God's Creatures Come to the Rescue!

Medical and health benefits
Manuka products have high antibacterial potency for a limited spectrum of bacteria and are widely available in New Zealand. Similar properties led the Māori to use parts of the plant as natural medicine.

Kakariki parakeets (Cyanoramphus) use the leaves and bark of Manuka and Kanuka to rid themselves of parasites. Apart from ingesting the material, they also chew it, mix it with preen gland oil and apply it to their feathers.[3]

Manuka honey, produced when honeybees gather the nectar from its flowers, is distinctively flavoured, darker and richer in taste than clover honey and has strong antibacterial and antifungal properties.[4][5] The finest quality Manuka honey with the most potent antimicrobial properties is produced from hives placed in wild, uncultivated areas with abundant growth of Manuka bushes. However a very limited number of scientific studies have been performed to verify its efficacy.

Leptospermum scoparium (manuka bush) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospermum_scoparium
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
Maggot therapy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy

An Ancient Sweet Solution to a Sticky Modern Problem
Psalm 81:16
He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.

We have all heard of "superbugs" bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus bacteria have even shut down hospital wards. Now researchers in New Zealand and Australia may have found out how to fight superbugs. And their weapon is one that has been in medical use for over 4,000 years!

Researchers in New Zealand have examined the healing properties of over 30 different types of honey native to New Zealand. They have found that honey made from the manuka bush has some powerful healing properties. As the honey mixes with the fluids in a wound, it produces a small but continuous stream of hydrogen peroxide. Being acidic, honey creates a hostile environment for bacteria. Research is being conducted using honey to treat burns, eye infections, diabetic skin ulcers and other conditions with encouraging results. Australian researchers have found that honey will even kill 100 different strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the flesh-eating bacteria! One New Zealand man who had developed gangrene that could not be controlled with antibiotics tried honey. The honey stopped the infection, and his foot began healing. (Please note that the honey available in stores has been heated or pasteurized, removing its antibiotic properties.)

Honey is a gift of God that has many uses. That it has been used on wounds since earliest times suggests that God gave the first people knowledge of its healing powers.

Prayer: Dear Father, please keep me in good spiritual and physical health. Amen.

References: Rx Remedy online, "The Healing Powers of Honey."

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[angellicvoices]

Oh come on, what on earth has this got to do creationism. Its all research by true scientists not some creationists.

[Iceni77]

I did look this up. Product honey is pasteurized, and shouldn't be to begin with. Honey is so pure that you can seriously lick it from the comb itself (reason for the forced pasteurization is due to ignorant regulations.. yadda yadda,).. Nevertheless, I'm still looking into this one.

[daggertoungeomega]

ok little buddies your time has come you will carry the the vial of the chicken at full power and the stingers of the bees guard all paths watch over all the wicked no harm shall come to you guys, let my little moopers join in and cats in the neigborhoods.

[noonespecia2007]

SCIENTISTS did the research. How come I never hear that a preacher discovered something? Hmmmm.....

[jakedevon]

@YourBrainOnReligion

"Your boldly assuming I've committed crimes"

No. I'm not.

It is not bold to consider a person to be imperfect. Are you perfect? Any illicit lies? Ever stolen? Ever hated someone?

Do you believe that you will get away with your crimes, Brent?

[jakedevon]

@YourBrain

You interpret my question of your being perfect or not as an attack?

You either think that you are perfect or you don't.

(If somebody told me "You are imperfect!", I wouldn't consider that an attack.)

[YourBrainOnReligion]

@jakedevon "Are you perfect, Brent?" Being imperfect is a crime? What the fuck?

Why are you attacking me in the exact same fashion as a scientologist??? It's the same thing! watch?v=ocw90W44Boc

Why?

[jakedevon]

@YourBrainOnReligion

"Do I believe in justice? Absolutely"

"You're boldly assuming I've committed crimes"

Are you perfect, Brent? Have you ever told illicit lies? Ever stole anything? -even downloaded music without paying? Ever hated someone by calling them a bad name when you shouldn't?

Do you believe that you'll get away with your crimes, Brent?

[YourBrainOnReligion]

@jakedevon Because the concept of good and evil is a biblical one. I am good nor evil: I am me. I do no harm to others so I consider myself a respectable person. Do I believe in justice? Absolutely - too bad there is none for deliberate liars like you.

You're boldly assuming I've committed crimes - what might those be?

[jakedevon]

@YourBrainOnReligion

I noticed that you did not claim a side, Brent.

Good people don't tell illicit lies. Good people don't view porn.

Which side are you on, Brent? Do you believe in justice? Do you believe that you'll get away with your crimes?