Healing Australian Burns
I had an experience similar when my infant came home from hospital with Staph. Several of us in the household got it too. We cleaned it up with propolis, and to my knowledge, that girl (now 30 years+) has never had proprietary anti-biotics. If she has, it was well and truly after she left home and had her own life to live.
The medical men in the system are the very people I want to see in the event of an emergency…………… not until then either, please!
Below is a cut and paste from my latest rant as posted at several groups.
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Now that disaster is on the minds and lips of half the world’s population and great
outpourings of sympathy are flowing towards the victims of the Victorian (Australia) Bush Fires, please allow me the liberty to highlight a most poignant feature of my day which I feel is far more urgent than the arguments we are and will be having about who and what caused these disasters.
In a recent issue of the National Geographic (June2008?) I see an add for a “new” product being marketed incorporating the Manuka Honey into a surgical bandage type pad. The Honey Revolution as it impinges on our medical culture is happening, but oh so slowly.
It angers me much to realize just how much pain and suffering will occur there in Victoria (State in Australia) over the coming days, months and years as a direct result of our culture NOT using honey to treat the burns of surviving victims. Ironically, one of the fires threatened a township wherein is one of Australia’s premier honey shops, and their factory is nearby, so the help they need is so close at hand, as many tons of honey are likely to be there. And yet it is still so far away!
I use that term “The Honey Revolution” with joy, after having read the book by the same name, authored by Dr. Ron Fessenden and Mike McInnes. This book doesn’t exactly treat on honey as used for burns, but it certainly will cause a revolution and bring honey to the attention of thinking people everywhere. It is also a great joy to see such information supplied by people in esteemed positions. However, the information in the book on how to maximize the healing and restorative functions that take place while we sleep is still critical to all healing. The book, only released just prior to Christmas, is available from:
www.worldclassemprise.com
Most of the people who are not completely sold on honey as a burn dressing are those who have never tried it. And if you ask around (yes, even amongst beekeepers) you will discover that most of us in Westernized Societies have never tried it. I for one, swear by it. Right from Sunburn on through the degrees, although, thankfully, I have never been seriously burned.
One wouldn’t want to be burned, either. It must be the most terrifying way to be injured. I gave a jar of propolis cream (a product of the honeybee) to a man who still had scarring that had again turned into ulceration 30 or so years (and numerous operations) after his having been seriously burned. Surgery was again recommended and he was waiting for his turn in the queue. A few months later when I saw him again he said to me, “It worked!”
Somewhat taken aback after having forgotten what our last encounter had focused on, I replied with, “What worked?”
“That black stuff you gave me. It cleaned up the ulcer and softened the scar tissue. …………….. and I am still waiting for the surgery to be scheduled. I haven’t cancelled it yet, because I just want to see how long it will take them to ring me.”
This man is very reticent about his injury as it appears his memories of pain are best left to fade away from his mind. How much of his suffering could have been diminished had he have had access, at least in the privacy of his own mind, to the curative powers of honey and all the products of the bee hive?
There is no shortage of modern, scientific evidence to support honey in this usage. Following is a link to a very important book, containing (amongst other subjects) information on how honey works in the treatment of burns. Our mainstream society chooses to ignore this information. Ignore it to your own peril. Embrace it if you want to be prepared against the possibility of being burned, being sick or being prematurely old. It may be quite a long while yet before your Sunday School teacher tells you about it, or it gets written up in your alma mater’s yearbook. It appears to me that most of what these brilliant scientists (the Root-Bernsteins) have presented in other works is being ignored as well. It is probably true that they are far too intelligent to be in close communication with the masses, but the greatest level of “IGNORE” is happening amongst our leaders and those in positions of authority.
http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Maggots-Other-Medical-Marvels/dp/0395924928
It has taken the collective passivity of millions of people (and perhaps hundreds of years) to let honey slip from our attention in favour of more ‘profitable’ chemical substitutes. We are victims of our own laziness and love of instant gratification. Without a return in principle towards personal responsibility and the disciplines of our forebears the misery suffered by the masses will only continue to increase.
“Consensus” has failed us, and will continue to fail us. “The System” will do its best, but if we want better health, better healing and a better life for ourselves than just ‘The Average’ we will have to accept the responsibility to educate ourselves and to find our own solutions.
I for one (again!) am very tired of keeping my silence about such matters. If our Society is enjoying their pain and suffering, then let them suffer, but for the few who might step up out of the mire of helplessness, a little reminder of how to do it is worthwhile. The World Health Organization is employing lots of hard working folk, I know, but until they quit favouring the big business of the pharmaceutical companies and start telling a more balanced story, their efforts will continue to be ineffective.
As Forest Gump said, “That’s about all I’ve got to say about that!”
Cheers.
JohnS