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Topic: As learned today - Honey as antibacterial agent?
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Serenak
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posted October 04, 2005 09:06
I think you might find the Ancient Egyptians et al were well aware of that fact (well the benefits of honey for dressing wounds anyway...)
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Grummash
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posted October 04, 2005 10:22
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I think you might find the Ancient Egyptians et al were well aware of that fact
and they used to turn up naked, with beer ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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posted October 04, 2005 11:12
Wouldn't that be naked with mead?
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Grummash
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posted October 04, 2005 14:19
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Wouldn't that be naked with mead?
Sounds like a plan...
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Rhonwyyn
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posted October 04, 2005 14:22
I don't know.... something like that could get you into a very sticky situation! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Grummash
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posted October 04, 2005 14:32
that was rather the idea
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The Famous Druid
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posted October 04, 2005 14:45
Beats bathing in crocodile blood
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posted October 04, 2005 17:02
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Originally posted by The Famous Druid:
Beats bathing in crocodile blood
I don't know...
Couldn't honey be essentially defined as a concentrated combination of fluid from plant genitalia and insect saliva? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Rhonwyyn
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posted October 04, 2005 17:15
Probably. Isn't that why eating honey is sometimes considered not Kosher?
EDIT: Answer is here.
Point of Order: Asked and Answered.
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posted October 05, 2005 12:43
![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif) Wow, there was something to my grandmother putting honey on my cuts when I was a kid.
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posted October 05, 2005 13:16
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Originally posted by Rhonwyyn:
Probably. Isn't that why eating honey is sometimes considered not Kosher?
EDIT: Answer is here.
Point of Order: Asked and Answered.
My Wife refers to honey as "bee puke"
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Thorned0Fortress
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posted October 05, 2005 15:20
Wow. I always thought that honey was LOADED with bacteria, because of how people say that you shouldn't feed it to infants since they're ammune system isn't strong enough.
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Rhonwyyn
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posted October 05, 2005 15:38
It does have some kind of bacteria in it. Find out more from the Mayo Clinic.
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Serenak
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posted October 05, 2005 15:38
If honey was full of bacteria it wouldn't keep and certainly not 2000+ years in sealed jars in Egyptian tombs.
To make jam and other preserves you have to effectively pastuerise them to kill bacteria or they go off...
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posted October 05, 2005 18:53
Honey, especially raw honey, has clostridium spores in it. As we grow up, our immune systems learn to deal, but feeding a baby raw honey will give the baby botulism.
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guy_insane
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posted November 02, 2005 16:49
what is thaat desease you said it could give babys?
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Xanthine
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posted November 02, 2005 17:49
Google it.
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ChildeRoland
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posted November 03, 2005 03:29
He said it could cause Botulism.
(sorry, just had to say it out loud)
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Xanthine
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posted November 03, 2005 09:59
Newsflash to CR...
I'm the one who said honey can cause infant botulism, and I'm a girl dammit.
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guy_insane
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posted November 03, 2005 15:29
that is definently a srange avatar in the post above mine what is it a mouse on drugs?
(no offence ment if you are offeneded just tell me)
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TMBWITW,PB
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posted November 03, 2005 15:51
That would be a lab rat. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
And you might want to spell check your sig. "perceive"
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posted November 03, 2005 16:11
Please! Do Not Feed the Troll!!!
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I don't know what I was thinking... it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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posted November 03, 2005 16:39
It's a lab rat standing in a very un-ladylike pose.
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posted November 03, 2005 18:59
witch troll dont you want us to feed?
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