Sooner or later, everyone has to resort to wound healing agents . Someone costs Vishnevsky ointment, familiar from childhood, someone uses new developments of pharmacology, such as: Actovegin, Vulnuzan, Betadin. This article will focus on honey-based products that you can prepare yourself.
Everyone knows how useful honey is for viral and catarrhal diseases - both as an additional treatment and as an independent one. But honey, in addition, has excellent cosmetic and medicinal properties for external use and is widely used in order to produce healing ointments. Honey exhibits a strong antibacterial effect and gently and painlessly contributes to the treatment of open chopped, lacerated and cut wounds.
External use of honey in ancient times
Ancient doctors used honey to heal wounds , although they came to this experimentally, not fully understanding the essence of the action of this product. But they managed with the help of honey to prevent the emergence of terrible diseases: gangrene and tissue necrosis. Documentary evidence of this has also been preserved. It is known, for example, that honey for the treatment of wounds was used in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
How to treat wounds with honey?
Today it has already been proven that healing ointments based on honey give a powerful effect that can be compared with the effect of antibiotics. Moreover, it is absolutely harmless, regardless of dosage.
The treatment method is the same as when using medicinal creams and ointments. First, the wound is thoroughly washed, cleaned of foreign substances, then honey is applied. Depending on the wound surface and the depth of the wound channel, the thickness of the honey may be more or less. Lubricate a small scratch slightly, and thoroughly fill the deep wound. Then apply a regular sterile dressing.
How to quickly stop blood at home?
If blood flows from a wound, there is one very simple and affordable remedy. There is coffee in almost any home, and at work. So, in order to stop the bleeding, it is enough to sprinkle the wound with powder. It will not irritate the skin, there will be no pain. And the blood will clot quickly. And then it is already possible to start washing and further actions.
Using healing ointments based on honey, you need to remember another interesting property: honey “draws” purulent discharge from the wound. Therefore, the bandage must be changed on time, each time washing the wound and applying a new layer of honey.
Burn treatment
Healing ointment for wounds with burns helps very well if bee honey is present in it. Wounds under a honey bandage heal very quickly, leaving virtually no residue if the burns are not very severe. Such recipes using beeswax and honey are great for these purposes:
- on one part of the wax add the same part of sunflower oil and mix gently in a water bath (without overheating, 15 minutes), the finished composition is applied to the burned areas of the skin;
- 30 grams of fish oil (if not in the pharmacy, then you can buy vitamin capsules) and 80 grams of honey are mixed thoroughly until a homogeneous mass, the simultaneous bactericidal effect and the presence of vitamins contribute to a very quick healing of burns.
Treatment of skin diseases with honey
Honey is an indispensable tool in the treatment of many skin diseases. Healing ointments based on it treat furunculosis, eczema, neurodermatitis, dermatitis. It’s easy to prepare such products yourself or buy ready-made ointments (Prolidoxide, Tentorium, Vundekhil) and propolis tinctures in a pharmacy and use them in the form of lotions, compresses and dressings. Many people think that it is simple enough to disinfect a wound or a burn site, but neither iodine nor zelenka, for example, helps in any way to regenerate damaged tissues, and honey contributes to their quick recovery.
In addition to honey, extracts of certain plants and fats are added to wound healing ointments for people, in addition to honey. Often, pork lard is used for these purposes, nettles and spruce resin are added from plants. All this contributes to the rapid restoration of the skin with minimal consequences.