Honey As A Homeopathic Wound Care
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to
live” (Maeterlinck 317). When Maurice Maeterlinck wrote The Life of a Bee, he truly realized
the bee’s importance to our environment, however did he recognize the importance of their
honey to medicine. Many people will argue that old-fashioned treatments are less effective than
modern medicines. While traditional medicines are simple and more easily applied, in most
cases, people will still be of the opinion that modern is better. A prime example of the
supremacy of traditional remedies is found within honey, which has been proven by numerous
studies to support bodily healing of all kinds more
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Pharmacies will always have a problem with the shelf life of general products,
specifically moist coverings for open wounds. Conversely, honey has many qualities that allow
it to have a near infinite shelf life permitting it to be stored for as long as necessary to be used
effectively (Geiling). This attribute of honey grants it an ease of access allowing it can be
transported from where it is collected to where it is needed. Honey can be found in bee farms
across the globe so there is nowhere that would be starved of this medical miracle worker. Bee
farms work through a series of manmade bee hives that will function as a normal bee hive would
by producing honey from nectar. Once they have produced enough honey, a beekeeper will
come and harvest some, but not all of the honey as to not hurt the population of bees in their
On the more tangible side of honey are its many positive physical properties responsible
for its extensive shelf life. Included in these properties is the fact that honey is a Hydroscopic
substance meaning that it contains very little water but has the capability to absorb copious
amounts of water if it comes in contact with the honey (Geiling). Most microscopic organisms
cannot survive in this type of
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
The bees believed that a communist society where they owned their own means of production would be a better life for them, but as Montgomery, the humans lawyer lost the trial he warned Barry that ‘a negative shift in the balance of nature is imminent’. As it turned out, the immense amass of honey put every bee out of a job, including the vitally important Pollen Jocks and Barry’s best friend Adam. Barry now believes he lives in an ideal world where no one has to work for anything ‘I don’t understand why they aren’t happy! We have so much now’ (Benson, Bee Movie 2007). The bees realised that living in the communist society was not the ideology they had wanted, now the bees didn’t need to make honey they had no work to do, this put bee kind in jeopardy as without bees making honey they was no pollination so the flowers were dying
In the book “ The Secret Life Of Bees “ by Sue Monk Kidd , shows a lot a
they actually do. As a beekeeper, an individual has a variety of essential responsibilities that one
Bees are vital to farmers and ranchers because they’re necessary to keep their crops reproducing.
Honeybees are not natural to North America. They were imported from Europe in the 1600”s. Their honey is very beneficial to humans because it is used in so many aspects of our lives. It is used as a sweetener in syrup, candies, and medicines. In addition, its beeswax is used to make candles, wax, and polishes to name only a few. Furthermore, the honeybee is also essential because they pollinate our crops, our trees, and our flowers.
Albert Einstein once said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man” (“Einstein Once Said…”). After careful thought on this matter, this can be a scary concept to process. Millions of years have passed with the honey bee gracing the earth, and in fact, the honeybee is the only insect that aids in the production of food that is consumed by the human race (“20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts!”). Imagine going to a grocery store and there being no almonds to buy, a scarce supply of apples to choose from, and a very limited
In clinical practice, honey dressings are often used for the management of chronic wounds. National Institute for Clinical Excellence [NICE], (2016) provides a summary of evidence to suggest that there is little good quality evidence to suggest that honey, among other advanced antimicrobial dressings, is the best option for chronic wound management despite its frequent usage.
We know that European honey bee is subject to diseases, parasites, and predators coming from Asia and Africa and it is unable to control it by itself. In these cases, the beekeeper developed a sort of symbiosis with the bees, taking some products and in return ensuring the survival of the colonies, controlling diseases, parasitic infestations, and providing nourishment during bad seasons where there is
Most honey bee colonies are commercialized, which means they are grown on farms. The farmed bee colonies are then loaded on trucks and shipped all over the country to pollinate crops. This processed is used all over the world. To put it into scale a single semi-truck carries 400 bee colonies each containing 30,000 to 50,000 bees with a grand total of about 3.5 million bees (Kraus, 2013). After shipping the bees are unloaded from trucks and placed along grid lines
Bees are widely seen as an annoyance, a pest or just another insignificant bug, but in actuality, bees play a crucial role in our environment. Honeybees are responsible for pollinating eighty percent of vegetables fruits and seed crops in the U.S. Bees are important towards both our ecosystem and economy, “They are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed ninety percent of the world. Honey bees are responsible for thirty billion a year in crops.” (Bees extinct)
Worker honey bees make hives to store honey and feed themselves throughout winter when they cannot go outdoors to forage for food. Honey bee hives are made of six-sided tubes, which are the shapes for optimal honey production because they require less wax and can hold more honey. Some hives develop broods which become dark in color over time because of cocoon tracks and travel stains. Other honey bee hives remain light in color.
Bees compared to ants are one of the hard working organism in the animal kingdom, because of their hard work we should be thankful for their amazing job. For example, bees are the main responsible for pollinating. They transfer the pollen from the anther to the stigma, when they fuse, seed, nut, or fruit is formed. Must of the flowers rely on the assistant of bees for the process of pollination while others can pollinate by themselves. Bees are one of the main source of food, because without the process of pollination we wouldn’t be able to enjoy our everyday goods such as broccoli, apples, almonds and many more. Also, honey is the main product make by bees. The process of making honey begins by the bees collecting nectar from the flowers,
Methods: This review summarized previous and recent published papers of the effects of two bee products, propolis and bee venom, on the wound healing. The main results were obtained from preclinical experimentation.
Attention Getter: How many of you guys have seen the Bee Movie? Well for those that haven’t the movie is basically about how Bees have to work together along with a human to continue pollinating and produce honey in order for them to keep our environment healthy for the plants/trees to continue growing so that we can keep having those resources for many years.