Manuka honey - The all-round talent from New Zealand for your health and wellbeing E-Book

Detlef Mix

• Herausgeber: 360° medien mettmann
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

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Beschreibung

Manuka honey, extracted from the nectar of the New Zealand tea tree, has amazing antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and healing properties. It can be used both externally and internally. This practical book offers a wealth of information, usage tips and case studies and will help you to use your precious Manuka honey as effectively as possible. The book also includes some healthy Manuka recipes as well as tips on how to make sure the honey you buy is genuine Manuka.

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Manuka Honey

The all-round talent from New Zealand for your health and wellbeing

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Detlef Mix

MANUKA HONEY

The all-round talent from New Zealand for your health and wellbeing

Contents

Manuka honey in action for your health

A special plant, an extraordinary honey

Manuka honey – for eating and treating

Getting the best out of Manuka

Don't hold back, honey

Taking Manuka - the honey on everyone's lips

Mouth

Nose and sinuses

Inhalation

Throat and respiratory tract

Oesophagus

Stomach...

... and gut

Internal organs

Liver

Kidneys, bladder, prostate

Applying Manuka – the honey as treatment

Our skin

Wounds

How does Manuka honey work on wounds?

Burns

Inflammatory skin conditions

Oral herpes

Eye inflammations

Fungal infections

Manuka honey for pets

Manuka oil

Manuka pioneers in Germany

A to Z of uses

Recipes

Eating healthily with Manuka

Last but not least

Manuka honey – the real deal

Conclusion

Index

MANUKA HONEY IN ACTION FOR YOUR HEALTH

MANUKA HONEY IN ACTION FOR YOUR HEALTH

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away." In other words, healthy food can help you take less pharmaceuticals. Whoever coined this aphorism would undoubtedly be criticised and sued today for making unsubstantiated medical claims.

A similar fate would no doubt have awaited Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, who gave us the Hippocratic Oath that still forms the basis of modern healthcare. He said:

"Let food be your medicine and medicine your food."

I fully support this statement. With Manuka honey, you have a side-effect-free medicine that can be kept in the kitchen cupboard.

I've written some detailed books on this subject. So why am I now also producing this practical manual?

Firstly, there is a plethora of articles available on Manuka honey that seem randomly cobbled together from the Internet and whose accuracy is often questionable. Some of these claim, for example, that the Maori have been using Manuka honey for centuries – despite the fact that honey bees have only existed in New Zealand since the middle of the nineteenth century.

The original settlers of New Zealand certainly used the Manuka plant (especially its leaves, roots, bark and wood), but it was not until the modern era that beekeeping became established there.

Secondly, there is a deluge of conflicting advice, talking Manuka honey up as a miracle cure on the one hand and telling us to use it only for minor cuts and bruises and to be aware of the ubiquitous counterfeit versions on the other hand.

In fact, Manuka honey can be used for treating larger and chronic wounds, as has been ­documented countless times, not least thanks to its many years of use at the Klinik Havelhöhe in Berlin. No complications have so far been reported there.

Detlef Mix's standard work on Manuka honey (2nd. ed.)

My aim with this manual is to provide you with practical instructions and to help you get results. This manual deals with the wide range of internal and external uses of Manuka honey and how you can try them out for yourself. Tips on usage and case studies are also included, as are an A-Z of uses, how to test for quality and counterfeit versions, and a selection of recipes.

But first let us turn to Manuka honey's source of nectar, the Manuka bush itself.

A SPECIAL PLANT, AN EXTRA-ORDINARY HONEY

A SPECIAL PLANT, AN EXTRAORDINARY HONEY

Manuka was the name given to the New Zealand tea tree by the Maori. The meaning of the word sadly hasn't been preserved, but perhaps it meant "the plant from which everything can be used", as that is precisely what the Maori did.

The explorer James Cook followed their example and named the plant 'tea tree', as its leaves provided a pleasant-tasting substitute for his usual Ceylon tea. Botanists classified the plant as part of the myrtle family and named it leptospermum scoparium (leptospermum being a genus of the myrtle family). Scoparium, which means 'broom-like', describes the characteristic growth habit of Manuka.

The plant can, if left to its own devices, grow into a human-sized bush or a 15 metre tree. Mostly, how-ever, it takes the form of robust scrub that quickly colonises brownfield terrain. Outside of New Zealand, it is today only found in South Australia, mostly in the wild. This pioneer species used to be a farm-er’s worst nightmare and avoided by beekeepers.

The hostility to this multi-faceted plant only began to change at the start of the 1990s and has subsequently grown into wholesale endorsement. While the tea and essential oil from the plant continue to be appreciated, it is the honey that has experienced an explosion in popularity, ever since research was published by Prof Peter Molan, in which this hith-erto ignored honey was shown to have a powerful antimicrobial effect.

Manuka honey is a special blossom honey derived from the nectar of the Manuka plant. As well as the many healthy nutrients that every honey contains in various proportions, Manuka honey also has a special active antimicrobial element, known as the Unique Manuka Factor (UMF).

Identified in 2006 by food chemists at the TU Dresden led by Prof Thomas Henle, the UMF is determined by levels of the sugar by-product methylglyoxal (MGO). However, this is only produced from its precursor dihydroxyacetone (DHA) as the honey ripens in the combs and during the first months of storage. DHA/DHAP (dihydroxyacetone phosphate) occurs naturally in varying concentrations in the nectar, which is introduced into the combs by the bees after they have processed it. Only about one third of the DHA converts to MGO. This is why Manuka honey has varying levels of active ingredients and different MGO labelling.

Since a natural product can't be standardised, producers aim to achieve a relatively consistent MGO quality by mixing different strengths. The strengths are shown with a plus sign to indicate that the value shown is often just a minimum. An MGO100+ contains at least 100 milligrams of methylglyoxal per kilogram of honey.

DID YOU KNOW?

UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) ­describes the honey's efficacy, whereas MGO (methylglyoxal) relates to the active ingredient. The UMF needs to be compared against a known antibacterial agent. Manuka honey that has the antibacterial effect of a 10% phenol solution is labelled UMF10+. The MGO claim refers to the actual methylgly-oxal content in milligrams per kilogram of honey.

Genuine Manuka honey produced and bottled in New Zealand can be identified via the MGO symbol and the silver fern symbol. Some manufacturers still use the old term UMF instead of the MGO label. See also the chapter headed 'Last but not least' (p. 118).

MANUKA HONEY – FOR EATING AND TREATING

MANUKA HONEY – FOR EATING AND TREATING

This is how I describe the versatility of Manuka honey. It is also the title of a lecture that I have given many times to professionals and non-professionals alike.

Before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by chance in 1928, honey had long been used in medicine and surgery. Even in the field hospitals of the First World War, not only minor scratches, but also severe wounds and even amputations were treated with a mixture of honey and liver oil. However, with the discovery of antibiotics, this type of usage be-came less common.

In his Nobel Prize speech in 1945, Fleming warned of the dangers of resistance developing against penicillin. Today, the threat of multi-resistant bacteria is an extremely serious problem world-wide.