Extensive Benefits of Manuka Honey on Your Health

This sweet liquid gold made by the alchemy of bees has been valued as a natural sweetener long before sugar became widely available and its benefits go beyond its delightful taste. Honey is truly exceptional and made even more extraordinary by the process with which it is made.

As per Healthy Food House, Manuka trees (Leptospermum scoparium) grow almost unique in the Eastern Cape region of New Zealand, well known for its very good natural environment.

Manuka honey is produced from the nectar collected by bees off manuka bush. Labeled as a "Superfood", the manuka honey contains a unique set of antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, antiseptic, digestive, antioxidant, overall health properties.

For years, the manuka honey has extensive advancement for the health. Native Maori fo New Zealand used it primarily as a native medicine. They think highly of the manuka honey for its medicinal favors (for the treatment of flu, fever, colds, skin diseases, ulcers and believe it or not it manuka honey can be used for treating some types of cancer).

During the discovery of New Zealand by Captain James Cook, its natives gave him a drink from the spiny leaves of the Manuka, and later, he wrote in his journal:

"Manuka leaves are used by many of us as tea, which has a very pleasant bitter flavor and aroma, but loses both when the leaves are dry."

Genuine medical manuka honey is sold with a "UMF" label according to Dr. Ralf Schlothauer, Ph.D., at Comvita, New Zealand's largest supplier of medical Manuka Honey. This marks that the honey contains "unique manuka factor." This unique factor is a concentration of antioxidant phenols that restrain bacterial growth as claimed by Dr. Schlothauer. Hence, check out the jar of Manuka honey has an authentic label, advertising its certification in special UMF (unique manuka factor) before buying it.

Not only it has special enhanced healing properties that cannot be found in other honeys, but it often has a better effect than the conventional drugs as well.

Compared to any regular honey, manuka honey is usually more expensive. It has a better effect than the typical drugs and its amazing healing properties is higher which cannot be found in other regular ones.

Doctors confirm that its high sugar substance makes a waterless domain environment in which the bacteria that are contaminating a wound are not able to survive. In the same way, due to the existence of an enzyme called glucose oxidase, it is acidic, which apparently which clearly adds to its remarkable antibacterial properties.

Another reason why manuka honey is a superfood is because it serves as an anti-inflammatory agent. It helps in the development of new blood capillaries and gives supplements, improving the recovery of new skin cells. Furthermore, several studies published in the journal Food Chemistry and the journal Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, unique proteins called arabinogalactans that enhance immune activity and the release of anti-inflammatory cytokines when applied to the wounds are generously found in manuka honey.