Clinical Observation on Local Application of Honey on Wounds and Burn.Wounds / 中医杂志

ABSTRACT

1363 cases of wounds and burn wounds wastreate withtopical application of bee honey with an average thera-peutic course of 14.5 days.the total effective rate be-ing 97.5%.When comparison made with 635 casestreated by antibiotics,the results were significantlydifferent.Observations revealed that bee honey pos-sesses the actions of nourishing the wounds,antiin-flammation,antimicrobe,absorption and decrease ofexudation,improvement of healing.