10.1177/1534734605286014MOLANH NEY AS A WOUND DRESSING 5 1 Seminar Review The Evidence Supporting the Use of Honey as a Wound Dressing

Someclinicians areunder the impression that there is little or no evidence to support the use of honey as awound dressing. To allow sound decisions to bemade, this seminar article has covered the various reports that have been published on the clinical usage of honey. Positive findings on honey in wound carehave been reported from17 randomized controlled trials involving a total of 1965 participants, and 5 clinical trials of other forms involving 97participants treatedwith honey. The effectiveness of honey in assisting wound healing has also been demonstrated in 16 trials on a total of 533 wounds on experimental animals. There is also a large amount of evi-dence in the form of case studies that have been reported. It has been shown to give good results on a very wide range of types ofwound. It is thereforemystifying that there appears to be a lack of universal acceptance of honey as a wound dress