Natural treatment for lung infections

Natural treatment for lung infections

Many people become infected with hard-to-treat lung infections, but there is hope for a new treatment based on antibacterial honey.

Researchers considered the possibility of employing the properties of manuka honey, which is formed by a species of bee that feeds on tea tree flowers, is particularly effective.

Manuka honey, along with hydrogen peroxide chemicals found in all types of honey, also contains an antibacterial compound.

Laboratory model of lungs

In addition, researchers pulled samples of Mycobacteria from 16 patients, and they were placed in a laboratory model of the lungs.

They then used sprays that produced a good spray of inhalable liquid, containing a combination of manuka honey and a commonly used antibiotic called amicacine.

Indeed, the combination eliminated bacteria, requiring an amicacine dose of 2 ug per millilitre, while the usual effective dose was at least 16 ug per millilitre when the drug was administered by conventional means.

Experiments in human beings

By combining a perfectly natural ingredient such as amicacine with manuka honey, one of the most important drugs in treating toxic mycotoxic abscess bacteria, a possible way was found to kill this bacteria with a drug eight times less than before.