infections like leg ulcers, cuts and burns.

How does it work?

This honey eases pain; reduces scarring; removes odour; kills and protects from germs; creates a moist healing environment; promotes tissue repair and regrowth of skin; removes dead cells; reduces swelling; and the sugar helps remove any dirt and kills bacteria.

Honey has been used as a healer since ancient times as it is full of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants – all the good stuff. Honey is formed when bees gather nectar from flowers, regurgitate it into their honeycomb structures and fan it with their wings. Their saliva turns the sucrose into glucose and fructose, which attach to any remaining water, leaving a cocktail in which bacteria die.

Honey contains protein-digesting enzymes that dissolve dead tissue and stimulate growth of blood vessels which deliver oxygen and nutrients, creating new connective tissue.

The strength of honey's healing powers depends on the type of flowers from which the bees gather their nectar. Honey from Australia’s Leptospermum trees and New Zealand's native Manuka tree are two types with a lot of strength!