Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Bishara | Honey Heals_ Surprising Medical Miracles from Honduras

16 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD recounts a clinical anecdote from a mission hospital in Honduras where locally used honey was applied to diabetic foot ulcers as an antimicrobial dressing. According to the speaker, honey prevented infection, allowed preservation of extremities that might otherwise have been amputated in higher-resource settings, and was used after removal of dead tissue—even when maggots/worms were present.

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Yeah. When I was in. I was at a mission hospital in Honduras and we had a lot of diabetics down there. One person actually came in with really bad diabetic foot ulcer. We actually used honey on the diabetic wound as an antimicrobial. It actually kept it from getting infected. It was such an amazing medicinal. That was used locally down there. Yeah. Here. We would have actually amputated some of these extremities and they. People come in, they put honey on. They'd actually. If they had. If they had actually worms in the dead tissue, they just leave it alone. They'd remove the dead tissue, then put honey on.