Honey as Miraculous Burn Treatment

By Ruth, Singapore

What honey can do as a burn treatment has always been head knowledge until yesterday (13 April 2009) when unfortunately I had to experience it myself. Testimonies about honey as a home remedy for burns from honey enthusiasts have always left me dumbfounded with amazement, and then now after beholding what honey could do for scalded skin, I had to cry out “What it’s been said is really true!” I was so wowed by the fact that nature had bestowed upon us such an extraordinary medicine.

The incident happened during dinner time while I was lading boiling soup into bowls for my children. Carelessly, I swirled the bowl slightly, causing a few drops of the soup to fall unto my right palm, and because I was so startled by the unexpected hot sensation, I jolted and caused a spillage of the soup on my entire palm.

My very first instinct was to put my scalded hand under the running tap. The pain set in instantly and slowly became excruciating. In a frenzy of anxiety, I raced to grab a tube of burn cream from the fridge and apply it on my palm. In spite of that, the pain became even more intense, and my palm turned red. That was when I was reminded of the wonders of honey.

Frantically, I washed off the cream and took a teaspoon of honey from the jar to rub on my palm. With this, a warm sensation came on the skin. In no more than five minutes, the throbbing pain left! After leaving the honey on for about half an hour and then washing it off, my skin initially felt some numbness, but everything returned to normal in just minutes. There was not a sign of burn on my palm; neither blisters nor redness. I was perfectly well!

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Honey is an excellent burn treatment. Taking bread out of the oven one day, the bread pan slipped and landed on my left wrist. I peeled it off of my skin and noticed 1st and 2nd degree burns. Running cold water on the burn was very painful, so I thought this is the time to test honey on the burn. Upon application of the honey the pain immediately stopped. I piled honey on the 2 inch burn and wrapped my wrist with gauze and left it there for 5 days. When I removed the gauze, there was no evidence of my ever having burn that area.

Barbara Michaels, Unuted States
_{16 Oct 2011}

Sitting around the campfire the other day, an ember popped and landed on my friend's throat. She jumped about for a while, and said it was gone...no harm done. I saw the redness starting on her skin and went and got my jar of honey. She protested a bit, but as I smeared the honey on her skin, she felt immediate relief. No blisters appeared, and a couple hours later, she was still pain-free and the redness of the burns had disappeared. Gotta LOVE just plain, pure HONEY, Honey! Don't leave home without it.

Barbarah Hansen, United States
_{12 Oct 2011}

I was bitten by a mosquito. I did not have any medicine to stop ichting. But I had a little bag of honey in my purse. I used it and forgot I was ichting at all. On another ocasion, I got badly burned. Again I had no medicine with me for that. I put my hand inside of a bow with honey in it. I kept there for good two hours. For my surprise, the pain went away, and I never had burning marks on my skin. I also use honey to heal any cuts and or infection.

Ceminha, Brazil
_{15 Sep 2011}

After mowing my lawn I accidently touch the hot part of the machine on my wrist got a burn....after the blister popped it didn't seem to be healing applying antibiotic ointment and it seemed like it was getting infected and I remember reading somewhere about honey and its healing properties so I put a dab of it on the burn and in a few days it healed quickly and there's no scar left!

Mary, United States
_{1 Oct 2010}

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