honey

it does have healing and antiseptic powers. years ago i learned to put it on minor skin problems such as blemishes. i've read about the medical field using honey for a while now. how cool is this? (then again look at aspirin. the native americans were using the same thing for hunders of years before the good ol' boys made pills and put 'em in bottles. white willow bark is what they used.

(that's why i can't consider myself 100% vegan. i eat and use honey AND i use wool in my knitting as well)

The Healing Power Of Honey
Mainstream Medicine Rediscovers Natural Infection Fighter, Treatment For Non-Healing Wounds
By LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and non-healing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature's original antibiotic — honey — is making a comeback.More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., a New Jersey company that makes medicated and other advanced wound-care products, began selling the first honey-based dressing last fall after it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum honey, manuka honey comes from hives of bees that collect nectar from manuka and jelly bushes in Australia and New Zealand......

(prior posting i did on it why do i keep honey in my bathroom?