Honey has been used for treating infected wounds for at least two millennia. In c.50 AD, Dioscorides once described honey as being "good for all rotten and hollow ulcers".[cite this quote] Medical science has established that honey has an inhibitory effect to around 60 species of bacteria including aerobes and anaerobes, gram-positives and gram-negatives.[citation needed]
Manuka honey, like other honeys, has an antibacterial property due to the release of hydrogen peroxide which can kill bacteria. Unique to the Leptospermum species of plants, honeys made from these plants contain other non-peroxide compounds with anti-bacterial properties.
Manuka honey
Manuka honey
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