(15 May 2012, 17:32)bigpaul Wrote: Honey can be used on any wound of any sort, good for burns as well, Manuka honey is very good but its expensive, if you can find someone in your area who keeps bees then the more local to you the honey is produced the better it is supposed to be.
Two "yucky" examples of high sugar fixes for you.
An expedition medic told me that he had once used boiled golden syrup (Tate & Lyle sort of thing) when a guy picked up an infection in a leg ulcer which antibiotics wouldn't touch.
Two weeks later and the ulcer was bug free and healing well.
He also told me about a case where an infected bullet wound was "cured" because of maggots. They eat the bad stuff and were washed out (with alcohol) when pain started again i.e. they started to eat good flesh. The hole was then packed with sugar 3 times a day. 1 month later, large scar but all healed.
Got to love these field recipes for when all else fails.
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