A 4,000 year old natural remedy is still the most effective for treating skin cuts, scrapes, burns and abrasions and works every time

It just seems natural for a mother to reach for the anti-bacterial ointment when treating a skin scrape, abrasion or burn when her child is hurt. The rational for doing this is to control the bacterial infection that inevitably results when there is a wound to the skin that breaks the skin surface.

A visit to the doctor would probably end up with a prescription written for an antibiotic. However, almost always without fail antibacterial treatments are ineffective. The body's natural defenses are able to overcome small bacterial infections. Large infections can often turn deadly when antibiotics no longer work. It's now common knowledge in the medical community that bacteria adapt themselves and mutate very quickly when under attack from any kind of antibacterial treatment. Most bacterial infections no longer respond to drug treatment such as antibiotics. Treatment only creates a new "super bug" that adapts and begins to take over. Fortunately there is a solution but it doesn't come from your doctor.

The alternative treatment is a 4,000 year old natural remedy that works each and every time and it sits in your kitchen cabinet. Sugar and honey, believe or not, is your best defense against bacteria infections. When sugar or honey is placed on top of and inside of a wound it dissolves into the fluid coming out of the wound. This creates a hyperosmotic environment of concentrated solution within the area of the wound. Bacteria can no longer live in a hyperosmotic solution. In fact, they can't even adapt to it. It's analogous to a fresh water fish trying to survive in a salt water environment. They can't adapt and would die very quickly. The same thing is happening to the bacteria when coated with sugar or honey. It's an alien environment for them and one which they can't adapt to so they die - no exceptions.

First references to this natural form of treatment date back to almost 3000 BC. The Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the first century AD, spoke of honey and sugar as a treatment of all rotten and hollow ulcers. By ulcers he was speaking of the external open wounds that are common among certain ailments such as diabetic ulcers.

More recently Dr. Knutson, a now retired orthopedic surgeon from Greenville Mississippi, began routinely dressing wounds with honey and sugar after learning of it's therapeutic powers from an elderly nurse. The nurse suggested to him that he may want to try using sugar to heal a nasty bedsore that was nearly down to the bone on a patient at the hospital where he practiced. It was a remedy the old nurse had performed in the "old days" with outstanding success. From that first treatment years ago Dr. Knutson had gone on to treat some 7,000 wounds of various sizes and degrees of severity. It also works equally well for burn wounds. The real beauty of this treatment, besides the fact that it works, is that it leaves little to no scarring. Even severe burns heal almost completely without any trace of injury.

Wound treatment consists of applying a 1/4 inch coating of sugar (honey is messy) on the wound and wrapping it in a 4" X 4" gauze coated with Vaseline. The gauze is bandaged down on the wound and then wrapped with a cling dressing. Every couple of days the dressing should be removed and discarded the wound washed out with saline or hydrogen peroxide and a new dressing reapplied as just described.

If this remedy is so simple, cheap and effective why aren't all doctors practicing it? The short and sweet answer to this (no pun intended) is money and greed. There is simply no money to be made by big pharmaceutical manufacturers pushing a natural remedy even if that remedy is clearly superior to any known traditional treatment. It's the same reason why cancer is still treated with drugs in the form of chemotherapy and radiation even though the failure rate for these traditional therapies is abysmal to say the least and have been around for decades. 

So the next time you treat that cut, scrape, burn or ulcer reach for the sweet solution that's sitting in your kitchen cabinet.

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