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It has always been held in high regard as a medicine in Wales. The laws of Hywel Dda (10th century) had a section devoted to bees and mead making the Physicians of Myddfai who were around in the 13th Century used honey in many of their cures. In fact, the Welsh for physician 'Meddyg' is derived from 'Medd', the Welsh for mead.
A 300mm bottle of Benylin costs £8.95 on line, and probably more over the counter. Most of us sell our honey at around £5 to £6 for a 340 gram jar, which would probably last longer than the Benylin if used only in the same circumstances. So it is comparatively cheap as a treatment for upper respiratory tract infections.
But Benilyn will do as a tonic substitute when stuck in Warsash Maritime school with no all night shops when everyone brought plenty of gin and lemons but forgot the schweppes.
Oh yes? A few years ago I read a paper about hospitals using honey for treating wounds and bad burns. I also knew a nurse that worked at the QE11 hospital in Birmingham. She was on a 'military wing' sometimes, when things were bad in Afghanistan a few years back. They often used sterile honey-raps for various things. I got the impression that it was becoming more of a 'first resort!' Whilst on this subject I tell people that local, raw honey that is not heat treated, should be seen as much as a medicine than a nice food substance. As for the new 'plague'..........who knows what role honey could have?
and won’t listen to you. Now it’s going to be the same with honey. They’ll all be cough medicine experts. 
Lemon Glycerine and Honey cough syrup is what I gave my kids ....it tasted nice compared to the majority of cough mixtures available. It also came in lozenge form too.well I think this is going to be a nightmare. Now every man and his dog will now tell you the benefits of honey like their some kind of expert and you’ve never seen the news!! I’m just getting over the “mite experts” that tell you “there’s a mite that kills bees” like I don’t know!!! Then they insist on tellIng you all they’ve heard on the news
Funny you should say that: Just had one man and his dog tell me this morning that today's paper says honey gives you antibodies towards covid!well I think this is going to be a nightmare. Now every man and his dog will now tell you the benefits of honey like their some kind of expert and you’ve never seen the news!! I’m just getting over the “mite experts” that tell you “there’s a mite that kills bees” like I don’t know!!! Then they insist on tellIng you all they’ve heard on the news
Sadly, I am sold out apart from my blended heather honey and I don't think he would like that covid antibodies or not.
Not really - it is used quite regularly and there is a lot of research going on at the University of Wales as to further uses. In fact it was at the burns unit in Cardiff that the efficacy of Manuka was discovered/demonstated when Peter Molan a Welsh born and educated New Zealand biochemist (the person attributed with the 'discovery' of manuka's properties) sent a sample over to his surgeon brother to try on a 90 degree burns victim.
One of the scientific research hypothesis is that sterile honey wrapps are basically sugar and therefore you don't need honey. Also I don't believe sterilisation kills botulism which has a remote chance of being present and therefore it is used as a treatment of last resort. As you say, it is basically used to dry up the wound. Seems more pleasant then leaches anyway. Any qualified medics out there that can comment/verify.
