Applied to burns, Sidr healed faster than two pharmacy creams
1st of 5
ahead of both pharmacy creams
Sidr honey healed wounds faster than the other two honeys and faster than both commercial creams.
What they did
Researchers compared three honeys — Sidr, thyme and spring — against two commercial wound creams, Mebo and Fusidin, on burns and chemical wounds, measuring how quickly each closed.
What they found
Sidr honey healed wounds faster than the other two honeys and faster than both commercial creams.
ranked order — first is fastest
Honey applied to wounds is not folk medicine at the fringe — medical-grade honey dressings are a recognised product category with regulatory clearance in several countries. What this study adds is a direct ranking of Sidr against alternatives.
Across both burn and chemical wounds, the order was the same: Sidr first, then thyme and spring honey, then the commercial creams. The reduction in wound area against controls was statistically significant.
Sidr coming first among the three honeys is the finding that matters here — it suggests the difference is not simply that honey is sticky and sweet.
What this study does not show
- Rabbits, not people.
- This is honey applied to skin. It says nothing whatsoever about eating it, and our honey is sold as a food, not a wound dressing.
- Medical wound care uses sterilised, medical-grade honey. Food honey is not sterile and is not a substitute for proper treatment of a real wound.
- One study, one laboratory, not independently repeated.