TRADITIONAL remedies tend to get a rough ride from doctors. Eye of toad and
its ilk don’t sit well with medicines that have passed rigorous, science-based
tests to show that they are more helpful than harmful. Makers of licensed drugs
can give chapter and verse on every ingredient in their medicines. The same is
not always true for alternative therapies.
So the idea that honey could find its way into surgeries and hospitals is
likely to be greeted with much mirth and cynicism. But hold on. We’re not
talking about the sticky liquid that physicians of yore claimed had healing…
