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Hey there,
HONEY!!! |
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At
least 15 years ago I witnessed someone dressing an incredibly ugly leg wound
on a horse. The dressing? Honey!
My thought was something like:
Yeah. Get a vet! Well
– eating crow is what I should be doing.
Just another case of if-I-hadn’t-heard-of-it-how-good-could-it-be! There are dozens of other ways to say that
but I hope you get the idea. Not an
antibiotic that comes in a bottle prescribed the vet? No way would I try something unapproved, by
a DOCTOR, on MY dog, cat, horse, etc.
Etc., incidentally, includes many, many animals. I have come a long way in those years and
now it is honey! Juliette
de Baircacli-Levy is someone you need to get to
know. Check her out on the net –
better yet read her book: The
Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat. One thing she says is: Honey is the greatest of natural
energizers. No, I really don’t know
what an energizer means but she says other things that I find easy to relate
to and understand – at least at some level! How
about this: A diet of only milk and
honey can sustain life for months in humans and animals. Powerful that. Bairacli Levy
also states: “It has been well and
longtime proved that honey is also highly medicinal and will inhibit growth
of harmful bacteria in the entire digestive tract….” There
are great varieties in honey and, of course, you really must seek out raw
honey. Raw honey contains vitamins A,
B-complex, C, D, E and K plus calcium.
HONEY? Wow! “Honey
has been a medicine as well as a food for a
millennia.” Says CJ Puotinin in her latest article
in Whole Dog Journal. It has been
prescribed, over the millennia, for such things as fevers, coughs,
allergies*, ulcers and the list goes on.
It has been, IS, applied topically (remember that
horse I mentioned?) to treat open wounds, burns, cuts, abrasions and skin
infections. Since
dogs can taste sweet (I believe cats cannot!), it is easy to use honey for
internal or external issues. CJ Poutinen comments on the success of Michele Crouse in Texas
who has had great success in relieving her Staffordshire terrier of allergy
symptoms for years. If she forgets to
give honey in a week the symptoms reappear.
She takes this one step further, as do all the supporters of honey
from what I can see, and that is to use locally produced raw honey. Marina
Zacharias, whose articles I have read and referenced for years, feeds her dogs honey and applies it
topically to cuts and wounds. She
refers to clinical trials of burn victims that indicates
honey, as a wound dressing, rapidly clears infection, inflammations,
swelling, pain and the growth of new skin cells, and so much more. Since
raw honey will crystallize be certain to apply soft, liquid honey. The crystals can be irritating to
traumatized skin. Do not microwave the
honey! When treating wounds on dogs be sure to plan a distraction activity so that the honey
has at least 20 minutes to work before the dog has a delightful time licking
off the tasty treatment plan. Honey,
bee pollen, royal jelly (a truly luxury ingredient and not palatable!), propolis, beeswax, bee venom and whose knows what else
are amazing gifts to us from the humble bee.
Learn more about them and utilize what they offer. H |