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Posted by WildCondor on :

Hi everyone! Hope y'all are doing well.
Has anyone tried Manuka Honey for GI distress? The old stomach is acting up again and want to try something natural, since all the antibiotics havent helped the stomach. Thanks all!
Here is the link i was looking at earlier. http://www.manukahoneyusa.com/

If anyone has tried it and likes it, shoot me an e-mail and THANKS!!!!!

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Posted by kaos (Member # 4144) on :

I love honey. Thanks for this link. The products sound great.

Of course the abx haven't helped your stomach...the gut-rippers they are.

I wonder if mastic gum would help you again.

-greg

Posted by twoangie (Member # 1636) on :

Hey Big Bird, I don't know anything about this honey and I use Pepto for tummy problems. Obviously, I'm not here to answer your question...am I?

Actually, I wanted to direct you back over to the "feeling faint" post because I left a question for you over there and I didn't want you to miss it.

Thanks!

Angie

Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :

It's a wonderful honey - we use a lot of it.
It's also great for sore throat during the detox phase - when the voice gets a bit hoarse. Take a bit and just let it stay in the mouth as long as you can. It's antibacterial.

Have you dried freeze-dried garlic for H. Pylori? I don't have a problem with it, but I have heard our doctor using it for that.
I am pretty sure you need to take it right following a meal, not before and, not during.
Just like we used it for Lyme. We took exclusively the Pharmax brand. The Medicine Man in Seattle sells it at a discount. It is great.

The mastic gum should help! Those buggers are difficult to get rid of.

Take care.
http://www.manukahoney.co.nz/startsession.cfm?language=1

[This message has been edited by GiGi (edited 05 January 2005).]

Posted by DiffyQue (Member # 3317) on :

WC,

While I've never had this,the honey with the venom in it sounds real good; but for the price I saw 3 years ago, I'd first sting the 'shale' outta myself with bees,or git into that log of honey with the grizzlies, if the venom were my sole motive for taking the honey.

The venom has mellitin, a highly basic(pH) protein that bursts the outer and inner surface membranes of borrelia(in vitro). I don't know about H.Pylori,but the venom probably would get them too, for 'familial' reasons.

If considering the venom-spiked honey, there is a very long list of contraindications w/rt
to medical conditions, and medicines,prescribed, and OTC. All caveats are not in one place, but seem to be scattered throughout the lit. A pharmacy printer-spit-out will give a lot of info.. as would http://www.apitherapy.org,and discussion boards on BVT.

Propolis to coat bacteria?

Consider:
Neural network to stomach from spine; something setting-off nerves to signal Sx of gastric and o/w abdominal distress when there is no real ulcer if that is the case.

Possible soln. : electrical stimulation or accupuncture(pressure, needles, electroaccup. to see if this works.

Just throwing some ideas in.

Good Luck, and Sal Moobarick(Happy New Year! in India) Spelling is off here.

[This message has been edited by DiffyQue (edited 05 January 2005).]