Honey Has Been Used Throughout the
History of Medicine

It contains a collection of more than 800 health and medical problems with diagnoses and recipes using the history of natural medicine and most of these use honey as a medicine to cure these problems! The best thing is they still work to this very day.

History of ancient Egyptian medicine tells us the Ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the first to actually have become beekeepers. They wrote many interesting articles concerning the benefits of honey as far back as 2400 BC.

Determining the history of medicine and how old it is, a really good place for us start would be through studying their excellent writings.

Many of today’s medical experts are now rethinking the western stance about honey as mostly simply something to sweeten our tea or to spread on bread and are now taking a long look at the history of natural medicine as their new inventions continue to fail.

Although our modern pasteurized versions of honey cannot exhibit the same healing properties as the raw honey ancients had access to, we can of course recultivate the use of raw honey for these purposes by stopping our interference with nature.

History of alternative medicine therapies are packed with facts about medicinal honey. Old wives tales are often true and yes indeed "Granny often got it right"

When you have a sore throat, did or does your mother give you a tablespoon of honey in some hot tea or make you a lemon and honey drink to make you feel better? You may have thought this sweet beverage was all about love, which of course it was, but let’s think again.

Buckwheat Honey appears to be the most popular for coughs colds and flu with plenty of scientific research backing up the claims. However, there are many types of honey that haven’t been studied yet but that scientific research is just confirming what they already knew way back in the history of medicine!

Today we have a better understanding of the history of natural medicine which has been known throughout medicine history. Today we have a few pretty modern and clued up doctors and specialists who have taken their time to research the history of natural medicine.

As we find ourselves becoming more immune to the chemical antibiotics the drugs companies spend vast fortunes inventing, we are turning once more towards our history of alternative medicine therapies.

That is not to say that some modern medicines don’t work, some do and they are life-savers, however, more and more of us are returning to the history of natural medicine in the form of natural antibiotics and the old remedies we often hear about.

We are becoming more conscious and aware that these old remedies are still effective and most of the time so very much better for our health and medical needs.

The history of alternative medicine was even recognized by St Ambrose as a cure for all types of stomach ailments including ulcers which are now know to be caused by the bacterium known as H Pylori.

Further interesting facts about the history of medicine now the benefits of honey have been re-discovered include that honey is completely natural with no added chemicals. This is a blessing in disguise for those of us who prefer alternative, naturopatic and natural health remedies.

Hippocrates who wrote the Hippocratic Oath which our modern doctors still abide by is perhaps the most famous ancient doctor we have heard of. He has a place in the history of medicine; we could learn an awful lot more by studying his writings.

John Hill was a honey merchant way back in the history of honey. In 1759 he noted that many patients as they got older developed nasty, hacking coughs.

His recommendation was to eat a spoonful of honey each morning and night which of course worked and still does to this very day. He too deserves a mention in the history of natural medicine.

Dr Peter Molam at the Waikato Honey Research Unit who has been added to our medicine history books with his dedication to alternative medicine.

He also writes "The problem of antibiotic resistance has been widely disseminated by the media in recent years. Time, Newsweek and other magazines have run stories on the subject, as have the television networks.

There is no need to document the problem here, but two quotes from a 1997 article are illustrative. Dr Lucy Tompkins of Stanford University Medical Center and chairwoman of a conference covering the subject stated The Horse is really out of the barn.

We have not been nearly vigorous enough in policy and process to implement the systems needed to prevent wide-scale, antibiotic overuse.

Dr Jon Rosenberg, medical epidemiologist with the Emerging Infections Program of the California Department of Health Services, put it this way.

"We're scraping the bottom of the barrel. This diminishing effectiveness of vancomycin is predictive of future increases in serious infection, unless measures are taken to prevent the spread of this resistance".

The history of medicine recognized medicinal honey hundreds of years ago and today it may just challenge those of modern but often poisonous concoctions we feel obliged to take.

The best thing about the history of natural medicine is the ancients and now us really don't have to do very much to get at it, except maybe coax a few bees away from their bee hives for a while.