Anatolian Current Medical Journal

Yazarlar: Ali Korhan SIĞ

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Medicinal honey,Honey-bee products,Biopharmaceuticals,Wound dressing,Chronic wound care

Özet: Utilities of honey-bee and its products have been always a moot point in medicine. Honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, bee venom and beeswax are all in a different chemical composition and efficiency. Even though honey itself has a great potential of both local and systemic medical usage, nowadays, honey dressings and honey itself are involved in routine medical procedures especially for chronic wound care and plastic surgery. In clinical research studies about natural honeys obtained from various climatic and geographic conditions; its acidity, hydrogen peroxide content, osmotic effect, nutritional and antioxidant contents and many other research-phase contents were observed to have antibacterial effect, immunomodulatory effect, increasing effect on wound healing and epitelization and decareasing effect on scar formation,. However, its pharmacological activity, potency and ingredients strongly vary according to climatic and geographic conditions, storage method, bee species and pre-usage processings on honey. In addition, risk of contamination is a major problem. So, it is hard to state that every honey is suitable for medical purposes and medicinal honeys must be pre-processed before its medical usage.    

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