Garden fences~keeping chickens out

[Beekissed]

@Beekissed has a ex nurse that do you think of the healing properties of local honey?

I think it's wonderful for so many things, especially if unpasteurized. It's a great way to help with allergies as one can take a spoonful of that local honey each day and it's much like taking an allergy shot.

It's great for soothing a cough...one can steep an onion in honey and take some to soothe a cough or just the honey alone, but many swear by the onion.

I like it on burns and wounds and even long standing, deep wounds. They are finding out that now in the medical field and are now offering dressings impregnated with honey to manage long term pressure wounds. Charging a pretty penny for those dressings too!

It's a natural antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial and they say one can place it on a dirty wound and it will disinfect that wound of whatever germ is in overgrowth there.

Honey is known as the only food in this world that will not, cannot, spoil.

 

[Beekissed]

I've got an opinion, but will wait for the nurse to voice hers first since I wasn't asked.

Bye-the-bye, like there isn't an ex-teacher, there is no such thing as an ex-nurse unless the State throws you out. There are retired teachers and retired nurses. The skills that made them licensed, are still with them.

Amen to that, Sister!!! I'm not even really retired...too young for that. I'm just on hiatus, doing a different kind of work I guess you could say. The Lord placed me here with my mother to do a different kind of work...I'm loving it! I miss nursing like crazy but this work I'm doing now is the best job I've ever had. Every day is bliss followed by more bliss! Haven't worn a watch in 4 years!!!!!!

One day He may require that I go back to nursing and I will, no problem. Once a nurse, always a nurse. Sort of like being a mother...one can never really stop being a mother.

 

[Beekissed]

I hope you get better each day beekissed. Rest is so important. Make sure you get plenty of it and go to bed early. Drink some nice hot tea on your breaks. The garden will wait contrary to what you may think.

I love looking at all my wood chips covering my beds.

Mary

Thank you so much! I will try to rest...but...but...but..it's SPRING! Gotta get the hens into the breeding pens, gotta hatch some chicks, gotta get the garden done so I can plant cool weather crops...SOON. Got seed taters in a bag on my back porch just sitting there! Things happen fast in the spring and if you aren't first, you're last!

 

[Smart Red]

@Nyboy, of course, @Beekissed is correct about the benefits of honey. It is pretty much God's all-purpose blessing to Man. You asked about the healing benefits of local honey, though. As far as I know, the only way local honey is better (or different) than any other honey is in its use against pollen-type allergies. For that, only local honey can provide protection because each area has its own variety of allergens that get into the local honey.

 

[so lucky]

Beekissed, I'm late to the party, but glad to see you are on the mend. Don't you love that medical researchers are now finding out that the old tried and true "folk" remedies actually work?

 

[Beekissed]

Beekissed, I'm late to the party, but glad to see you are on the mend. Don't you love that medical researchers are now finding out that the old tried and true "folk" remedies actually work?

Yes! You wouldn't believe how I begged my boss to let me use honey on some of the wounds we had in our hospice patients and she kept acting like I was crazy and that it just wasn't good medical practice....and then one of our patients in the nursing home was prescribed a new dressing called Medi-honey...as was advised by the wound specialist. My boss never said a word.

 

[Nyboy]

@Smart Red your opinion always matters you dont have to be asked. Sorry about the ex thing, I have great respect for both teachers and nurses !!

 

[Nyboy]

I was told by a client, as a kid her son had terrible allergies. When he grew up he became a Dr and specialize in allergies. When he travels the very first thing he does is track down local honey.

 

[Beekissed]

I wonder if he prescribes that same treatment to his patients or goes with standard medical practice and prescribes the shots and pills?

 

[Nyboy]

Most likely honey , shots and pills.