Honey is a powerful antimicrobial agent with a wide range of effects. Various components contribute to the antibacterial efficacy of honey: the sugar content; polyphenol compounds; hydrogen peroxide; 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds; and bee defensin-1. All of these elements are present at different ...
As honey is harmless to tissues and would leave no undesirable residues in milk, it would be of interest to now evaluate it therapeutically in clinical mastitis. 展开 关键词: honey mastitis antibacterial DOI: 10.1080/00288233.1997.9513276 被引量: 29 ...
Honey is a popular natural product that is extensively used in the treatment of a broad spectrum of injuries, in particular chronic wounds. It has been suggested that honey exerts its wound healing properties through its antibacterial action. The antibacterial activity of honey was recently fully ch...
Honey is a common sweetener in teas and other foods; yet few are aware of its medicinal uses. Honey contains antimicrobial agents and has a history of being used topically to treat burns and wounds, both anciently as well as more recently by modern-day homeopaths.1According to Massaro ...
Controls for fractionation of the volatile compounds were also done with all honeys: honeys were heated for 2 h without vacuum and no effect on the antibacterial activity was seen.Stefan Bogdanov
This indicates that non-peroxide antibacterial activity in manuka honey is not likely to be due to residual hydrogen peroxide. Introduction Manuka honey is derived from the manuka tree (Leptospermum scoparium) a native of New Zealand. All honeys contain peroxide, which imbues them with antibacterial...
In March 2008 The New Zealand BeeKeeper published an article Professor Peter Molan wrote, explaining why consumers are being misled by it being claimed that displaying the level of the active antibacterial component of manuka honey shows them the antibacterial activity of the honey. But it is still...
There is a paucity of evidence to guide the best strategy for prevention of peritoneal-dialysis-related infections. Antibacterial honey has shown promise as a novel, cheap, effective, topical prophylactic agent without inducing microbial resistance. We therefore assessed whether daily application of honey...
Today the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant microbial species has flagged the critical need for other more effective antibacterial substances. Many studies on honey have drawn comparisons with the activities of conventional antibiotics and proven the antibacterial activity of honey and its effective...
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