THE HEALING POWER OF HONEY on Severe Wounds

Upon further research, I found that Honey has long been known for its special anti bacterial qualities and ability to heal.

It has been used since Egyptian times and is currently making a comeback in human treatment of long standing wounds.

Apparently there are is even a certain type of honey from Queensland known for its exceptional healing ability.

The one thing that is important I discovered, is to use only pure, un-processed honey.

Heat treating honey (as they do for longer shelf life) seems to ruin its anti -bacterial qualities.

Back to the treatment of Ruby – as I lived only a 15 minute float trip from the beach I decided to use the sea to cleanse her wounds.

It became a great educational experience with regular float trips, learning to go in the sea (no waves) and to lead from another horse.

The only disaster I had, was once when riding Manny with Ruby in tow – he must have stepped on something that moved for all of a sudden he shot forward and I got dumped over the back, landing with a big splash under Ruby’s nose!

This scared her enough to want out of there so she started to head out to sea! Luckily she responded to my calls and came straight back.

After treatment with honey and salt water, they were much improved.

After a month of bandaging, there was enough healthy flesh reducing the size of the wounds, to leave them open to the air.

I continued to apply honey twice daily as she often licked it off! Even though it was summer, I didn’t have any problems with the honey attracting wasps.

As you can see from the photos, the healing was clean and the scarring minimal considering the original size of the wounds.

A few months later the scars are almost healed and proud flesh reduced.

Now her legs are healed and sound even though there is still some unsightly scars.

Fortunately she didn’t suffer any loss of movement and the tendons repaired effectively.

I have since heard of several cases (and experienced myself) where honey was used straight onto smaller cuts and they healed very nicely.