Hello Steemians, today is another of our journey into nature’s golden nectar.
We will be looking into why honey has lost his value in our contemporary lives. Honey as we talked about was a major sweetener used by people till the 19th century, but then its use went down as new and alternative ones came to the picture. Some of the new and alternatives to honey were sugar which came from sugarcane, agave nectar, maple syrup and molasses. Despite its decline as a sweet syrup, honey was still used as a healing agent for some time. Poultices with honey were used to heal soldiers’ wounds in the first two world wars with good success rates.
But our precious honey could not compete with the fast progress of modern medicine and the wide introduction of almost ‘miraculous’ antibiotics in the 1950’s, which could treat almost any bacterial infection, which slowly ended the use of honey as a common household and hospital remedy.
However, due to the liberal use of antibiotics which has led to antibacterial resistance, medical practitioners have picked an interest on using honey again as an antibiotic and a healing agent.
