why do i keep honey in my bathroom?

for MANY reasons. it's medicinal. yes, it is. plus it's great for your skin too. if you have a red spot or a blemish or a cut or burn, just dab a bit of honey on it (overnight). i've never tried manuka honey - well, i'd never even HEARD of manuka honey until i read this article.

(by the way, i also believe if you take a tablespoon [give or take] of honey every day - you develop a resistance to many allergies. PLEASE NOTE, HONEY SHOULD NOT EVER EVER EVER IN A KAZILLION YEARS BE GIVEN TO BABIES - EVER. they could have a severe reaction to it).

Sweet Salve
Could Honey, an Ancient Remedy, Make a Comeback in Contemporary Wound Care?


By Eric Frederick Trump Special To the Washington Post

For biochemist Peter Molan, honey's ancient power to heal is not a matter of faith. So sure is he of the science behind it that he frequently applies the stuff of his research on himself -- and on his wife.
"She had a persistent boil on her buttocks," he explained. Since no standard salves had helped, he liquefied a dollop of a particular variety of honey known as manuka in the kitchen microwave, poured it over gauze and applied it.
The molten honey burned her.
"Fortunately, manuka is effective in treating burns as well as boils," Molan said cheerfully. Within a short time, he said, both boil and burn healed.
Manuka honey -- widely used for wound treatment in New Zealand, where Molan is co-director of Waikato University's Honey Research Unit -- is becoming increasingly accepted for this purpose around the world. Research over the past two decades, much of it conducted in Molan's lab, has focused on the potential for manuka to be used as an antimicrobial that may one day stand alongside such standard wound treatments as silver dressings and penicillin........

(p.s. i consider myself mostly vegan. i must say 'true' vegans would never use honey. i am only a partial vegan in that case. i also use wool to knit. again, a 'true' vegan would never think to do such a thing. i am NO saint)