Honey has been used in healing for thousands of years.
Sumerian clay tablets discovered in Iraq from around 2,000 B.C.E.
include honey in a number of medicinal recipes, perSmithsonian Magazine.
Sumerians weren’t alone either.
Cleopatra allegedly added honey to her milk baths as a beauty treatment, according toThe New York Times.
If using honey was good enough for Cleopatra, it’s got to be good.
Poe spoke exclusively with The List about the benefits of one of their main products: manuka honey.
It is made from nectar collected from the manuka tree in New Zealand."
The healing benefits of the manuka tree have long been understood by the Maori people.
Methylglyoxal is one of the honey’s most active compounds which acts as an antimicrobial, perMindBodyGreen.
The benefits you get from manuka honey are directly tied to the flowers of the manuka tree.
The higher the UMF rating, the more concentrated the methylglyoxal.
Genuine manuka honey also contains leptosperin, which can’t be faked, perUMF.
