Honey has been found to work wonders on burns on human bodies. Studies that have been done over the years have found out that patients with mild or moderate burns and wounds healed faster when honey was applied, faster than most other dressings. However, researchers warn that still there are more researches to be done, before honey can be recommended as a suitable and ideal dressing for burns. For example one study showed that a honey dressing used under bandages did not necessarily increase leg burns or ulcers healing after a period of 12 weeks.

Honey has been used for ages to treat wounds and burns. Although science is yet to determine what makes honey effective as a burn dressing, researcher try to concentrate on the antibacterial activities of the various varieties of honey. Honey has been found to heal, apart from burns, ulcers and other wounds that take long to heal.

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