Manuka Honey Overview
The Honey, which is obtained by the manuka plant, is known as Manuka Honey. It is sourced from the beans of the manuka plant. Manuka plant is founded in New Zeeland. It can also be obtained from the Jelly bush and Golden Tea Tree, which is found in Australia.
Manuka Honey has a unique manuka Factor, which acts as antibacterial and can use to prevent bacterial effects. In the mid-1980s, it was tested against different bacterial species to check its effects.
Manuka Honey and commercial Honey are different from each other. Commercial Honey is also known as regular Honey which is obtained by heating honey at a high temperature known as pasteurized and then filtering is done by further heating it. This Honey is sourced from any plant, the flower also including manuka plant. If you deliberate with the color of regular Honey, then you must know that it has a smooth and uniform color.
If we generally talk about Honey, then history is evident that it is used as a medicine. It is used to heal wounds, remove infections from the skin. All of that is possible due to its antibacterial nature. Therefore, Manuka Honey is referred to as medicinal Honey.
Benefits of manuka honey
Wound healing
As discussed above, manuka honey acts as antibacterial, so the medical team approves that it can be used to treat the wounds of burns and boiled. The reason behind is that several types of research have proved that Honey enhances the healing of wound and help in growing the tissues of the body. It is also used to decrease the pain of wounds.
Manuka honey mask
Manuka honey is used to make face masks known as manuka honey masks. Manuka honey mask kills the bacteria and infectious germs. Thus, it is beneficial for humans as it prevents them from a lot of infectious diseases.
Digestive System Improvement
Manuka honey includes the antioxidant ingredients. Therefore, it is used to reduce and cure inflammatory bowel disease and made effective treatment. Manuka honey also boosts up the immune system, which results in the form of your good health maintenance.
Skin improvement
Manuka honey is also used to improve the skin appearance of your face. The reason behind this is that it balances the skin pH level, which cleans the skin. The effect of local inflammation caused by the red pimples can be reduced by the manuka honey due to its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory nature.
Cons of Manuka Honey
Some of the disadvantages of manuka honey are the following.
Diabetes Patients
Not only manuka honey, but all type of Honey may affect the patients of diabetes. The reason behind this is that manuka honey contains a very large amount of natural sugar so, if diabetes patients take manuka honey or any other, then it is possible that they can affect the bold sugar levels.
Honey Allergists
People having any type of allergy from bees or any other thing may face the allergic reaction after taking the manuka, Honey.
Manuka Honey vs. regular Honey w.r.t cost
Manuka honey sources are manuka plant, scarce and from such other natural plants in the New Zeeland. It is unique due to its properties, which it holds. But manuka flower or other resources from which it is obtained have minimal crop production within a year and are harvested through Helicopter due to its sensitive nature. Thus, all these factors increase their cost. Therefore, manuka honey prices in Pakistan are much more than that of regular Honey.
Conclusion
As discussed above, manuka honey is safe and good for the majority of people. But it does not include suites to some specific people suffering from particular diseases. Also, manuka honey is very expensive as compared to the other regular Honey, but it is a unique type of Honey. Thus, we conclude that manuka honey has beneficial properties and holds an effective treatment strategy.