The use of honey can be traced back to the Stone Age. Evidence can be found for its nutritional and medicinal use beginning with prehistoric and ancient civilizations. Currently, there is a resurgence of scientific interest in natural medicinal products, such as honey, by researchers, the medical community, and even the general public. Honey in Traditional and Modern Medicine provides a detailed compendium on the medical uses of honey, presenting its enormous potential and its limitations.
It covers honey’s ethnomedicinal uses, chemical composition, and physical qualities. It talks about the healing qualities of honey, including antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant qualities. Additionally, it examines the botanical origin of honey, a vital factor with regards to its medicinal use, together with the complex subject from the different composition of honey. Honey’s antibacterial characteristics along with other characteristics are referred to inside a chapter devoted to Leptospermum, or Manuka honey, a distinctive honey with possibility of novel therapeutic programs.
Sections explore a number of medicinal ways to use honey, including its healing qualities and employ in burn and wound management. They review honey’s advantageous effects on health conditions, for example intestinal disorders, cardiovascular illnesses, diabetic stomach problems, and cancer too as with pediatric medicine and animal overall health. It also examines honey-based formulations, modern techniques for chemical analysis of honey, and also the background and reality of "mad honey." The ultimate sections cover honey within the food industry, like a nutrient, as well as for culinary use.
2013 | ISBN: 1439840164 | English | 470 pages | PDF | 45 MB
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