Peter Molan, Ph.D. explained a very interesting story about a woman who had a wound that would not heal. This woman had this wound for 20 years. No treatment seemed to heal the wound. In August of 1999, she read about the remarkable healing properties of honey. After convincing her doctors to apply some honey to the dressing on her arm, the wound was healed a month later.
Honey helps wounds in several ways.
It's thickness provides a protective barrier and the hydrogen peroxide it contains is released slowly, killing germs in the wound. Honey also makes wounds smell better, possibly because when the bacteria in the wounds eat the honey's sugars, they give off sweeter-smelling gases. Honey has also been used in the treatment of superficial burns. In some studies performed, honey has done a better job of healing than that of the standard treatment used, silver sulfadiazine. Though honey sometimes contains the spores of bacteria that cause botulism, Dr. Molan says there have been no reported cases of this bacteria or anything else in honey infecting a wound.